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October 25th-October 31st Purple Purple Tang and White-barred Asfur Angelfish are not your average Red Sea imports Three eyed fish caught near a nuclear power plant in Argentina JBJ Unibody LED light is as solid as it is versatile and…

Finally get a good look at a colony of Turbinaria heronensis

Turbinaria heronensis is a very unusual Australian endemic coral which has been making it into the U.S. reef aquarium hobby for a little over a year now. Turbinaria heronensis is still so rare that many if not most of the…

Astreopora montiporina is a new species from West Papua that plates like a Montipora

The coral above is not a Montipora but a new species called Astreopora montiporina which is named after the common plating coral. Like A. cenderawasih and A. acroporina the new Astreopora montiporina was also discovered in Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua Indonesia and it…

Grube’s Gorgonian is a fast-growing and hardy new soft coral from ORA

Grube’s Gorgonian is a species of Pacific Pinnigorgia which is very rare in the hobby but it’s about to get a whole lot more available as frags from ORA. Grube’s Gorgonian (pronounced Grooba’s) has a long history of aquarium culture…

Salifert’s Coralline AminoAcids is a well-kept secret for encouraging stony coral growth

Salifert’s Coralline Aminoacids has been around for well over a decade so you would think that its amazing stony coral growing powers would be well known to all, but lots of veteran reefers still haven’t heard the good news. As…

A peak inside the De Jong Marinelife holding facility

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-VfT9Uc2MI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] De Jong Marinelife is one of the largest marine livestock wholesalers in Europe supplying anything from sharks to public aquaria to frags to Local Fish stores and they recently posted the video tour above of their holding facility. Although…

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Exhibit opens at Waikiki Aquarium

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN2ypEDoop0[/youtube] We wrote about the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands exhibit at the Waikiki Aquarium earlier this year and it finally opened in August. As the first major display in nearly six years at the aquarium, the NWHI exhibit features fish and…

Oregon blue tort show an exceptional view of acontia filaments in action

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcPD1Ajp75k[/youtube] Most reefers are aware of sweeper tentacles that are large and noticeable in LPS corals, but we don’t think about the reach of SPS corals very much. Galaxea, Scapophyllia, Oulogyra and Euphyllia all have large and long-reaching…

Staghorn Coral Tree Nursery by Coral Restoration Foundation takes a page from aquarium culture techniques

The Coral Tree Nursery is an innovative new technique for growing corals at sea which takes some inspiration from techniques for culturing corals that were pioneered in home aquariums. Now the whole Coral-Tree part is totally of Coral Restoration Foundation’s…