Jake Adams, Celebration of Life Dive Trip

This year, we commemorated the first anniversary of our great friend’s passing. The coral feast that I had planned to show him and that was left unfinished, ended up into another great adventure celebrating Jake’s coral love with other great…

Doug’s Perfectly Designed Fish Room & Stunning Custom Reef Tank

If you look up the word redundancy in the dictionary, you’ll find a photo of Doug Deurloo’s Reef. Did I mention that Doug’s reef is the definition of redundancy? Ok, I’ll stop.  During a recent trip to Indianapolis, I was…

Rainbow Blasto looks like a Master Scoly!

We’ve been admiring the Blastomussa genus of late, and especially the Large Polyp Blasto, Blastomussa vivida. Like its congeners, B.vivida can come with that classic cherry red rim with a bright green center, but then also solid cherry red to…

Top Shelf Aquatics Rainbow Indophyllia is double the delight

Indophyllia macassarensis is the rarest of the three Donut coral species, looking like a Cynarina lacrymalis but free-living on sandy substrates like Acanthophyllia deshayesiana. Side by side, true Indophyllia have thicker, shorter septa than Cynarina, with characteristic “jaguar spots” and…

Aquamarine Aquaristic is an Enviable Australian LFS

With ReefStock Australia just a couple months away our mind is daydreaming about the hyperactive reef aquarium scene in the land down under and especially the many reef aquarium stores to be found there. We wished we could have traveled to…

Coral Workshops help tell wild from farmed Indonesian corals

Corals are the most traded CITES-listed marine animals globally. A 2021 study by the Food and Agriculture Organization found that from 1990 to 2016, exporting countries reported 1.6 million direct export transactions in marine animals, 97% of which were in…

The EU Bans Five Important Australian Corals from Import

Another year, another ban, and this time its LPS corals from Australia. As of the 11th of January 2022 the import of wild-collected Duncanopsammia axifuga, Catalaphyllia jardini, Euphyllia ancora, E. paraancora and E. glabrescens is banned across the whole of…

Revised Queensland Coral Exports Approved Until 2024

The Australian government has confirmed that hard coral export from the Great Barrier Reef can continue for another three years, albeit with several caveats. In a statement by the Wildlife Trade Regulation Section, a new approval for the Wildlife Trade…

The Outstanding LPS Corals of AquaShella Dallas

Large polyp stony corals are some of the most highly variable of all species of Scleractinia so it’s always fun to peruse a curated collection in people’s tanks, local fish stores, and especially at large aquarium events. Such a conference…

What it’s Like To Start a ‘Career in Corals’

My name is Levi Peterson and a few months ago I made a decision to work closely with corals at ACI Aquaculture. I formerly worked at a local pet store and personally worked very closely with Non-Photosynthetic corals. However, when…