Fascinating footage of fluorescent corals under confocal microscope will leave you mesmerized

Chances are you are spending your Easter Sunday morning contemplating why it is still snowing outside, and how you are going to find all those eggs in a half a foot of snow. What’s a better way to escape the…

Sustainable Aquatics cultured corals coming soon

With a firm mind share of the captive bred aquarium fish market Sustainable Aquatics is now turning its attention to providing cultured corals. For the past couple of weeks Sustainable Aquatics has been teasing a variety of medium sized frags…

Phoenix Montipora from Route 66 is M. danae on fire

Montipora danae is a name that has often been misapplied to a range of montis with bumps, including superman, rainbow, pokerstar and just about any wild montipora with a somewhat bumpy surface. But here we have a picture perfect Montipora danae…

ORA’s clownfish car spotted in the wild, looks great in motion

A funny thing happened while we were in Florida last week. In addition to making it a point to visit a very special pair of fish (more on those later), we also made our inaugural tour of ORA’s impressive aquaculture…

Coral fluorescence found to be strong indicator of coral health

Temperature is an important physical parameter to all life, not the least of which corals, and coral fluorescence is really important to us reefers. As it turns out, coral fluorescence and temperature are intimately linked with coral health, in tangible…

First CoralCon aquarium conference rocking Orlando Florida this weekend

This Saturday March 16th & 17th come enjoy the St. Patrick’s Day weekend and CoralCon at the Central Florida Fairgrounds where 60 booths will feature a variety of aquarium products and live corals. CoralCon will include a raffle, touch tank…

Mint Pavona (Pavona frondifera) now offered by ORA

Mint Pavona (Pavona frondifera) is a new coral that ORA just announced as available from their ever increasing selection of corals. When looking at Mint Pavona

Win the chance to dive with the Coral Restoration Foundation team at MACNA

When MACNA rolls around, many of us start thinking about mixing in a scuba dive trip and thanks to ecoxotic, Two Little Fishies and Piscine Energetics 18 lucky MACNA XXV attendees will have the chance to dive the Coral Restoration Foundation site for free. All…

ORA Black Cardinalfish available soon, Goth Reefers pensively rejoice

ORA’s announcement of their Black Cardinfalfish may make 2013 the year of the Cardinalfish.  Banggai Rescue is slated to be published, David Watson is presenting “Cardinalfish breeding beyond the Banggai” at the 2013 Marine Breeder’s Workshop, and twice this month…

The country’s hottest coral vendors will be in force at ReefStock 2013

If you are as excited about ReefStock as we are, allow us to stoke the fire a bit more by introducing the amazing list of coral dealers coming to Denver in a couple of weeks. Short of MACNA or Reefapalooza,…