CorAffix Pro is a new super glue gel from Two LIttle Fishes which is not unlike Ecotech Marine’s Ecotech Elements Coral Glue. Super sticky and fast-setting super glue gel, check. $49 for a 295ml bottle with a red pin cap,…
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Striped blue and orange tube anemone shows up on Divers Den
Tube anemones are absolutely stunning non-photosynthetic animals, and striped ones are even cooler. Add two colors into the mix and you end up with the beauty currently up on Live Aquaria’s Diver’s Den. This specimen has been the third “rainbow”…
Mr. Kang’s Korean reef aquarium is a field of exquisite corals on an elegant aquascape
When we first happen upon a reef aquarium in pictures or real life, one of the first things we look for is the way that the tank is unique, in what it does well. As far as we’re concerned, this…
ReefBrite TECH LED strip light is a coral quarantine lifesaver
While spending time with the DFWMAS crew last year and getting a rare bit of time to tour around the vendor area, I ran into Joy Meadows of ReefBrite and I was blinded by her table of LED lights. ReefBrite…
Zanclea hydroid is an Acropora and stony coral parasite you’ve probably never heard of
Zanclea is a genus of small hydroids that specializes at living on other marine creatures like corals, anemones, sponges and bryozoans. About five years ago we visited a healthy stony coral reef aquarium Seattle that had some staghorn coral colonies…
Floating corallites: larvae of some stony corals take a while to settle down
A new previously unknown life-stage of stony coral larvae has been published describing how a small percentage of lab-grown coral planula can float through metamorphosis. That was not a euphimism, as some stony coral larvae have been documented secreting a…
Coral Nail from Lss Laboratory is a new frag plug specialized for soft, branching and encrusting corals
The Coral Nail is a novel new type fo frag plug that Lss Laboratory is showing off which has three separate mounts for different types of corals. Coral Nail A is optimized for mounting soft corals with a nice barbed…
Incredible ‘living pictures’ of a coral reef aquarium using a Lytro light field camera
https://pictures.lytro.com/JakeAdams/pictures/40040 The Lytro light field camera just started shipping to pre-orders last week and we couldn’t wait to take ours for a spin on the wonderful world of reef tanks, corals and fish aquariums. In case you haven’t heard, the Lytro…
Denistar from Coral Shop is a kriesel of biological filtration
The Denistar from Coral-Shop and Coral Planet is an interesting new spin on biological filtration that enhances biological filtration using the principles of a kreizel aquarium, sort of. Whereas the typical biological reactor forces water through media and a biopellet reactor…
Scientific research into coral farming yields new insight into the effect of flow, food and light
A recent scientific paper on coral farming was published by Zac Forsman and many colleagues on the effects of light, flow, and artificial foods on the growth of corals. The goal of the coral farming study was to see if…
