Eguchipsammia, or Micro Dendro Coral as it is more commonly known is a really cool coral that seemingly no one talks about. Eguchipsammia started showing up in the trade about four years ago where it was widely distributed as Micro…
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Hanapapa’s NPS stony corals are a dream for azoox coral lovers
We’ve covered plenty of amazing azoox reef tanks and azoox corals before, but this Japanese azoox corals in Hanapapa’s tank is on a whole new level. The azoox corals in this tank are so drool worthy that we are not…
Ecoxotic releases 18″ Panorama Pro LED lighting for smaller aquariums
We’ve known that Ecoxotic was nearing a launch of 18″ Panoarama Pro module since last year. Finally, we can say the 18″ Panoarama module has officially been released. The 18″ version comes with 3 modules including two 12,000K/445nm Royal Blue Panorama…
How to keep the Coral Reef Aquarium Gods Happy
The Gods of coral reef aquariums are wrathful. They do not appreciate any display of confidence, comfort, or excitement for the hobby. You must respect them to succeed in this hobby. Here are some rules I have learned to follow…
Time lapse video of disc and tongue corals show innate ability to survive being buried
It’s fairly well known that disc coral and tongue coral can excavate themselves after being buried with sand but a couple new time-lapse videos of Fungia scutaria and Herpolitha limax show something more. Not only do both of these corals inflate the…
Taiwan endemic coral Pseudosiderastrea formosa shows there’s still a lot of new corals out there
Pseudosiderastrea formosa is a newly described species of stony coral that is so far only known from shallow coastal waters of Taiwan. The new Pseudosiderastrea formosa is an encrusting species of stony coral which is related to the extremely hardy…
Sulawesi coral shipments are bringing new treasures from the Coral Triangle
Sulawesi corals are about to pick up where Borneo corals left off, we hope. A couple years ago there was some efforts to get Borneo corals into the aquarium trade, and that hasn’t panned out yet, but now Sulawesi corals may become…
Panorama Pro LED and Mini 38 Nuvo aquarium are a near perfect match
The Nuvo aquarium series from Innovative Marine is a hot-selling reef aquarium package which is designed to pair up with the Skkye LED tablet but it also plays especially nice with another LED aquarium light. While at Aquamart in Lakewood Colorado this…
Eleutherobia ‘Fuzzy Carrot’ coral is a new maricultured NPS softy from Quality marine
As you may have guessed the yellow, orange but most often red colonies of Eleutherobia are non-photosynthetic, filter feeding fine particles from the water column. Some species of Eleutherobia Fuzzy Carrot coral occur in shallow water but only in caves or…
Watch Luiz Rocha’s presentation on the Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes
If you weren’t able to make it to last week’s Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes, fret not because this informative talk is already up and live on the interwebz. Dr. Luiz Rocha, the ichthyologist who has described for…
