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…
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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…
LSS laboratory releases new nozzle wave maker
[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hujvbfIGFww[/youtube] LSS laboratory releases 8 unique nozzle wave makers. Some of them have some mechanical trick inside of the nozzle which create very unique wave. Some of them have unique nozzle top. The prices are between $18 and…
The Rowley Shoals is home to pristine coral reefs as well as some very unique fish
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWGkuMnc7OE[/youtube] The Rowley Shoals is a group of atolls located south of the Timor Sea, NorthWest of Australia. The undisturbed reefs of Rowley Shoals really speak for themselves in the video above. Check out the awesome male Pseudanthias tuka with…
“Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes” lecture tomorrow at California Academy of Sciences
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is presenting “Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes,” a lecture by Dr. Luiz Rocha, as part of the Pritzker Lecture series. Rocha is the Assistant Curator, Ichthyology at the academy and…
Coral-Shop aquarium products now officially available in North America via Finsreef
For the last couple of years we’ve covered the unique Coral-Shop products from across the pond first as a curious line of balling and seawater chemistry management solutions. However, as of this week the Sol additives and Profitower dosing pump…
Red Dragon Acro coming to the trade in greater numbers as Bali maricultured Acropora carduus
The Red Dragon Acro is one of the newer strains of neato SPS corals to gain popularity in the reef aquarium hobby, first as a few singular colonies and soon to be a whole lot more through greater imports of…
Outstanding Fungia fralinae could become the first captive raised strain of disc coral
Fungia fralinae is a fairly common, popular and robust species of disc coral which is more often an attractive green color with orange mouths. It is actually less common to get Fungia fralinae as an individual polyp than as the remnants…
Hands on with Thrive Aquatics vertically mounted coral frag plug tree
The Frag Plug Tree from Thrive Aquatics is an ingenious way to elegantly add more real estate for frags in an existing aquarium. Whereas most frag mounts we’ve seen to date including the Eshopps Frag Cave and Frag-a-rack are mounted…
