Just on the off chance you can’t make it out to Curacao this summer, the SECORE team is bringing all the fun from its annual coral spawning field workshop to you via its blog and Facebook page. From August 12-22,…
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ORA releases new Montipora capricornis otherwise known as Pink Polyp Cap
The new ORA Pink Polyp Cap is another beautiful and trade-worthy coral added to the company’s offering. Just announced by ORA on Monday, the Pink Polyp Cap is an olive green colored Montipora capricornis with dark pink polyps. The nice contrast adds…
Massive coral reef, twice the size of Manila, destroyed in Philippines by poachers
A tragic crime that is being described as “the rape of the ocean” took place in the Philippines where poachers decimated an entire reef area almost twice the size of Manila harvesting over 21,000 pieces of black coral and killing 161 endangered sea turtles and…
Daylight soft coral spawn caught on film in the Phillipines
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”385″]http://vimeo.com/24080492[/vimeo] We’ve been lucky to follow along on the adventures of the California Academy of Sciences team that is currently on biodiversity expedition of the Philippines and have seen various postings from Richard Ross and Matt Wandell of…
Bali’s new reef fish and coral revealed in stunning detail by Conservation International photos
The eight new reef fish and single new coral species that we wrote about on Friday are already being revealed in great detail by new press photos from Conservation International. Among the newly discovered species are one Euphyllia coral, two…
Cherry Charm Paly is a large looker from Cherry Corals
The Cherry Charm Paly is a gorgeous and jumbo size palythoa with amazing coloration. Cherrie Corals started teasing this polyp strain yesterday and now their website has gone live with some WYSIWYG frags with two polyps of Cherry Charm Palys…
West Australian Corals, get ’em while they’re hot!
West Australian corals including Symphyllia wilsoni, Scolymia australis, fancy chalice corals and a whole suite of fancy zoanthids are the latest crop of hot reef aquarium corals from the land down under. However, recent satellite observation suggest the West Australian…
New Pandora XM lighting fixture T5 + LED by Pacific Sun wants to light your reef tank
Pacific Sun just announced their new T5 + LED Pandora XM lighting fixture that has Cree XM-L on board as well as the tried and true T5s. This Pandora XM lamp includes everything that Pacific Sun has learned in the past…
ORA releases new Sprung Stunner or Echinopora lamellosa
ORA has released a new coral that was named by the awesome reef building community. Sprung’s stunner is a “extremely fast growing Echinopora lamellosa that has a purple base and bright green polyps.” Like the name suggests, this coral was…
New Coral Reef Store opens up in Barcelona, Spain
If you are in Spain any time soon you will want to visit Coral Reef, a new store that just opened in Barcelona. Coral Reef has been located for 16 years in only Madrid but the company decided to open…
