Seven Seas Aquatics is a beautifully laid-out reef store with five-star reviews, but back in September 2022, it was nearly wiped out by Category 4 Hurricane Ian, which killed 150 people and caused $112 billion in damage across the State…
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California Issues Total Ban on Caulerpa: Warns Retailer of $10,000 Fine Per Violation
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife Agency has written to e-commerce company Etsy and notified them that the sale, possession, or transport of all species of marine macroalgae Caulerpa is now prohibited. In a letter written on Jan 2,…
Reef Tank Maintenance
A reef tank is not like a television. You can’t simply turn it on, sit back and watch it, and not have to interact. Like gardening where you need to cultivate, seed, and weed in order to reap a harvest,…
Flashback Friday: Steve Weast’s Temperate Azoox tank
Looking back through the archives, 2011 was quite the year for NPS enthusiasts as Managing Editor Jake Adams and contributor Joost De Vries covered over a dozen Azoox (azooxanthellate,) corals, as well as some stunning home aquariums that were dedicated…
Powder Blue Tang feeding mechanism minimizes exposure to high water flow
Researchers have used high-speed video to study the feeding mechanisms of the Powder Blue Tang, Acanthurus leucosternon. Reef fish use feeding modes including high-speed suction and biting, the former method proving key to the explosive success of ray-finned fishes. But…
Watch The Ladies Takeover Reef Therapy: Episode 91
Evie, Sara, Jen, and Chelsie are back for another episode of Reef Therapy Ladies Takeover. Offering another hour of all killer no filler reefkeeping content, the Ladies talk about everything from the difference between Caribbean and Indonesian corals, animals that…
Reef Builders Top 10 Products of 2023
We took an entirely new approach to selecting our Top 10 products of 2023, this time listing each and every product we wrote about and published during the 12 months of last year, but letting our Facebook audience decide on…
How to Make Reefkeeping Fun Again
With the start of the New Year, we all make resolutions of one kind or another. It may be to lose weight or woke out or drink less or eat better. For those of you who have watched my videos,…
Is it Okay to Name Living Creatures after People?
It’s human nature to name things. It’s part of how we label and describe items, communicate, and even differentiate one another. But nomenclature stretches to living things too, like plants, animals, and fish, and we want to know if it’s…
Interview with a Seaweed Aquaculturist
Taras V Pleskun interviews Philip John Foronda of the Philippines Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, and finds out why seaweed aquaculture is such an important industry. Please Introduce yourself and how you first got into the aquaculture industry. Hi!…
