Montipora species are beloved reef aquarium corals for a number of reasons, their range of shapes, range of colors, and more recently for their surprising ability to acquire new colors/pigments into what the hobby calls ‘grafting’. This phenomenon is more…
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Artist Lisa “Seaurchin” Stevens Creates Vivid Clay Coral Sculptures
Coral frags captivate our attention with their bright vivid colors, and flowing hairy polyps, but their inspiration doesn’t stop with aquarists. Intricate coral textures, shapes, and colors also catch the attention of artist like Lisa “SeaUrchin” Stevens from the UK.…
CoralTrack Launches Coral Info Management System
CoralTrack is a new online platform for curating and tracking your aquarium corals. Share details about your corals, as well as tank profiles with images, parameters, ancestry, gear, and livestock. CoralTrack has just released the beta version of its advanced…
British Experts Called In To Help Mauritius Protect Coral Reefs From Oil Spill
The UK Government has sent three British ecology experts and one marine legal expert to Mauritius to support the next phase of Mauritius response to a devastating oil spill, after a ship containing 4,000 litres of fuel ran aground and…
Goniopora Vs. Bernardpora FIGHT! Which Flowerpot Coral Will Win?
Flowerpot corals have long been some of the most recognizable and most loved corals both in aquariums, and in the wild. Despite the appreciation, until very recently very many of these flowerpot corals were considered extremely difficult to keep in…
Coral Spawning Recorded Across The Caribbean August 2020
The full moon in August is a frenzied time for Caribbean coral scientists. Three of the Caribbean’s most iconic coral species, Staghorn (Acropora cervicornis), Elkhorn (Acropora palmata), and Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus), are preparing for one big night of synchronized…
The Indonesian Coral Trade is Business As Usual
We all know now, that after mariculture corals were re-opened at the beginning of the year, wild coral collection was also re-opened right after. We can now enjoy a complete supply of corals from Indonesia, like back in the old…
Drool-Worthy Corals From #reefbuilders Instagram
Sometimes a coral comes along that just makes you do a double-take. And, since we recently picked a 90-gallon aquarium last month our daily life now consists of scrolling through the #reefbuilders Instagram in search of reef aquarium inspo. This…
Fragging Duncan Coral and Installing the UltraReef Skimmer
There’s never any shortage of things to do around the Reef Builders Studio and topics to bring to the Reef Builders Studio video series. Instead of focusing on a single thing this week, we thought we’d combine two different topics…
3D Printed Terra-Cotta Coral Tiles Deployed Around Hong Kong
Marine scientists and architects from the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and its Robotic Fabrication Lab of the faculty of architecture have created a novel 3D print terra-cotta tiles that will act…
