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Pomacentrus vatosoa: Corazon’s Damselfish get Official Description
Corazon’s damselfish is a brilliant new species of damselfish that was discovered just last year has already been treated to an official description. This little treasure of a reef fish from Madagascar has been bestowed the latin name of Pomacentrus…
Learn to Spot Encrusting Coral
Encrusting Coral Growth Form Corals grow in different growth forms to survive in different habitats, and the coral growth form which a most easily overlooked are the encrusting species. These corals creep along the rocks like a crust holding everything…
What is the Status of Indonesian Aquarium Corals?
It’s been a while since we’ve given you an update on what’s going on in Indonesia – there haven’t been any corals shipped for about a year now but thankfully, it appears there appears to be some movement in this…
Indophyllia macassarensis, The Rarest of the Donut Corals
Today while diving in the South east of Bali, we got lucky to be welcome by ‘extremely’ cold temperature waters (21C, 69F). Because this is unusually cold water for Bali, it is actually a sign of upwelling of cold, clear…
Flaming Sunrise from Candy Corals is one of a Helluva Acropora speciosa
Candy Corals from Canada, recently acquired an amazing Acropora speciosa from Malaysia that they are calling the Flaming Sunrise. We’ve long been fans of these particular deepwater and elegant shaped species of Acropora that we used to get from Indonesia,…
Protecting Our Elders – Hundred Year Old Pavona clavus Corals
Pavona clavus is a coral species which is well documented for its often colossal size. However, what is even more impressive is the age of these large coral colonies, with some reaching hundreds of years in age. When we think…
ORMA Teases the Motherlode of Colorful Fluted Moon Corals
The fluted moon corals formerly of the special Barabbatoia genus may have been re-reclassified back into Favia, but that doesn’t really change how much we love them in reef tanks. This group of moon corals (Faviids), first ‘championed’ by Ocean…
Grow Your Brain by Learning About Corals
By Dr. Laura Walton Earlier this year I attended a Reefdivers talk and was introduced to the idea of “Seeing the Reef with new eyes”: As divers we see the reef all the time, without ever really seeing it! Sure,…
Rare ‘Astro Leather’ Coral Trickling Into the Reef Hobby
The Astro Leather is a very interesting group of soft corals which was only described to the genus level earlier this year. Leather corals are very common and can be super abundant in certain environments but Anastromvos leathers have gone completely…
