We think we’ve seen a wide variety of chalice corals in the aquarium hobby but there’s still plenty of diversity left for us to discover from wild corals. Mycedium mancaoi is a very unusual species of chalice coral which develops…
Search Results For: ORA
The White Corals Reef Aquarium Display is Truly Something to Behold [Video]
Last week we premiered three videos of our tour of White Corals in Germany on the Youtube channel – culminating in one of the awesomest reef tanks we’ve featured this year. This eight foot long reef tank was teased earlier…
Coral Farming is Catching on at Bangka Island Sulawesi
Coral Farming on Bangka Island Over the past year, you will have seen us write many times about diving in Northern Sulawesi Indonesia. This hot spot of biodiversity has quickly become one of our favorite places for scuba diving and…
White Corals has an Incredible Display of Livestock Too!
If you enjoyed yesterday’s presentation of White Corals’ impeccable reef aquarium showroom of dry goods, fish and filtration then boy do we have a treat for you. In part 2 of our coverage of our tour of White Corals we…
White Corals’ Showroom Should Inspire All Aquarium Stores [Video]
White Corals is Europe’s leading online reef aquarium livestock and dry goods vendor and also the folks behind the unique Nyos brand of aquarium products. This quintessentially German business is exactly what you would expect to see from Stuttgart, the…
Seriatopora dendritica, Birdnest Coral Wishes it was an Acropora!
Birdnest corals are fairly common in the ocean and in our aquariums, however we really culture a handful of common species. These include the sharp branch birdnest, Seriatopora hystrix, and the blunt tip birdnest, S. caliendrum and the usually green…
Mystery Corals of the Caribbean: Porites
Now, this is a question I must ask my most serious coral loving colleagues. How to tell the difference between all these Porites corals? *Looking to solve the mystery scroll to the bottom for Mystery corals, first is a description…
Coral Diversity of the Gardens of the Queen Cuba
Earlier this year we had the opportunity to visit the Gardens of the Queen Cuba in order to document coral diversity. We came up with a few weirdo corals, which are still a mystery to be solved… but all in…
Heliopora hiberniana is a New Species of ‘White’ Blue Ridge Coral
Heliopora hiberniana is the first new species of blue ridge coral to be described in over two hundred and fifty years! Originally described by Palais in 1766, Heliopora coerulea, also known as Blue Ridge coral is a super common, widespread…
Top 5 Super Exotic Thin Branched Acroporas
We are living in a golden age of reef aquariums right now and despite the closures of coral exports from Indonesia and Fiji, we still have a crazy number of coral strains already in the hobby. However, for all the…
