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…
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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…
Our First Batch of World Wide Corals Frags for the Reef Builders Studio
It’s been a long journey getting the Reef Builders Studio to the point where we can start receiving frags. But now that at least the first coral flat is really doing well, we felt comfortable receiving an exciting shipment of…
Flower Polyp Montipora Appears with Intense GFP Infection
The Flower Polyp Montipora Cap is one of the older and more unique strains of Montipora in the reef aquarium hobby, and also one of our favorites. This light off-green Monti strain has a nice thick purple rim, but what really…
LarvalBot Is Here To Spread It’s Coral ‘Seed’ Larval Restoration
To coincide with the Australian mass coral spawning event, Queensland University of Technology’s underwater robot RangerBot has been transformed into LarvalBot! This larvae dispursing robot will release hundreds of millions of developed coral larvae on degraded reef areas in hopes of…
Pink Fusion & Purple Helix are Truly Coralline Algae in a Bottle
Pink Fusion and Purple Helix are two new products promising to contain ‘Coralline Algae in a Bottle’. Produced by a company called Atlantic Reef Conservation or ARC Reef for short, Coralline Algae in a Bottle is exactly what it sounds…
Up Close And Personal With Caribbean Coral Macro Photography
Caribbean Coral Macro Photography It’s easy to swim right past coral colonies while scuba diving. Perhaps you notice their shape or stature, but few divers will get up close and personal and start observing corals at a macro level. Depending…
Cirrhilabrus sanguineus Brought to America by TSM Corals
For decades the red blotched fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus sanguineus, has been a holy grail of wrasse collectors and pretty much known only from books and pictures. The earlier this year expert deep diving fish collector Tim Bennett shocked the world by hauling…
Top 10 Corals to Spot in the Gardens of the Queen, Cuba
Coral Spotting in Cuba Gardens of the Queen, a protected archipelago off the southern coast of Cuba, is renowned for their healthy population of sharks and mature fish. But coral diversity in the park can be just as spectacular, especially…
Video Feature of the Original Weeping Willow Leather Coral
The Weeping Willow leather coral is one of the oldest yet least understood soft coral strains in the reef aquarium hobby. Originating at least as far back as the year 2000, this exceptional strain of Sarcophyton ehrenbergi is known for its…
