You don’t. The short answer is that technically, there is no evidence that you need to cycle an aquarium before putting corals in. Now before you start pulling out your proverbial pitchforks and burn me and this statement at the…
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Caulastrea furcata: Indo-Pacific Coral Spotting
Caulastrea furcata Caulasatrea is a genus of corals which forms short branches and trumpet-shaped corallites. Each corallite is between 1-2 cm in diameter with branches up to 2-6 cm in length, depending on species. The coral tissue of this genus is…
Orange Eye Convict Chalice Coral
As soon as they became known about, convict chalices with a network of fine lines became one of the most highly sought after strains of Echinophyllia corals. Most of the convict chalice corals are a single, solid color such as the…
Continuum Reef Basis & Coral Color is a Complete Dosing System
Reef Basis and Coral Color is a new handful of additives from Continuum Aquatics that aims to simplify the complete dosing of minerals and trace elements for reef tanks. Reef Basis KH Buffer, Calcium +, and Magnesium handle the mineral…
Want To Try Growing Acropora Corals? Start With The Bali Green Slimer
Bali Green Slimer The Bali Green Slimer (Acropora yongei) is a classic aquarium coral which has been in the hobby for more than 20 years. No fancy colors, or psychedelic tentacles. This classic Acropora is as green as they come,…
Circus Reef – Coral Spotting in Northern Sulawesi
Circus Reef – Northern Sulawesi The Circus dive site is located along the coastline, about 30 minutes west of the Murex Manado resort. The dive starts with a sandy slope covered in chocolate chip starfish and tufts of seagrass. As…
Coral Eye Candy Overload From ReefAPalooza Orlando
There’s no question about it — Reefapalooza is part of a small group of reef shows that have become an annual – cultural phenomenon. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, reefing is a social hobby — there’s…
Asian Diver Magazine Big Blue Book – Meet The Coral Communicator!
The Coral Communicator Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the ADEX conference in Singapore. And, as many of you could have already guessed my talk was about…. wait for it… CORALS! ReefDivers.io is a website I created…
Unique Corals Amazeballs Goni is the ‘Homewrecker’ of Flowerpot Corals
It seems like flowerpot corals, Goniopora or gonies for short, have been on the verge of a tipping point in popularity for quite some time now. We’ve always had pretty good access to nicely colored Gonies in green, red and blues,…
CoralVue Reveals Revolutionary Klir Filter with ‘Drop-in’ Design
The Klir Filter by CoralVue was introduced just over six months ago and before it has even been released the automatic filter roll has been completely redesigned. The new form factor is completely different from the previous model with a…
