It’s been less than a week since the Fiji Ministry of Fisheries & Forests abruptly announced an immediate and complete ban on all live coral and live rock exports from the small island nation. The immediate result has been the…
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Feeding WILD Corals on the Reefs of Papua New Guinea
It cannot be overstated enough that in addition to providing a good physical and chemical environment for our corals, the most important thing we can do to keep healthy corals is properly feeding them. When diving a wild coral reef…
Fiji Coral & Live Rock BANNED by Ministry of Fisheries!
A statement just released by the Fiji Ministry of Fisheries and Forests is aiming to completely halt the aquarium business in the country, effective immediately! This is very bizarre as for one thing, Fiji has been a model of sustainable…
Try Coral! That’s One Minute Reef Aquarium Video
The reef aquarium hobby comes with a fascinating culture. Aquarists grow psychedelic coral gardens to enjoy with friends, and can even make some extra cash on the side. For regular Reef Builder readers, this comes as no surprise. But to someone who’s never…
Top 10 New Corals of 2017
Over the last 15 years aquarium corals have gone from simple brownish or greenish shades to ostentatious colors which would have seemed unimaginable in the early days of reefkeeping. With all the progress that we’ve made it’s hard to imagine…
Quick Guide To Mound & Boulder Caribbean Corals
Mound & Boulder Quick Guide We get it, you’re busy and don’t have time to sit around sifting through books or perusing our Guide to Caribbean Corals. So we made this quick guide to Mound & Boulder corals so you can easily identify Caribbean…
Quick Guide To Large Polyp Caribbean Corals
Large Polyps When most people imagine corals, they think of hundreds of tiny polyps creating a larger colony of coral. And while this is true for most corals there is a second category of corals which have large polyps, and even single…
Washington Area Reefers give support to Fiji Coral Farmers
New Funding for the ADE project from WAMAS The Washington DC Area Marine Aquarist Society (WAMAS) has awarded the first major contribution, a $10,000 donation, to the ADE Project in Fiji founded by Walt Smith. ADE (Aquaculture Development for the…
Top 6 New Species of Corals & Crabs of 2017
This year gave us a bumper crop of new neat little crabs and hermit crab species although it was kind of mild on the new coral species front. Any given year it’s impossible to compare the number of new reef…
Trying out the unique properties of Reef Cell Fish & Coral Foods
Every year a multitude of companies introduce their ‘new’ reef aquarium and coral foods which are often little more than an assortment of finely ground ingredients. But aquarium fish food veteran New Life Spectrum has recently released a new line…
