Diving With Her Deepness Dr. Sylvia Earle – And Euphyllia Reef We Must Protect!

Diving With Her Deepness Dr. Sylvia Earle You know you’re on the right path when an invitation arrives to guide a dive for the one and only Dr. Sylvia Earle! Last month while diving in Northern Sulawesi during the Celebrate…

Take a Ride on the Passport to Coral Paradise in Northern Sulawesi Indonesia

Last year, I had the opportunity to visit Northern Sulawesi as part of the ReefBuilders scuba destination trip. On this expedition, we visited three location along the Northern coast of Sulawesi, Manado, Bangka, and Lembeh Strait on a set tour…

New Vertex Website is a Dream for Gear Heads

The new website for Vertex Aquaristik has us excited not because it’s really flashy and animated, but for all the technical specifications that it dives deep into for all of their products. Their skimmers and reverse osmosis water purifiers are…

SUPA HUKA Surface-Supplied Breathing Apparatus

SUPA HUKA What is it? SUPA HUKA is the latest SSBA (Surface-Supplied Breathing Apparatus) designed for easy subsurface underwater exploration. The SUPA HUKA is a mix between snorkeling and scuba diving, allowing you to dive up to 10m deep. This…

Visiting the Coral Greenhouse of Tampico Coral Farms [Video]

Greenhouse Coral Farming was once a hypoed buzzword in the coral hobby but although we don’t hear so much about it these days, there’s still some reefers soldiering on growing corals with natural sunlight. I had the opportunity to visit…

Acropora Thrive In The Shallow Reefs Around Halmahera Indonesia

Halmahera Indonesia We’ve just spent a week diving in the northern province of Maluku Indonesia around the island of Halmahera, and to say we found our Acropora dream reef is an understatement. We visited this region as part of the…

Coral View Lens Review – A Must-Have Accessory For Social Reefers

Without exaggeration, a clip-on yellow or orange smartphone filter to take pictures in blue light reef tanks is one of the most important accessories a reefer should have in 2018. Since we can’t take our tanks with us and we…

Change your Mobile Photography Game with Polyp Lab Coral View Lens

The Coral View Lens from Polyp Lab is a groundbreaking new kit that is a must have for any reef aquarium enthusiasts. The kit includes three detachable add-ons for a mount that simply clips on to the small camera of…

What Is A Corallite?

Corallite Looking through my pictures I realized I am started to get quite the collection of macro shots of Acropora corals. One thing that is really incredible about these close up images is we are able to see the corallite,…

How To Grow The Most INTENSE Purple Rim Monti Cap

The purple rim Leng Sy cap is one of the most desirable and recognizable coral strains in the hobby of SPS reef keeping. Like zebra plecos and peppermint angelfish, images of the purple rim cap have been plastered on the…