Captive Aquatic Ecosystems is a Texas based aquarium installation and consultation company that has been practicing the art of reef building since 2002. CAE was founded by Ben Johnson who is a professional reef aquarist with both the experience and…
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New Vegetable Protein Food Koral Veggy from Xaqua
Koral Veggy is a new coral food from Xaqua which comes specially packaged to provide corals with a fresh treat. As the name implies, Koral Veggy is primarily a plant-based coral food made with ‘vegetable proteins’ consisting primarily of phytoplankton…
Boring Bivalves Can Eat Corals from the Inside!
During our stay with the UCA team, and the few diving we made with them, we noticed that many corals, and especially Lobophyllia were showing weird holes on their polyps. After investigation, we found out that they were infested with…
ReefStock Denver 2019 Speaker Lineup
Since its inception, ReefStock has strived to bring the best of the best top knowledge to speak at the ReefStock conference. Having already featured many of the All-Stars of the aquarium speaker circuit it gets harder each year to invite…
Top 10 New Coral & Invert Species of 2018
The new species are always an exciting topic to write about and while the fish get the lion’s share of the attention, this year had a lot of great new corals and invertebrates. The zoanthids, deepwater gorgonians and the miniature…
Friday Smorgasbord: We got crabs edition
Hard to believe this is the last Friday Smorgasbord of the summer. Before we break into our horrible karaoke version of “Summer Nights” from Grease, we’ll just pass the baton to our latest Friday Smorgasbord full of crabs…. Take off…
MACNA 2019 will be in Orlando, Florida
This year’s MACNA in Las Vegas in just over a week away but we’ve just received confirmation on next year’s host city. MACNA 2019 will be in sunny Orlando Florida, a location which had a smashing successful MACNA as recently…
New Research Shows Zooxanthellae are Older than Dinosaurs
Symbiotic zooxanthellae are the backbone of tropical reefs built by photosynthetic corals. Therefore understanding how zooxanthellae ‘works’ and how different they are is paramount to understanding how coral reefs work as an ecosystem, and how they can adapt to a…
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…
Extreme Low Tide At Bangka Island Exposes Corals To Air, And They Survive!
Low Tide Corals Extreme tidal variations happen each month during what is known as a spring tide. This tidal phase happens twice each lunar month and the big swing in tidal heights occurs closes to the new moon. The second…
