The eight new reef fish and single new coral species that we wrote about on Friday are already being revealed in great detail by new press photos from Conservation International. Among the newly discovered species are one Euphyllia coral, two…
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Prodibio finally offers more precise instructions for using it’s products to achieve low nutrient levels
We’ve been active users of the Prodibio line of probiotic aquarium products for a long time now, but we’ve always been more than a little frustrated when explaining how to use the stuff based on the vague and general guidelines…
sReef — the skimmerless reef tank of Marko Haaga
A while back we posted about the tank of Marko Haaga, a beautiful skimmerless reef tank which is truly exceptional in it’s appearance as well as it’s execution. Some of you were excited to learn more about Haga’s reef tank so…
Coral Colorblind: This is what you call an orange hammer coral
Coral Colorblind is a new installment here on Reef Builders where we attempt to sort out what it means when a coral is labeled with a certain color. There are way too many unscrupulous coral sellers who are being dishonest…
Orange Frogspawn coral morphs appears in both branching species, from Indonesia
This weekend at Fragstock in Denver CO we caught sight of some amazing orange frogspawn coral that was being offered by Midwest Saltwater. We’ve seen the yellow torches and the orange hammers, but the orange frogspawn was definitely a first…
Frag Stones from Lighthouse Aquatics are great for larger frags and LPS
It’s not like us to single out a frag plug for review but since we’ve been doing a lot of LPS coral fragging in the last few weeks, we’ve found ourselves reaching for the Lighthouse Aquatics frag stones more and…
ZEOvit DTOQ by Yoon Yeo Kwang is pretty freakin sweet
The reef tank of Yoon Yeo Kwang is an amazing reef aquarium set up which deserves to be called award winning. The third Dream Tank of the Quarter chosen by the ZEOvit forum a real stand out tank and although…
Bubble corals featured in today’s release of Advanced Aquarist
Although some people might pigeon-hole James Fatheree into being the Giant Clam guy, James is showing some new colors by writing a great article on a classic reef aquarium animal, the bubble corals. We’ve always had quite a lot of…
80 Species of stony corals could be added to Endagered Species list
There is an Arizona based environmental group that has started a petition that calls for protection of 80 species of stony corals. Effectively putting them on the Endangered Species list. While 83 were specifically stated, only 80 have made it…
Petition targets 83 coral species for U.S. endangered species list protection
The Center for Biological Diversity recently prepared and filed a scientific petition to have 83 coral species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The petition, filed on October 20, 2009, looks to use the powers of…
