Anacropora has always been one of our favorite lesser-known groups of stony corals and Reef Raft Canada is again giving us another reason to love this sister genus to Montis and Acros. The Goldenrod Anacropora is a spanking new strain of…
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Coral Resilience Sand Island, Snorkeling Solomon Islands
Snorkeling Solomon Islands, Sand Island Picture this, an uninhabited island made entirely of sand. Only a few sparse bushes growing in the center, surrounded by azure, turquoise, well pretty much every shade of blue you can imagine. Welcome to Sand…
Isopora cylindrica – a Solomon Island Specialty
Isopora cylindrica – Corals of the Solomon Islands A few days ago I landed in the Solomon Islands, and while this destination is a popular topic on the pages of Reef Builders, in fact, it is my very first time…
Hanabira yukibana, a New Species of Encrusting Polyps
Octocorals are a very diverse group of reef animals which include many different families, including the tiny and encrusting Stoloniferans that are very easy to overlook. Today a new genus and species of Stoloniferans gets recognized with the official description…
Ten Favorite Bubble Coral Pictures From Indonesia
Bubble Corals Bubble corals are slowly becoming one of my favorite species to photograph. Despite having only a handful of species I’ve still managed to find beautiful diversity, in bubble shape, size, and color. While the common color is white,…
Zetlight Lancia 2 Review: Useful Color & Control in a Versatile Striplight
The Zetlight Lancia 2 series of LED striplights are in a unique place in the LED lighting market for aquariums. There’s plenty of decent striplights with built-in onboard controls, and there’s lots of fully wireless controllable LED aquarium lights, but…
LED Breakthrough Allows Multiple Colors From a Single Diode!
Light Emitting Diodes, now commonly referred to as LEDs have revolutionized how we illuminate our world and especially our aquariums. Fifty years ago LEDs weren’t useful for much more than producing infra red light used in remote controls, but a…
Ecsenius springeri, a New Blenny Species from West Papua
Ecsenius springeri is a spankin new species of blenny that is very similar to our beloved aquarium bicolor gobies. So many of the new species described are often times wrasses and especially gobies, so it’s with great delight that today…
Real Reef Teases Murdered Out Black Live Rock
Live rock, whether wild or manmade is only supposed to come in a few familiar colors, usually shades of green and purple for the real stuff and white to grey for the manmade stuff, sometimes solid purple. Real Reef pioneered the…
Red Sea ReefLED 90 & 50 Full Details Highlighted in New Webpage
The ReefLED is a new reef aquarium light by Red Sea that we’ve been covering since Spring of last year. Red Sea has made many aquarium lights over the years, most notably they made one of the highest quality lines…
