When visitors come to see my tanks and realize that the tanks are full of live coral one of the questions I get frequently asked is “So what’s your favorite coral?” To me that is akin to asking me, who…
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On This World Oceans Day, Let’s Try To Do More For Coral Reefs
The reef aquarium hobby is such a wonderful cultural movement, it’s transformed how generations of us see, think and feel about wild coral reefs. Without successful reef aquariums and all that we’ve learned about corals from them, ‘coral reefs’ would…
The Most Expensive Yasha Gobies In The World
The Yasha goby is such a beautiful nouveau iconic reef fish, it’s easy to forget that this fish is not that common or widespread. This fish had its aquaristic debut as recently as 1999 and while they are common in…
So Many Azoox Stony Corals in a Single Shallow Reef Cave
Our aquarium life is all but dominated by photosynthetic corals and to be fair, the brightly lit aquariums they require is part of the appeal. But there’s a whole wide world of cool and unusual corals growing literally in the shadows,…
Mote and Nature Conservancy to Restore One Million Corals in the Caribbean and Florida Keys
Mote Marine Laboratory and The Nature Conservancy are teaming up to restore coral reefs at unprecedented scales throughout the Caribbean and the Florida Keys. The collaboration officially began Sept. 12, 2016 in Miami, with the signing of a one-year memorandum…
Come See Us at MACNA To Get Your Free Beginner Corals Poster
In addition to our Blue Facts comic book, we’ve also teamed up with ComiQuarium and Polyp Lab to bring you an exciting new poster featuring a quick guide on How to Care for Beginner Corals. Best of all the poster…
World Wide Coral and Planet Aquarium MACNA Giveaway
MACNA San Diego is only ONE week away, and we’ve got some exciting news to share. World Wide Corals and Planet Aquarium are teaming up to bring you their biggest giveaway yet. All you have to do is be one of the…
The Hottest Corals of 2006
Not to make you feel old, but ten years ago was when Nintendo brought out the Wii, and Pluto was still a planet. Yeah I can’t believe they did that to Mickey Mouse’s dog either. The first one billionth song was…
The Hottest Corals of 1996
1996 was an interesting year for a number of reasons as it was the year that Dolly the sheep was cloned, DVDs were launched and my Steelers lost to the dreaded Cowboys. There were no digital cameras, nor smartphones, and…
Reefer’s eye view of dying corals on the Great Barrier Reef
For the past two to three weeks, the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef has been all over the news, and there’s hardly a day that goes by that new pictures and reports come in of how dire the situation…
