Acropora efflorescens is one of our long time favorite species of Acropora in an aquarium, they have the coolest shape, awesome color, and can quickly grow to large sizes in captivity. These qualities mean that Acro Efflo frags are available…
Acropora striata, a Skinny Version of the Beloved Tenuis Acro
For many years, we’ve been intrigued by an Acropora tenuis look alike, a convincing impersonator with skinny tapering branches. This is a coral we occasionally encountered from time to time, in many different places around the Indonesian archipelago but for…
Second Generation Acropora Successfully Raised at Horniman Museum
it was around six years ago that Jamie Craggs and the Horniman Museum & Gardens first successfully spawned and raised Acropora corals in an aquarium environment. Now this same team has succeeded in spawning the first generation of corals they…
Is Acropora convexa the Next Holy Grail Acro?
It’s been a while since we wrote about Australian corals but with all this down time, we finally can find the time to write about things that inspired us in our previous journeys.During our Ultra Coral Australia trips on the…
The Joe Dirt Acro is one of Worldwide Corals’ Most Underrated SPS Corals
The Worldwide Corals Joe Dirt Acro is an elegant, delicately branching thin staghorn that has a hidden beauty that betrays its name. If someone gave you a frag of a kinda purplish tip staghorn with a basic nutty brown base…
A Sneak Peek at the Newest Wave of Indo Cultured Acropora
A year and a half doesn’t seem like a very long time but it’s an eternity for rabid coral collectors, and even more so for the coral farmers who’ve gone without income for so long. Thankfully after extensive lobbying, negotiations…
The Kodama Acro is the Australian ‘Naked’ Acropora
The Kodama Acro is a very intriguing colony of Acropora that we collected alongside Ultra Corals Australia on the Southern Great Barrier Reef in Australia. What makes this coral special to us is that it was the first coral colony we…
Acropora lokani is SPS Royalty Among Acros
Acropora lokani is a very common deeper water Acropora that is common in Indonesia and widespread through the Indo-Pacific. The lokani Acro has been farmed by the thousands for many years, decades even, so in that time we thought we’d…
Coral-Bacteria Communities are WAY More Important than Anyone Thought
Reading through different coral scientific publication, we came across one, that could be quite relevant for us reef aquarist. In this publication published in Nature, scientist from the Red Sea Research center, from the King Abdullah University of Science and…
Snorkeling Mbigo Mbigo Reef With Dive Munda Solomon Islands
Mbigo Mbigo Snorkeling Solomon Islands From the moment our head slipped beneath the waves, we knew we made the right choice to snorkel Mbigo Mbigo. Skip the scuba tank and instead experience Mbigo Mbigo from the surface! The scale of…
