Shipping corals across and around the country is a feat that is performed thousands of times per day but it wasn’t always so, and it wasn’t always a great outcome. In the last twenty years the hobby has grown collectively…
Captive Bubble coral bommie is 24 years young
A quarter of a century-old Bubble coral has just turned up at an LFS in the UK. Traded in to make room in his display tank, the previous owner admitted to taking it into his garage and having to break…
Our Biggest Aquarium Project Yet! Moving a 90 Gallon Saltwater Aquarium
Last month we started our most ambitious aquarium project to date moving a seven-year-old 90-gallon aquarium! Now over three weeks later, and with minimal losses in the process, the reef is happy and settled into its new location. When we…
Plerogyra diabolotus, the Devil’s Bubble Coral in our Reef Tank!
Bubble corals are a common group of reef and aquarium animals that everyone knows well, it’s one of the first coral names many people learn. But despite their visibility, the Plerogyra and Physogyra have never had a ‘hype moment’ the same way…
The Classic Octo-Bubble Coral Finally has a Name
An overlooked 2003 publication describing few new species of corals from Sabah, Malaysia, on the northern tip of the Borneo island, shed lights on a commonly available bubble coral species for many years from Indonesia, and finally put a name…
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,…
Learn To Spot Coral Diversity: Large Polyp Corals
Large Polyp Corals Large polyp corals are any hard coral species which have thick fleshy tissue and large corallites over a few centimeters wide. There are even some extra large species with polyps that can reach 10 even 30 centimeters…
Spot a Coral, Spot a Critter! : Bubble Coral Shrimp
After few weeks of absence… And following our blog series: spot a coral, spot a critter, we will check the cute little coral bubble shrimp… It’s a fav of UW photographer and it’s pretty easy to spot, if you know…
How To Identify 20 Stony Corals From Indonesia
Often scuba divers focus on tiny critters, schools of fish, or jumbo-sized creatures like whales, dolphins, and sharks. This leaves corals to get lumped together under a single term ‘coral reef’ which is far too general to describe the hundreds of individual…
Bubble Coral – How To Identify Four Species
Bubble Coral Bubble Corals are found throughout the Indo-Pacific and can be recognized by their smoothy pearly vesicles. The bubble coral is not to be mistaken for a soft coral or fish eggs, bubble corals are stony corals with skeletons just…
