The Frag Tree 360 by Thrive Aquatics is a unique and efficient way to store and display your coral frags. Building on the design concept of the Thrive Aquatics Coral Frag plug Tree, the The Frag Tree 360 holds up to 27 frag…
Hands on with Thrive Aquatics vertically mounted coral frag plug tree
The Frag Plug Tree from Thrive Aquatics is an ingenious way to elegantly add more real estate for frags in an existing aquarium. Whereas most frag mounts we’ve seen to date including the Eshopps Frag Cave and Frag-a-rack are mounted…
RalfP’s mature reef aquarium is a world class coral display
RalfP’s reef aquarium is totally dope on so many levels it’s hard to know where to begin describing it. Huge mature coral colonies are creatively positioned together with large giant clams and plenty of open space in between that it…
Top 10 new and cool corals of 2011
2011 brought us a ton of new reef fish species and although coral species and new aquairum strains come about at a crawling pace, this year was an exceptionally good one for a broad range of corals of all types.…
Innovative company uses CO2 to create carbonate cement
Using coral as inspiration, researchers have taken an idea and have turned it into a company looking to reduce carbon dioxide levels and reduce the reliance on CO2-laden Portland cement in the construction industry. Stanford scientist Brent Constanz turned his…
Deepwater Acropora elegans has potential for killer color
Less than a month ago we picked up a small colony of Acropora elegans from LiveAquaria which looked more like wooden branches of Acropora than a colorful coral someone would want to keep in their tank. ‘Deepwater Acros’ are notoriously difficult to…
Coral Arks creates electrified framework to help rebuild coral reefs, faster
There is no doubt the growing coral reef destruction is causing a ripple effect with beach erosion on top of the loss of habitat and biodiversity of our oceans. We’ve seen some pretty interesting artificial coral reefs but Coral Arks…
Centropyge madness hits several Japanese LFS
The local fish stores of Japan are once again in the spotlight as they chaperon a new batch of very unusual Centropyge pygmy angelfish. The fish shown above is a very unusual dwarf angel brought in by B-Box Japan. We’re…
Coral growth time lapse video of a Caribbean reef tank for two years
There’s so much more to this time lapse video than the growth of an Acropora cervicornis hitting the glass and then encrusting its entire surface. Over the span of more than two years, 734 days to be exact, we can…
Vietnam may soon begin exporting hard corals
Details are scant but we’ve just got word that Vietnam may soon begin exporting stony corals. So far we’ve only seen some soft corals, giant clams and fish species exported from Vietnam. The most notable Vietnamese marine life exports have…
