True Pink Tipped Euphyllia paradivisa Is Rarer than You Think

Euphyllia paradivisa, is a popular aquarium coral commonly know as branching frogspawn coral. You can find it for sale online and in most reef aquarium shops along with other branching and wall type Euphyllia corals.   The frogspawn Euphyllia corals have…

Meet 6 of the corals that are in danger of becoming illegal

The petition to list over 80 species of stony corals as endangered led to a ruling that 20 of the proposed corals were deemed threatened, and warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. Of those 20 corals, five are Caribbean…

USFWS Los Angeles: It is now illegal to import frogspawn & certain deepwater acro species

Update:  9/16/14 4:15PM CT Waiting on a call back from the Office of External Affairs regarding the validity of it being an honest mistake. Update 2: USFWS Los Angeles: We are now advising the trade of coming ESA listings We…

Orange Frogspawn coral morphs appears in both branching species, from Indonesia

This weekend at Fragstock in Denver CO we caught sight of some amazing orange frogspawn coral that was being offered by Midwest Saltwater. We’ve seen the yellow torches and the orange hammers, but the orange frogspawn was definitely a first…