Watch Tubastrea Larvae Escape Its Parent Coral by the Tentacle

Tubastrea sun corals are by far the most common non photosynthetic coral in the reef aquarium hobby, partially because they are so common throughout their natural range in the Indo-Pacific Oceans. Since the beginning of the last century however, the first…

Floating corallites: larvae of some stony corals take a while to settle down

A new previously unknown life-stage of stony coral larvae has been published describing how a small percentage of lab-grown coral planula can float through metamorphosis. That was not a euphimism, as some stony coral larvae have been documented secreting a…