Captive coral spawning is a big deal right now and represents the cutting edge of decades of trial and error when we learned first how to keep them alive, then how to frag them, and now, most importantly, how to…
Ultra Coral Australia propagates Homophyllia from the bottom up
Captive propagation of Homophyllia australis isn’t as easy as many other corals. Being a single polyp LPS coral, cutting through it with a coral saw usually ends in its demise. They have been captive spawned recently but the methods remain…
Maxspect Coral Pruner is Ideal for Thick SPS Skeletons
The first time we saw the Maxspect Coral Pruner we thought we’d hardly every have a chance to use it but lately they’ve been proving themselves very useful. The size of the blades of this aquarium-suitable pair of pruning shears…
Check Out This Wild New Concept CORE Disc From Oceanexus
We’ve seen frag plugs and frag discs made in a wide variety of shapes and sizes but not sure if we’ve seen a frag disc with quite this design. These intriguing CORE discs come to us from Oceanexus via LSS…
Reef Tap frag plugs are new coral bases that screw into live rock
The Reef Tap frag plug is actually a pretty neat idea of using a coarse irregular dome surface on top for corals to grow onto but the bottom is a neat little screw that should, in theory, allow you to more securely…
Machado de Sousa’s Coral Maternity is a quite impressive garage fish room
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToZtYTy9qIE[/youtube] When you think of a fish room, a long line of 20 gallon-ish aquariums on 2×4 racks usually come to mind. These systems do certainly get the job done, one just needs to look at Joe Lichtenbert‘s old fish…
