Two-tone green birdnest coral kind of just ‘happened’ for AquaticArt

There’s an unusual green birdnest that’s been growing over at Cris Cap’s AquaticArt that we’ve been looking at for years, but didn’t fully appreciate its uniqueness until this past weekend. The Photon Man Sanjay Joshi came on an aquarium tour…

Ponape birdsnest coral now commercially available from ORA

The Ponape Birdsnest is a strain of Seriatopora which has been an iconic coral in the American reef aquarium hobby since 2003. Like the purple monster Acropora and the sunset Montipora, the Ponape Birdnest coral is one of those coral…

Who says LEDs can’t grow SPS corals?

LEDs are an amazing source of reef aquarium lighting and they are fully capable of growing beautiful, colorful stony corals. The two corals above, a bird-of-paradise Seriatopora hystrix and green Seriatopora guttatus, have been growing almost exclusively under LEDs from…