...and because it's my birthday I'll indulge myself and you all with a Friday afternoon look back at one of my favorite coral and music videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z43XVSZbZwk I was particularly inspired by the recent reef industry lip syncing...
Inspired by Jake Adams and Julian Sprung's friendly debate on Refugiums last MACNA, I decided to remove algae from my Refugium and replace it with Xenia. I wanted to remove any nuisance algae as well as Chaetomorpha and Caulerpa, so I added urchins, snails, and tangs....
A 100-gallon saltwater fish tank ruptured unexpectedly Sunday night at The Loft Wine Bar in Benecia, California. Security cameras caught the the whole thing.  Crazy!  What are your thoughts - what do you think could have caused this?See the footage here: MORE
I have the honor of working with Todd Gardner at his phenomenal Marine Lab at the Suffolk County Community College. Our aim is to provide a world class aquatic education to the students at the school, and to that end, this lab is shaping up to be quite the workplace....
Recently I had the pleasure/heartbreak of fragging one of my long term Goniopora mother colonies. I had been growing this line of coral for over 5 years, and this particular colony for 3 years; from a nickel sized frag it had become a 7 inch colony. Compared to other...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5EpswlNH2v0 My job is pretty cool. Not only do I farm coral all day long, but I get to take part in some of the happenings of a thriving public aquarium. Sometimes it's wrestling stingrays or wrangling monitor lizards, and other times,...
How small is too small? For coral, I think there is none too small to be loved and cared for. The challenge is that past a certain size, the smaller they are the harder time they have surviving. For over a decade, I have been refining my craft of growing coral from...
By Justin Credabel, Co-Owner ReefGen There has been an overlooked yet vitally important organism living in our reef aquariums. I’d like to introduce to the hobby a group of very important critters that have been unknowingly growing for years. This article will address...
Those looking to dose potassium should do so carefully and slowly. Overdosing potassium can be lethal to the coral. There are several kits on the market and some of them can tell you if potassium is below 400 ppm. If it is, you will generally want to correct this. It...
I have always been fascinated by the variations that crop up in asexually propagated coral, and I have spent many determined hours working on locking in these traits for all downstream propagations. The culmination of these efforts has resulted in one of my favorite...