The success that reef keepers have achieved in the last ten to fifteen years has been nothing short of spectacular. It is now possible to keep many of the fish and corals that only a short time ago were thought to be impossible to keep.…

For anyone that has been in the reef keeping hobby for any length of time, the new found interest in coral cuttings, is rather amazing. The propagation of corals, especially stony corals, has been going on for at least the past fifteen years.…

Despite how long reefkeeping has been a hobby, few individuals realize what reef animals go through to get to us or even where many of them come from. Fortunately I was able to not only visit the reefs of Fiji, where many of the corals in our tanks comes from, but I was also able to go out with the collectors and observe first hand how corals, fish and live rock are collected and removed from the reef and then transported to the exporter.…