Summer is here and if you ship out a bunch of corals every week like I do, you're going to need to keep them cool. Ice packs from most shipping supply companies cost anywhere from $1.00 - .50 cents each, that means I used to spend a few hundred dollars per year just...
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Fluffy Pillow Art
Growing corals and selling them for a living seems like an ideal job to other reef aquarists; actually my time is filled with a lot of online work, fragging, aquarium cleaning, box making, and other tedious chores. The one thing that has kept me engaged for over a...
Astreopora montiporina the backstory
The story of my Astreopora montiporina colony is an interesting one. If you're not familiar with this coral don't worry, it is not commonly known or collected; it was named as a new species in 2011. Back to my story, I purchased a colony of clove polyps four years ago...
Rare Blue Montipora! Ah no, it’s actually Collospongia
I’m continuously fascinated by all of the different things that live in our oceans. Sponges are the simplest of the multicellular organisms and also among the oldest, with a fossil record extending back to the last part of the Precambrian period, about 550 million...
Montipora Invasion!
For someone that loves acropora as much as I do, I sit here tonight staring at my beautiful 250 gallon mother colony system wondering how it ended up seventy five percent full of montipora colonies. When did this sneaky addiction to montipora over take my desire to...
Have you met Carl? Discosoma Carlgreni
Being a Florida native I have a lot of appreciation for our unique local corals. The corals that come from the Florida Keys and surrounding reefs generally aren’t as popular as their Pacific relatives, but are equally as beautiful. This week I would like to introduce...
Multicolor Globe Urchins to Light Up Your Reef
Hello! My name is Morgan Moore and I am very happy to join Reefs.com as a new contributor. I have been in the hobby since 2002 and in recent years have written some for CORAL magazine. I manage Reefgardener.net down in Coral Gables, FL. I have a passion for all...