Last week, on my usual visit to the Penn State tank for a routine feeding and check up, I noticed one of the corals was bleached on the top surface. Careful examination of coral showed the coral tissue on the shaded parts of the coral was fine, it was only the light...
Pushing the Boundaries and Breaking the Mold (1) – Plesiops Corallicola After being in the hobby for a long time, the usual becomes boring and not much of a challenge. To keep things interesting the temptation to push the boundaries is enticing. For a reef geek like...
In the past few years frag swaps have grown rapidly in numbers and size. It is a phenomenon that has swept the reefing landscape by storm. They have broken out of the basement amid the small gatherings where swapping truly took place (along with its associated social...
For those of you who do not know me, I have a 500G reef dominated by SPS corals that has been running, successfully by most standards, for the past 4 years.  Every night before I go to bed, I give my tanks a quick check. Last night I checked the tank and all my...
Blogging - What a way to start my 21st year of reef keeping! When I started in 1991, I never imagined I would be doing this 20 years later. While I always had freshwater fish when I was growing up, little did I realize that keeping fish (and now corals) could be...