I’ve always been interested in how corals grow with – and very often upon – each other in the wild. As we all know, reefs are dynamic places, where change is commonplace. Here are a few shots that I’ll use to explore my theme. In the image at the top of the [...]
For this episode, we traveled to Plant City to talk to our good friend Chris Meckley to talk about one of the most loved coral in our hobby, zoanthids and palythoas. We covered how to take care of it, what to look for, what to do, what not to do and what to look out for. Enjoy! [...]
A recent molecular study focusing on corals of the family Agariciidae came to an interesting conclusion—Pavona and Leptoseris, the two groups most familiar to aquarists, aren’t actually distinct from each other and should probably just be treated as a single genus. The agaraciids are one of the [...]
Check out this beautiful time lapse video from myLapse; it celebrates the diversity in color, shape, and movement of corals such as Acantophyllia, Trachiphyllia, Heteropsammia, [...]
One of the rarest and most enigmatic of plate corals has just been recognized as belonging to a new genus. The newly minted Sinuorota hexagonalis has been known to science since the mid-nineteenth century, but it has up until now been treated as belonging to Cycloseris, and, previous to that, in [...]
For this video, we got together with Living Color Aquarium : Fish Tank Kings crew to see how the professionals shop for their animals. We went to the TFT wholesale facility in Dania Beach, Florida where we got a behind the scenes look of how animals end up in your local fish stores, what to look [...]
I’ve read that corals from the Fungidae family, specifically genus Fungia, can often be found in large congregations. I have on occasion seen these solitary corals in small aggregations, but never have I seen as many as I did on this particular dive. Call them Disk Coral, [...]
One of the great things about this hobby are the nicknames given to designer, high end Acropora. The Icefire Enchinata, ORA Pearlberry, Strawberry Shortcake, Tyree Red Dragon and Tyree Pink Lemonade are a few examples of corals with eclectic names. An eye catching name is certainly important to [...]