For this video, we are heading back to Plant City, Florida to talk to our good friend Chris Meckley of ACI Aquaculture about a highly underrated coral: Lobophyllia! One of the most beautiful, highly overlooked, and overly aggressive corals, this is a fascinating coral to learn about. [...]
OSA update, Eye-Candy Nostalgia, and A Reefers Guide to Buying Coral. This week we catch up with Jeremy is enjoying the new control over his tank and getting texts from the system, Peter is loving his eel and seeing good growth in his system. All this and more on Episode 139 of The Reef News [...]
We are pleased to present Coral Morphologic 2, an album of nine records inspired by the corals’ cosmic ability to synchronize their lives to Earth’s daily rotation upon its axis, the Moon’s monthly trip around Earth, and Earth’s yearly orbit of the Sun. CM 2 was written, produced, and [...]
The ocean awaits you...virtually. While we can't visit coral reefs, shipwrecks, and kelp beds in person right now, we can experience their wonder online through these 10 marvelous websites, curated by Antonia Wilson at The Guardian. The tours are fascinating for all ages, and especially helpful for [...]
image credit and copyright: Yi-Kai Tea (Lemon TYK) Do yourself a favor and check out this beautiful new website from one of our favorite ichthyologist/taxonomist/fish guys, Yi-Kai Tea (Lemon TYK). Filled with his photography and some wonderful insights, it is a true pleasure to scroll through. [...]
Fluorescence is an amazing natural phenomenon and one of the main reasons so many of us reef aquarists got hooked into keeping reef aquariums at home. When illuminated with black light, corals transform into these otherworldly creatures, glowing in the dark in a kaleidoscope of colors. There is [...]
In the last edition of Fluorescence Photography: MACNA Edition, I tried to shine some light on the topic of coral fluorescence- what it is, how does it manifest itself in corals and what’s the difference between this phenomenon and other forms of naturally occurring luminescence. In this [...]
