by Admin | Sep 12, 2017 | Corals, Photography, Reef
I’ve written before about the dynamic nature of reefs and how reefs in the wild are ever so slowly falling apart as they grow. Individual corals become too large and, depending upon their origin point, can end up many meters lower if they... by Admin | Sep 11, 2017 | Photography, Reef
I spend a fair amount of time underwater, pointing my camera at one thing or another, with varying degrees of success. Like many divers, I will explore shipwrecks when the opportunity arises, and like most photographers, I seem to have quite a collection of propeller... by ReefBum | Sep 9, 2017 | Reef, Science, Tanks
There are only a few things about the reef keeping hobby I dread and one of them is moving a tank. Oh boy…..what a pain! One of my most memorable tank moves was when my wife and I left the big city lights of New York City for the leafy suburbs of Westchester, New York. At the time I had a 90 gallon reef tank and it sat in the living room of our 4th floor apartment. It was my first reef tank and it was marginal at best, but I started to have some success growing corals so I wanted to bring everything along. I really had to plan things out carefully since we were moving out of the apartment the day before we were due by Admin | Sep 8, 2017 | Invertebrates, Photography, Reef
Travelling worldwide gives me the opportunity to photograph and enjoy a huge amount of reef life, from sharks to nudibranchs. The one constant though, is that many of my fellow divers don’t think there’s anything worth seeing in UK... by Admin | Aug 31, 2017 | Aquaculture, Reef, Science
Aloha Mai Kakou, Exploring coastlines and finding underwater creatures has been a passion of mine since childhood.  Growing up in coastal Florida, I kept what I caught locally in home aquariums before landing my high school job at a burgeoning exotic pet store and... by Afishionado | Aug 24, 2017 | Reef, Science, Technology
Phosphate is one parameter is that we reef tank hobbyists should regularly test for, as excessive phosphate in our aquarium’s water will slow down or halt coral calcification in SPS corals and skeletal formation in LPS corals as well as many other corals that...