Product Spotlight : Coral Frenzy

I recently wrote an article for Reefs.com highlighting the release of the newly-formulated Coral Frenzy. A month ago during Reef A Palooza Chicago, I happened to run into my good friend Ken Easter of Coral Frenzy, the original creator of powdered coral food, during my...

Top 5 Bare Bottom Tank Corals

Top 5 corals for the substrate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmwWTi1tqfQ One could technically put any coral on the bottom of a reef tank and make it work to some degree. It’s not always a good idea to do so and here we will cover why some corals make better bare bottom candidates than others. #tidalgardens #coral #reeftank Video: Camera Gear List on Amazon Canon C200 Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS macro Canon EF MP-E 65mm f/2.8 macro Sigma Art 18-35mm f/1.8 Free Fly Movi Pro Stabilizer Kessler Crane Motorized Slider Copyright Information: This video was shot and edited by Tidal Gardens. Tidal Gardens owns all intellectual property rights to this content.

Scientists are Studying the Biological Relationship Between Corals and Marine Bacteria

The relationship between bacteria and Corals has recently become a hot topic on Reef2Reef as a result of a research paper recently published in the Nature journal. The study estimates that about 1/3 of all corals worldwide are infected with this newly discovered bacterium which researchers named,Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri. The bacterium can be found in a number of corals that we commonly keep in our aquariums including, Acropora, Goniopora, Montipora, Seriatopora and Stylophora species. Additionally, it can also be found in anemones. Researches also discovered the bacterium can be transmitted through coral eating parasitic snails and transported through seawater whereby it can potentially infect corals where tissue damage is present. Corals that are infected with Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri exhibit little to no growth. Researchers hypothesize the