by Leonard Ho | Jan 19, 2018 | Advanced Aquarist
"Mercy in Her Beauty, Or, The Height of a Deliverance from the Depth." Two new, incredibly gorgeous basslets have been discovered in the uber deep waters of the Caribbean. by xeniaforever | Jan 18, 2018 | Funny, Home Decor, Too Cute
With the winter well underway, many of us are dreaming of beach days, lying in the sand, splashing in the waves, and snorkeling and diving to check out the amazing sea life that inhabits our oceans.… by Leonard Ho | Jan 17, 2018 | Advanced Aquarist
Three new species of killfish are described from Cerrado savannas of central Brazil, a lush tropical region renowned for its biological diversity: Melanorivulus proximus, M. nigromarginatus, and M. linearis. by Joe Rowlett | Jan 16, 2018 | Science
Let’s take a brief moment to meet Lipogramma barrettorum and L. schrieri, the newest tiny grammatids to emerge from the Caribbean’s deep reefs. by ReefBum | Jan 16, 2018 | Tanks
In my 25+ years keeping reef tanks I figured I had seen it all. Well, this can be a humbling hobby and I was reminded of this when I discovered dinos, short for dinoflagellates, in my 187 gallon tank about two years ago.  Dinoflagellates are notoriously difficult to eradicate, causing some aquarists to quit or break down and fully reboot their tanks. Identifying Dinoflagellates So what are dinoflagellates? There are many forms, but the kind that gives reef keepers fits is a snot-like algae substance that attaches to rocks, sand, power heads, corals and anything else they can latch on to. They are typically brown, long, stringy and have air bubbles. They can literally coat everything, and some varieties can release toxins that are especially harmful to by Tidal Gardens | Jan 15, 2018 | Corals, Reef, Video
The coral I’ll be covering today are Pipe Organ Corals of the Genus Tubipora. They are not that uncommon but at the same time not a lot of people have them in their reef tanks. I find that a little weird because they are some of the most beautiful soft corals out there. Pipe Organs can vary in appearance from something very similar in appearance to green star polyps to flower-like daisy shaped polyps. 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 Copyright Information: This video was shot and edited by Tidal Gardens. Tidal Gardens owns all intellectual property rights to this content. by Leonard Ho | Jan 15, 2018 | Advanced Aquarist
A recent research concluded that instead of trying to affix large coral frags directly to reef substrate, using tetrapod plugs seeded with sexually propagated corals doubled the survival rates and resulted in a whopping 5 to 18 fold reduction in outplanting costs. by danireef | Jan 14, 2018 | Equipment, Events
One of the innovations that really caught our attention at CIPS 2017 was the new customizable net cover by Red Sea. One problem that affects almost all of us is the fact that a few fish can jump out of the...
