Allow me to start with a short story: a few years ago, at one of my local forum’s frag swaps, a coral vendor attending the event gave me a black tee shirt. On the back of this t-shirt was the usual stuff- business logo, website, telephone numbers, etc. On the front, right at chest [...]
Frag racks. Almost everyone knows what they are but most of us are not fortunate enough to have a dedicated coral propagation system, and therefore need to deal with their presence in a display tank. Meticulously hidden from view, tucked in the dark corner of a reef aquarium, frag racks are [...]
A significant number of reefers support their hobby by propagating, and then selling or trading coral frags. Dedicated frag tanks have surged in popularity, which has compelled manufacturers to offer solutions for keeping these home coral farms thriving. Lotus is one such solution and it [...]
Today I’d like to share with you an update on my baby micro-propagated coral. I first posted about these two and a half months ago, and I’m impressed with how much they’ve grown since then. The two-polyp Astroturf Goniopora I posted about 10 weeks ago has seen a [...]
Seventh Grade Biology Teacher Dwayne Kalinay stands between two of the reef tanks in his classroom. The Reef Conservation Society’s Tanks for Schools program was featured in the July/August 2013 issue of CORAL Magazine. This program was started at Williamsport High School under the leadership of [...]
Recently, our mailbox greeted us with a pleasant surprise in the form of a new book, the 2nd edition of Practical Coral Farming by Miguel Tolosa. Admittedly, we haven’t read the book from cover to cover since we’ve only had it a couple of days, hence the reason why this is just a preliminary [...]
There’s nothing like a weekend fragging adventure, and I love nothing more than cutting into something new and interesting. This time I’ve decided to cut something that I’ve only seen one of, an Acanthastrea bowerbanki. It seems similar enough to common acans, but [...]