Trimming the coral garden to keep its inhabitants in tip-top shape is by far the best part of tank maintenance a successful reefkeping aficionado performs on a regular basis. Fragging corals brings joy to one’s face, whether the purpose of such a task is to transplant them to other parts of the [...]
Precisely one year ago, I had the opportunity to review an interesting product called Reef Rax (shameless plug right HERE), a natural looking manmade piece of rock with one flat side, two magnets embedded in its structure, and a bunch of frag plug sized holes drilled through it. I gave it a [...]
I must admit up front, I did not know about Tamsco, or, at least, wasn’t aware that I might have encountered their products while shopping for fragging tools. That’s a real shame because the company has a mind-blowing offering of aquarium care products in their catalog. My unintended [...]
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 level, a [...]
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 comes from [...]
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 700% increase in [...]
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 [...]
