Blue Light Leaf, Plate and Sheet Corals, Curacao
Good morning friends, I had a question sent in asking if leaf, plate and sheet corals react under blue-light and YES they do!! These thin very breakable stony corals are turning out to be one of our...
View ArticleVideo: Red Sea REEFER™ systems get video lowdown
[embedded content] Further to their recent announcement which we broke here on Digital-Reefs, Red Sea have just published a detailed video tour of their REEFER™ series on Youtube. You have to hand it...
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Freeze and repeat. What is a sustainable marine aquarium?
Sustainability is a word that gets thrown around quite a bit these days. As America moved towards a “green” revolution a few years back, the word sustainable and green got tacked on to many things....
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All I Want For Christmas Is This Paracentropyge Boylei
Ok, and a few dozen other incredible species, but check this out! Every now and then a photograph shows up that really just strikes you, capturing the incomparable, delicate beauty of a certain...
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“Quirky, Quivery, Spindly, Spiky, Sticky, Stretchy…” A Deeper Look Into Susan...
“Beneath the ocean waves, hidden from our view, a spectacular profusion of life flourishes. The vast majority of marine creatures are invertebrates, animals without spines, and they embody some of...
View Article5 Ways Holiday Parties Can Be Perilous for Marine Aquariums!
When planning a holiday party, we tend to worry about things like an undercooked main entree, running out of “spirits” before the evening is over, lacking adequate seating for all the guests, little...
View ArticleReef Threads Podcast #209
Mr. Clean Magic Erasers lead off our annual list of stocking-stuffer ideas. It’s time for another podcast and we happen to have one. This week we announce our Where Do You Listen contest winner, offer...
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‘Coral Therapy’ by Coral Morphologic
Coral Morphologic is at it again in this time premiering their new film in a custom designed room at DesignMiami/ 2014. They’ve taken it to the next level making this film viewable on the Oculus Rift...
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Acropora Success
Very often I meet reef aquarium hobbyists that believe Acropora species corals are too difficult or even imposible to keep. A majority of them will have success with other corals but encounter...
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Beating a dead horse : water changes …
If there is a dead horse that’s been beaten, picked at by vultures and left to decompose in the hot savanna sun, it’s the topic of water changes. Now that the maggots, coyotes and other scavengers have...
View ArticleCoral Therapy @ Design Miami 2014
Jared McKay (left) and Colin Foord of Coral Morphologic in the ‘Coral Therapy’ Design Curio at Design Miami/ 2014. All photos by Flying Pyramids. For Design Miami/ 2014, we were honored to be asked to...
View ArticleUnderwater Snowstorm: Incredible Coral Spawning Footage From James Fatherree
Here in New York on December 8th it snowed a just a bit, little fluffy white flakes flickering about the sky under the street lamps, creating a beautiful scene with the holidays ever so quickly...
View Article‘You Are What You Eat’ So True For Filefish
For the first time scientists have discovered a fish that can chemically camouflage itself through its diet. The new research, published in the journal Proceeding of the Royal Society B, shows that the...
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The vital step is maintaining healthy fish: feeding
I have a lot of faith in marine aquarists as a whole. If I didn’t, I would have stepped out of the hobby the first time I saw a wild coral reef. Many of us have experienced these beautiful undersea...
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Pod of Sperm Whales Found Beached
A mystery is unfolding on the shores of Ardrossan, Australia where a pod of seven Sperm Whales was found beached this Monday. Something of a rare occurrence, the beaching of whales rarely has any...
View ArticleNew Sponsor: Nyos Aquatics
As experts in ‘high level reefing’, Germany-based Nyos Aquatics have been on our target sponsors list for a fair while now, indeed we’ve been most impressed with their offerings when we’ve had a chance...
View Article5 Common Causes of Marine Aquarium Ammonia Spikes
Sometimes adding specimens to an already heavily-stocked aquarium will be too much for existing biological filtrationYou come home from a long, vexing day at work only to notice that the fish in your...
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Giant Acropora
Many dream of having a forest of large Acropora colonies thriving in there own captive reef aquarium. This colony is almost two feet across. It is a very hardy specimen that was grown from a small...
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Opiate for the masses : Animal Planet’s Tanked
Sensationalism in nature television gets talked about quite a bit these days. Whether it’s an anaconda eating a person, or a bunch of backwoods hillbillies grabbing catfish with their hands and chasing...
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Caribbean Gorgonians Lend Insight into Coral Bleaching
Along with an international team, researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science simulated the impacts of elevated CO2 levels (and associated decrease...
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