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Coral Off The Coast Of Cuba Is Flourishing
It’s refreshing to finally get some good news about the health of our ocean’s corals. While most of the World’s corals are suffering, the corals off the coast of Cuba are flourishing. Scientist, David...
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What constitutes an expert?
Yesterday I posted a breakdown of my personal aquariums, easing reader’s minds that as someone offering advice on marine aquariums, I actually have a few of them. After spending some time digging...
View ArticleWrite-Up Wednesday: Halloween Leptoseris
Combining a striking orange body and yellow-green eyes, the Halloween Lepto delights anyone who looks upon this SPS coral. Besides the unique color combination, the halloween Lepto also grows in an...
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Significant Update to Apex Fusion Makes Aquarium Control Even Easier
Apex Fusion, the nifty, free cloud-based service that allows you to control and monitor your Apex AquaController remotely from virtually anywhere in the world from nearly every platform available –...
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Scientists Discover Method To Grow Coral 25 Times Faster
Scientists in the Florida Keys have new groundbreaking potential method to restore dying coral reefs. These scientists are attempting life saving transplants for the Florida Keys reefs. The scientists...
View ArticleThe Horned Bannerfish: Little Color but Lots of Character
Horned bannerfish (Heniochus varius)When choosing fish species for our marine aquariums, bright coloration is often a highly sought-after characteristic. But there’s also something to be said for...
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New Device Spots Fake Fish
Scientists at the University of South Florida have come up with a device that will allow users to determine if that pricey restaurant fish is actually what is purports to be. The average diner probably...
View ArticleCoral City
‘Coral City’ [embedded content] [embedded content] We are very psyched to share ‘Coral City’, a half-hour documentary accompanying the Coral Morphologic cover story in last August’s VICE Magazine. The...
View ArticleReview: Nyos Quantum 220 Skimmer
If you caught our recent unboxing review you’ll know that we installed this interesting skimmer on the test tank back in Autumn 2014. This is certainly a great looking skimmer and now that it’s been...
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You own a reef aquarium. You’re not a conservationist.
I’ve been following a lively debate on one of the web’s many reef keeping blogs. It revolves around a series of posts regarding the National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA and legislation that places...
View ArticleFatty Liver Disease in Captive Marine Fishes
Nearly all lionfish in captivity more than three years show evidence of fatty liver disease upon necropsyThe fish in our aquariums rely solely on us to meet their dietary needs, and their long-term...
View ArticleWallpaper: February 2015 (subscribed, logged-in users only)
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What constitutes an expert?
Yesterday I posted a breakdown of my personal aquariums, easing reader’s minds that as someone offering advice on marine aquariums, I actually have a few of them. After spending some time digging...
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A follow up to Reef Aquarists are not conservationists.
After reading some responses I got via email on the rift between aquarists and conservationists, along with replies to some dialogue on other blogs tackling the topic, I thought it was important to...
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Announcing Reefs:Dispatches
Reefs.com strives to be the world’s leading destination for sustainable coral reef farming and the aquarium hobby. As such, we think it is vitally important to inform our readers about aquarium trade...
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Dispatch: Hawaii’s Fisheries Under Threat of Ban Bills
Image courtesy of NOAA under Creative Commons License The marine aquarium trade is based in large part on wild fishes harvested from aquarium fisheries around the world. While most aquarium fishes...
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Plans To Expand Gulf Of Mexico Reef Sanctuary
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) is calling for plans to enlarge the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. The new plan is proposing to...
View ArticleI’ve Failed My Kids as a Marine Aquarium Mentor!
When my son and daughter, Aidan and Hannah, were youngsters, both seemed to share my enthusiasm for marine aquariums. Even when they were just toddlers, they loved peering into my tanks—often leaving...
View ArticleReef Threads Podcast #216
Image shown in the Miami Herald article, provided by Waterkeepers, of coral covered in silt. We return, yet again, to talk about reef-aquarium-hobby stuff. Our subjects this week include our new...
View ArticleGorgonian Sea Fans
Gorgonian Sea Fans An often-overlooked category of corals is the Gorgonians. They include both photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic sea fans as well as sea whips that grow in a corkscrew shape....
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