Top 10 New Corals of 2017

Over the last 15 years aquarium corals have gone from simple brownish or greenish shades to ostentatious colors which would have seemed unimaginable in the early days of reefkeeping. With all the progress that we’ve made it’s hard to imagine…

ARC Ultra Bowerbanki is Part Master, Part UFO

The ARC Ultra Bowerbanki is a recently imported coral colony from A Reef Creation that channels the best color patterns of the species, and the genus. Normally, ‘Scolies’ are the LPS coral which we see with either a master color…

The coral-packed reef tank of Aquatic Art Inc.

With the reefing hobby’s increasing emphasis on frags and collecting corals rather than growing them, it’s becoming increasingly rare to see what a real grown out mini reef aquarium should look like. Thankfully, our old friend Cris Capp of Aquatic…

Marine Depot Live returns with wysiwyg corals, clams and fish

Marine Depot has decided to return to the livestock side of the aquarium business by relaunching Marine Depot Live. Almost four years since Marine Depot Live was closed, the Depot is once again aiming to satisfy all your marine livestock demands…

Based on their frag pricing, Sexy Corals is probably smoking crack

We’ve just got two words for Sexy Corals: Re Hab. Put down the crack pipe and call your local drug abuse hotline because you have got to be high if you think this is still 2005-2006 where you can name…

Window Shopping Some Great & Affordable wysiwyg Coral Frags

It’s been a really long time since we shared some interesting and unique corals from around the web. With more online coral vendors than ever before we only got through a few pages of google search results before we had more than…

Unboxing a New Coral Shipment from Jason Fox

Jason Fox is one of the most prolific progenitors of fun and unique coral strains in the aquarium hobby and we love comparing notes with him about our observations of corals on wild reefs. While Jason might be best known…

Neon Yellow Elegance Coral is like a Sunset at Chernobyl

Think of LPS corals with variation in color and you might think of torch corals or chalice, but the humble Elegance Coral, Catalaphyllia jardinei, can produce some freakish variations too. Most Catalaphyllia jardinei have light brown base flesh, fluorescent green mottling on the oral disc, with mint green hues and blueish tips.

Cetus 2 LED Offers The Ideal Wavelength For Low To Medium Light Corals

The Cetus 2 is a pendant-style LED by HME Electronics is ideal for small aquariums with low to medium light corals. The Cetus 2 comes with an updated smartphone app (HME AquaMaster) allowing users to customize and select various light…

Solomon Island Corals Make a Comeback to Unique Corals

After a long absence from the reef aquarium hobby, Unique Corals has finally succeeded in landing a shipment of fresh new wild corals from the Coral Triangle. However unlike the rest of the world fighting over the trickle of corals…