Category: Saltwater
Having a green thumb is the term that is often assigned to people who are good at keeping indoor and/or outdoor plants, whether they be for consumption or their …
Recently, I was reminded by a friend how great today’s smart phones are for photography. It seems he wasn’t talking about your casual photography, where you shoot a …
A previous article examined the effects of increased inorganic carbon (‘alkalinity’) concentrations of symbiotic zooxanthellae – rates of photosynthesis within symbionts of the stony coral Porites lobata increased with …
As many of you know, I live on the tip of Cape Cod in a small town called Provincetown, a town that has a year-round population of somewhere around …
My name is Tony. I have been reefkeeping since the age of 21; I’m now 45. My Deltec reef aquarium has been running for around 4 years. Unfortunately in …
This month, we’ll take a close look at Apogee Instruments’ new MQ-500 quantum (PAR) meter and sensor with improved spectral response. The MQ-500 meter is a handheld device, with …
SPS corals are mesmerizing animals that we easily become addicted to. The pursuit to constantly challenge our reefkeeping abilities keeps us wanting a more difficult SPS coral.We love the unique growth of …
Invertebrates and corals in particular, are fascinating to us higher primates (humans) particularly because they seem so alien from us. Everything about them from the way they live, the …
Leptoseris is a genus of coral that has absolutely blown up in the marine aquarium hobby in the last few years. Notable efforts to collect rare and unusual strains …
With so much of the American reefing hobby getting caught up in collectoritis of fuzzy sticks with silly little names, we turn to Japan for an example of what a beautiful …