It is well known that corals get their color from the Zooxanthellae in their cells, however, an often overlooked but very important aspect of coral coloration are fluorescent proteins and non-fluorescent chromoproteins. There have been some great write-ups about these other aspects of color coloration by people like Dana Riddle, but I feel that in …
Introduction There are tons of great resources that talk about the benefits of higher pH on coral growth but many of them merely use anecdotal evidence from their own tanks, and while this is great there are tons of variables on our own reef tanks and it is very difficult to apply these results to …
I want to start this article off by saying that this is an extremely niche subject and many reefers who perform frequent or even semi-frequent water changes should not worry about their trace elements if most your corals are growing well because as has been my experience and that of many other reefers trying to …
Acropora Corals can seem intimidating, they are the star of some of the most amazing single-species tanks, and the centerpiece of many mixed tanks. Their flowing polyps and stunning rainbow colors make them very desirable. Acropora corals prefer high flow and high light, they do better with lower nutrients, ideally nitrates below 2 ppm and …