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I recently went to Adventure Aquarium with my grandson. I like it because it has its own unique flavor. We all know how hard it is to keep aquarium running well, so it was great to the great condition the reef tanks were in. I am dying to go behind the scenes sometime, but I have yet to see...

American Lobster (Homarus americanus) American Lobsters are found from New Jersey to Labrador with Maine being most known for them. Lobsters used to be very numerous. They were so plentiful that they were used as fertilizer. Now they are harvested to be sustainable. In Main, a lobster has...

Here is a reef trigger I photographed in Hawaii. Here is a lagoon trigger fish I photographed at the Maui Ocean Center.

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a The state gem in Hawaii is the black coral recently discussed in a previous reef fact. The state fish in Hawaii is the Humuhumunukunukuapua’a, humuhumu for short. This literally means a little trigger fish with a snout (or snorts) like a pig (depending on your source...

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While I was adding options, I must have hit return or something and it posted before I had finished.

Pipe organ coral (Tubipora musica) is a pretty unique coral for many reasons. First, the calcareous skeleton of this coral is reddish, one of the few corals with this color. Second, it is composed of tubes which are connected together by bands growing over the surface of the coral at intervals...

Post a few pictures if you have them. I was planning on doing one of these reef facts for oyster seeding projects. Perhaps you would like to do that one and share more of your experience.

Week fact – New Jersey Reefs. Did you know that New Jersey has many artificial reefs? By artificial, I mean manmade objects have been sunk, many on purpose, to form solid object on the ocean floor so that corals can attach and fish can find protection from predators. Corals need hard object to...

I saw 2 corals for sale at Major League Exotic pets in Jackson today at abt $50. I saw red and mostly blue worms. Here is a photo. @Jeremy Brito

What type of coral is it?

One of the labels is missing for the 7th pic. 8th pic is labeled 7.

When corals are first discussed, there relationship with zooxanthellae is often mentioned. Zooxanthellae provide the coral sugar, and the coral provided protection and fertilizers. However, many corals far outside the tropic areas or in deep water do not contain zooxanthellae. They basically get...

The touch tank near the entrance is nearing completion.

Did you know there are coral in the arctic? It is true. In the Aleutian Islands, corals were known to exist from trawling nets. But they were first observed on the ocean floor in 2001. Corals can grow in cold waters, but there is less diversity. They also grow much slower as the forms that grow...

They can look nice is some cases.

Anybody have good bubble algae pics?

Bubble algae is one of those aquarium pests that can actually be quite attractive in small quantities. Control of bubble algae usually starts with preventing it from being introduced in the first place. Once introduced, many people remove what they can by hand, using a baster to try and suck up...

I do about 7% each week. But if carbon is not kept up, I can have coral recede as well. Then I do 14% each week.

Is that a form of Jawbreaker mushroom? Also, I think that is one of the best/most interesting pictures I have ever seen of bubble algae in photo 9. I hope we can keep up the participation like this in the photo contest each month. Use it as a challenge to take better pictures and, more...