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How to effectively ship prepare live saltwater corals and inverts for shipping:

Last week I visited my local fish shop and was greeted by an amazing sight - A two-headed seahorse! I immediately placed a deposit on it and went home to prepare my aquarium for it’s arrival. The seahorse currently resides in my main aquarium but will be moved into a purpose built 150l aquarium when it has established.

The coral gardener is available on BBC iPlayer for a few more hours only so if you haven’t seen it yet you need to be quick. You can also download it and keep it for up to 30 days: The Coral Gardener iPlayer BBC video

Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to ‘junk food’ - and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it.

Austin Bowden-Kerby is a coral gardener. He has brought together his love of gardening, and passion for the underwater world, to do something very special that just might save the coral reefs of Fiji. This 10 minute nature documentary shows a glimpse at how coral reefs can be gardened to protect them.

‘Henry’ the hexapus as he has been named by his keepers at Blackpool Sea Life, was first found in a lobster pot off the north Wales coast.

Saltwater fish and invertebrates can require a of lot care. These books give advice on maintaining correct water chemistry and describes many marine fish and invertibrates that are suitable for the marine aquarium. The books are mainly targetted towards beginners with some useful information about feeding, behavior and species identification.

This is a three part video from HCRI (Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative) of a presentation by Zac Forsman about the propagation of Hawaiian reef-building corals for restoration research. He covers some important issues related to the reef aquarium trade including some very interesting points about the interaction between light and flow and how this can affect the growth of our corals, looking specifically at Porites.sp and Montipora.sp.  He also discusses the affects (or lack of) that some very common brands of commercially available coral foods have on the growth rate of corals.

A beautiful black, white and yellow butterflyfish, much admired by eco-tourists, divers and aquarium keepers alike, may be at risk of extinction, scientists have warned.