Ever seen the heartbeat of a clownfish while its still inside the egg? Video taken via a mesoscope. Video via Linda L.  Header photo via this video. No related posts. No related posts.

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Its been quiet here at the Fragd.it blog. Sometimes, life gets in the way.  But don’t worry, we are still alive and well, thank you for asking. As I was browsing Youtube for some cool videos, I stumbled upon this touching, educational BBC clip about the decline of reef fish in the Indo-Pacific. It is a [...] Related posts:

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Over the past few years there has been a lot of talk about the named “designer” corals available to our American neighbors; and lately a few of these high end pieces have been available in the Toronto Area.  A couple of vendors have brought in the Strawberry Shortcake Acropra, making many SPS collectors very happy. [...] Related posts:

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Recenty, I have been chatting with my fellow reefers about certain types of elusive, hard to find corals. Like the Purple Monsters, red acroporas, assie chalices. Why? Because we were lucky enough to get a hold of a larger colony of the Strawberry Shortcake acropora, and a big bertha of a Miami Hurricane chalice.  Quite the [...] Related posts:

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One on the first Newbie lessons in coral care is that your corals (and many other things in reef tanks) can sting you. Most know this and handle their corals with care or even better wear gloves; However what most don’t know (including myself before last week) is that even SPS corals can sting you. [...] Related posts:

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As written in Science Dailyon Jan 10 2010, there is new research that suggests that corals around the world have the ability to rebound from global climate changes. A study by the University of Exeter published on Jan. 11, 2010 in the journal ‘PLoS ONE’, showed that protected reefs were much more resilient to climate changes [...] Related posts:

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If you are into collecting rare sps corals, you must read the entire 14 pages of this thread on Reef Central. It features too many corals that you didn’t even know they exist. And you might find, by accident of course, a few of our own corals  in that thread . So with a clean drool towel [...] Related posts:

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Anyone that has had the pleasure of caring for a urchin knows the answer to this question. “Hey- whats that orange thing in the middle there, is that it’s eye?” Well we all know that in fact the brightly colored area in the middle of all those spikes is not the eye, but then how does this [...] Related posts:

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