GREEN CORALS at the Fisch & Reptil trade fair, 30.11.-2.12.2018 Our most beautiful corals travelled with us from Braunschweig to stand 148 in Sindelfingen, a total of 60 species, including some rarities: 12 species of Acropora, 12 species of Montipora, Stylophora, Poccillopora, Seriatopora, Porites, Pavona, Pachyseris, Caulastrea, Duncanopsammia, Euphyllia, Acanthastrea, [...]
In 2018 we´re in the tenth year of our Reef Check monitoring program, that Red Sea Diving Safari (RSDS) and @ReefCheckfoundation Team Scientist Stephan Moldzio started in 2009 to conduct regular surveys at the most important dive sites of RSDS. This year we had a full program with two [...]
Reef Check Eco Diver Course at Red Sea Diving Safari, Egypt, July 2018 Wie wäre es damit im nächsten Tauchurlaub … ... to participate in reef investigations and to collect scientific data? Exploring the diversity and relationships in the coral reef and helping to protect the coral [...]
This year the MESSE TIERWELT IN MAGDEBURG celebrated its 10th anniversary. We from GREEN CORALS were there again in hall number three. GREEN CORALS with lots of beautiful, sustainably aquacultured coral in good sizes and at fair prices, snails and algae & our [...]
It's ACROPORA April again! We would like to repeat our 20% discount on all Acropora, Seriatopora, Stylophora from last year: *** 20% off all ACROPORA plus Seriatopora and Stylophora !!!! *** The green Acropora muricata, the robust and fast growing Acropora tumida 'green' and the Acropora sp. 'marineblue' are [...]
The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) has declared the International Year of the Reef (IYOR) for the third time, after 1997 and 2008. As marine aquarists and coral enthusiasts, we are naturally very interested in the "real" coral reefs in nature and their condition. Unlike our mini biotope at [...]
A view from space on Yap shows a green island with dense forests. Yap is not a volcanic island, but part of the largely submerged oceanic Philippine plate (whereas actually most of the Philippines do not belong to this tectonic plate). In the east, the Pacific plate subducts below [...]
Here is a small (but growing) overview of the reef fishes of Micronesia. According to www.fishbase.org (10/2019), a total of 1069 reef fish species from 88 families live in the waters of Micronesia. Note that this list does not include pelagic and deep-sea species of the open ocean.In total, Fishbase [...]
*** Great first MARINE BIOLOGY WEEKS at Manta Ray Bay Resort!*** *** Three different Workshops were successfully conducted in course of the first MARINE BIOLOGY WEEKS at Manta Ray Bay Resort in Yap/Micronesia: One 3-day Marine Biology Workshop “basic”, a 2-day Coral-ID Workshop and a 2-day Marine Biology [...]
