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Anyone know why pom pom crabs are so notoriously difficult to rear? Google shows a couple of dedicated reefers who have tried with all kinds of complicated equipment. Apparently breeding them is about as easy as it is for any invert, but once the young hatch, it suddenly gets too difficult to...

Trying another in tank propagation of a bleeding apple scoly here in the lab at Koral King. Technique is to shave the underside of the skeleton very close to the flesh without cutting into it and letting the scoly push a baby out the other side. Seen this a few times so figured we’d give it a...

Torch experiment here at Koral King. Cuts performed on 15th of nov, have been healing for 4 days now and is Showing signs of taking the graft successfully. Both fragments have shown good signs of health and healing with no tissue recession or melting. Polyps have been performing feeding...

Grafted scoly experiment here at Koral king, we took a bleeding apple and a warpaint scoly (~2”) and cut them with the diamond saw and grafted them together on the propagation plates. The cuts were performed on the 15th of nov, and have been healing for the past 4 days. One of the grafts shows...

Will the tips of torch corals regrow and create a new torch? My torch coral died from brown jelly disease and it was dropping parts of its tentacles. When I cleaned out the torch after it passed and everything I noticed a couple days later that the tips of the coral and bits and chunks that were...

After an hour of Google, YouTube and Reef2Reef searches I wasn’t finding the quite the answers I was looking for, so apologies if this was asked before. I have a saltwater reef tank and I recently collected a few wild red mangrove saplings that I would like to grow in my reef tank. From what I...