I believe so, the one with the lighthouse. At the north edge of pompano.
Check out these Florida Hard Corals!
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Love to see what you are doing here, especially for a 2nd generation Native, and I am almost 48, lol. The research and love you show for corals and our reefs gives me a breath of fresh air. My grandparents spent summers, for many years, vacationing in the keys, I was lucky myself to grow up and see the reefs back then. Have been a saltwater lover all my life, and greatly appreciate you and your team's passion for restoring our valuable reefs, no doubt ensuring generations ahead are afforded this beauty, and clean waters 
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Forget to mention, awesome job with those corals, simply amazing to see
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For those of you who may not know, summer is when many corals undergo a mass spawning event. Tonight was the spawning for a major reef building species Montastrea cavernosa. It was also the first time ever that a mass spawning event was documented on a mesophotic reef. This dive took place in the Flower Garden Banks in the Gulf of Mexico and the entire dive was live streamed and also recorded. I’ve attached the link so that anybody interested can tune in and watch. They should also be streaming another spawning happening tomorrow so this could be really exciting! Hope you all enjoy!
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I was lucky enough to witness this firsthand in the late 60’s. My father and I ran a dive charter boat out of Port Arthur, Tx specializing in oilfield platform diving and weekend trips to the Flower Gardens. I am an old man now but I still vividly remember the event. Picture of me getting ready to throw the marker buoy on the Flower Gardens.
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I believe they are quite adaptable, given the changes aren’t too dramatic.
Love to see what you are doing here, especially for a 2nd generation Native, and I am almost 48, lol. The research and love you show for corals and our reefs gives me a breath of fresh air. My grandparents spent summers, for many years, vacationing in the keys, I was lucky myself to grow up and see the reefs back then. Have been a saltwater lover all my life, and greatly appreciate you and your team's passion for restoring our valuable reefs, no doubt ensuring generations ahead are afforded this beauty, and clean waters
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I’m glad you are enjoying and appreciating what we do! If you happens to still live in Florida you can always come see the Visitors center and look at the tanks in person as well as learn about the rest of our research! Thank you for the great compliments!Forget to mention, awesome job with those corals, simply amazing to see
I can’t imagine how cool that must be to see in person! You are truly lucky!I was lucky enough to witness this firsthand in the late 60’s. My father and I ran a dive charter boat out of Port Arthur, Tx specializing in oilfield platform diving and weekend trips to the Flower Gardens. I am an old man now but I still vividly remember the event. Picture of me getting ready to throw the marker buoy on the Flower Gardens.
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Beautiful sticks Brandon!New stags for my Acro garden!
I am seeing orange with purple swirls in those stags. Not brown...
I think they’re unique and awesome! I would like to see a macro of that color interaction!
I can see the brown is looking a little purplish in spots, but orange?
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I think the colors everyone is seeing are being affected by the LEDs. I know we are all accustomed to seeing bright and colorful corals on this forum but these truly are brown. That being said I’m really glad that some naturally beautiful (and brown) corals are getting some attention for a change! I really love the Caribbean coral reefs and they have a very hypnotic beauty about them so I’m happy people are enjoying them! To show you what I mean here is a few all 6500k T5 shots showing the true colors. Btw Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
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Haven’t posted in a while so I wanted to share some stuff. The first picture is the colony of Staghorn that all of our frags are from. This is at the St. Lucie Aquarium which is part of the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce. So of course I have to thank Bill Hoffman for all of his help with these corals!
A close up of a few of our mini-colonies.
And a quick dive through our Acro Garden!
A close up of a few of our mini-colonies.
And a quick dive through our Acro Garden!
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A few top downs during my WC this week. Enjoy!
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Thanks! I think it’s just a trick of the LEDs honestly. Under the 10k T5s that purple color totally disappears and they look exactly like the characteristic Florida Staghorn.
Lol they’re fuzzy aren’t they!?!
I don’t think there’s a coral under there. (╭ರᴥ•́)
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I feed the tank as a whole I guess. There are around 15 fish that get 4 double rounds of pellets a day from an ehiem feeder and a mix of 8 different frozen foods a day. Then maybe 2 or 3 times a week I feed a mix of phytoplankton and powdered zooplankton to the tank. Do the acros eat any of it? Your guess is as good as mine but I’m sure they benefit in the way of all the fish poop!
Wow lots of new growth! Bueatiful. I love stags.
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Thanks! Me too! It doesn’t happen often but it’s always so cool when my blue chromis swim through the branches.
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See they do it sometimes! Lol
Going to need to frag soon they are reaching the surface!
Mother and polyp bailout baby lol.
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