Coral Magazine

24/01/2025

Start your weekend off right with a look at three rare deepwater reef fish, thanks to the efforts of Brian D. Greene!

Scientist-explorer Brian D. Greene publishes an exceptional video from offshore Easter Island documenting the Easter Island Butterflyfish (Chaetodon litus), the Easter Damselfish (Chrysiptera rapanui), and the Blackear or Easter Island Angelfish (Centropyge hotumatua).

23/01/2025

Today, The Biota Group has announced successful commercial-scale production of captive-bred Pacific Blue Tangs (Paracanthurus hepatus) after a five-year effort, transforming sporadic captive breeding into consistent, large-scale aquaculture production for the aquarium trade.

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Today, The Biota Group announced that a five-year effort to commercialize the aquaculture of the Pacific Blue Tang, Paracanthurus hepatus, has transformed sporadic offerings of captive-bred Blue Tang into consistent, reliable commercial-scale aquacutlure production for the aquarium trade. Image cred...

22/01/2025

Proposed legislation would make it illegal in Iowa to own virtually any species of shark deemed suitable for the home aquarist.

Proposed legislation would make it illegal in Iowa to own virtually any species of shark deemed suitable for the home aquarist.

10/01/2025

We hope to bring you more of this story in the future, but for this evening, join us in congratulating the Aquarium Sciences students at Central Campus Marine Sciences Program / Central Campus DSM for their amazing accomplishment of breeding the Lemonpeel Angelfish in their high school lab! This program continues simply amaze us, making us all want to go back to high school again!

High-school students in the heart of Iowa succeed in breeding the Lemonpeel Angelfish in the Central Campus Marine Aquarium Sciences Lab, about as far away from the ocean as one can get! It's a feat usually only accomplished by dedicated commercial efforts!

28/12/2024

SCAM ALERT! It's come to our attention that a new website has appeared, offering insanely massive discounts on CORAL Magazine subscriptions. It even claims that these codes were used successfully, sometimes thousands of times. There is no 65% off CORAL offer in existence, nor any way that it's been used 1440 times.

The only places to order CORAL Magazine subscriptions are through our AquaticMediaPress.com website and the subscription management software we utilize, Subscription Genius. Any promotional codes or sales that we run require your purchase to be made through these channels!

If you become aware of any subscription sale offer that doesn't look legit or looks too good to be true, please don't hesitate to ask us about it at [email protected]

20/12/2024

VIDEO INSIDE LOOK at the Jan/Feb '25 issue of CORAL Magazine, ROCK YOUR REEF!

A video preview of highlights in CORAL Magazine's January/February 2025 Issue. Paid CORAL Subscribers can log in with their email address and read the Digital Edition starting January 14th, 2025.

18/12/2024

This Sunday? See you there!

14/12/2024

If you're free, head over to Melev's Reef, Inc. on YouTube starting at 2:08pm CST and join Marc Levenson and Alex Rose for their year in review livestream. Come say hi and heckle them! Err ask them reasonable questions...
https://youtube.com/?si=MopNCSTU5uuA-MPf

13/12/2024

Seeming to stretch to the horizon, this colony of Galaxea astreata was discovered in Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia, and covers an area of over 4000 square meters. If confirmed through further testing, it would lay claim to the title of “World’s Largest Coral”, surpassing the recent headline-grabbing global news of a massive Pavona clavus coral discovered in the Solomon Islands. See more at

Only a few weeks after a remarkable colony of Pavona clavus, claiming the title of the world’s largest coral was found and measured in the Solomon Islands, another giant coral colony was measured in Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia, and discovered to be even bigger.

07/12/2024

Time is short! Coral Magazine's 2024 Holiday Gift Bundle goes away after December 8th!

There's more time left for the Amazonas Magazine Gift Bundle, our sister freshwater publication!

Shop all gift bundles, sales, back issues and subscription options at https://www.aquaticmediapress.com/shop/

04/12/2024

Less than ONE WEEK to subscribe and start with the January/February 2025 issue - ROCK YOUR REEF! www.coralmagazine.com/subscribe for all your options!

If you're giving the GIFT OF CORAL this season, our 2024 Give Bundle is available through this Sunday, December 8th! https://www.aquaticmediapress.com/shop/coral-magazine-subscriptions/2024-coral-gift-bundle/

16/11/2024

Give your favorite reefkeeper an aquarium gift that won't die and lasts all year long! Our 2024 Holiday Gift Bundle is available now through December 8th! Exclusively on our webstore at https://www.aquaticmediapress.com/shop/coral-magazine-subscriptions/2024-coral-gift-bundle/

12/11/2024

Last week, over 300 captive-bred (aquacultured) Yellow Tangs were released into the waters of Hawaii by the Oceanic Institute of Hawaii Pacific University as part of a first-ever stock-enhancement/ecosystem restoration effort that didn't involve a foodfish or gamefish. Get a summary of the story, watch video of the release, and links to more details, all at

The Oceanic Institute (OI) of Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) released over 300 aquacultured yellow tangs into the wild in a first-ever stock-enhancement effort of a non-foodfish, non-gamefish species. Image credit: The Ohana, Hawaii Pacific University.

11/11/2024

ORA - Oceans, Reefs & Aquariums announced today that they are now producing and offering the very rare Oman Clownfish. Get the story -

For decades, the Oman Clownfish (Amphiprion omanensis) has been part of an exclusive clownfish species group—the unobtainables (aka. “Amphiprion unobtainiatum“, per Quality Marine’s Kevin Kohen). The biogeography of these species puts them squarely into the category of fishes that are not ne...

10/11/2024

Hey CORAL Magazine fans...did you know there's a sister-publication for the freshwater aquarium hobby? Check out the forthcoming issue of AMAZONAS, the first installment for 2025! You can subscribe by Monday, November 11th, to start with this issue! We even have a great AMAZONAS + CORAL bundle that we started this year, saving you even MORE (if you're already a CORAL subscriber, the bundle will add 6 more issues to your existing CORAL subscription!). See all the options at https://www.amazonasmagazine.com/subscribe

DON'T MISS IT! The first issue of 2025 heads to the printer soon! Subscribe or renew by Monday, November 11th, to start with this issue! It arrives starting in early December. https://www.amazonasmagazine.com/subscribe

After Monday, the first issue of a new or restarted AMAZONAS subscription will be March/April 20251

03/11/2024

A proposed pet ban that would include aquarium keeping is up for vote in just a couple of days in Burlington, Vermont. This one hits a little close to CORAL's (former) home, the region where many of our staff still reside.

Burlington is considering a ban on all “exotic animals.” This ban includes fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, small mammals, and any animal that is not specifically exempted from the definition of “exotic animal”.