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Sanjay Joshi needs no introduction as most of us grew up following his every word on lighting, his pioneering Penn State reef tank, and his frequent talks and appearances at societies and reef shows. By day Sanjay is a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University and has been on the reefing […]

Cup corals are a fascinating group, but one that is almost never available in the aquarium trade. If you’ve ever encountered this common name before, it was likely misapplied to one of the regularly available dendrophylliids, like Tubastraea, Turbinaria, and Duncanopsammia, but none of these really exemplify the idea of a cup-shaped coral. Rather, the […]

Time for more questions and answers from the mean, green phytoplankton-making machine, Taras Pleskun. Do I need to refrigerate phyto? I would highly suggest refrigerating any live phytoplankton cells that you do not intend on feeding to the aquarium that day. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, the warmer live algae cells are, […]