Articles tagged: soft corals
- Basics
Soft Corals — What They Are and What You Need to Know Before Your First Purchase
The basics of soft corals: biology, main groups, palytoxin warning, and what 'easiest group' really means.
- Deep dive
Soft Corals in the Reef Tank
A deep dive into soft corals: biology, main groups, lighting, flow, allelopathy, nutrients, mixed reef, propagation and troubleshooting.
- Basics
Coral Groups: LPS, SPS, and Soft Corals
A beginner's guide to the three coral groups — what they are, how they differ, and the order in which to approach them.
- Practice
LPS, SPS, and Soft Corals in Practice
A practical guide to parameters, placement, allelopathy, feeding, and mixed-reef technique for each coral group.
- Practice
Coral Cutting and Propagation in Practice — Tools, Techniques, and Recovery
A practical guide to cutting and propagating corals: the right tools, techniques by coral group, gluing methods, plug selection, and how to manage the recovery period.
- Deep dive
Iodine and Bromine in the Reef Aquarium — the halogens that rarely get measured
Iodine speciation (iodate, iodide, organic), bromine's role in skeletal construction and chromoprotein synthesis, deficiency and overdose symptoms, supplementation, and measurement.
- Practice
Allelopathy — chemical competition in a closed system
Allelopathy in the reef aquarium: where it comes from, how it manifests, and how to manage it with activated carbon, ozone and placement.
- Deep dive
Allelopathy — molecular-level chemical ecology
The biochemistry of allelopathy: terpenoid structure, the cembranoid family, macroalgal isoprenoids and the mechanism of action at the coral cell level.