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‘Corynactis viridis’ is the latest HD reef video from Colin and team at Morphologic that shows a corallimorph feeding on plankton. As amazing as this video is, the story of how Colin obtained these corallimorphs from the Mediterranean Sea is quite amazing as well. Read about it below.



The following is a description from the Morphologic Blog...

This past week we finally received our long awaited Corynactis viridis from our good friend Dr. Yvan Perez at the Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie in Marseilles, France. I collected these polyps this past June while diving in the Mediterranean, and Dr. Perez has been culturing them in his lab in the interim. Laurent Foure, the current curator of the Noumea Aquarium in New Caledonia, also collected us several...

3reef Sponsor Underwater World just put up some large Japanese Zoas up on their sponsor board with intense colors and some with over 200 polyps! You can get 10% off as well on these pieces. Heads up! Thanks UWW - those are nice.

See more pics on original thread here:
http://www.3reef.com/forums/underwater-world/uww-update-japanese-zoa-colony-blowout-hurry-81047.html

How on earth Colin from Coral Morphologic dumped these amazing HD reef videos on 3reef the other day and it got by most of us including this 3reefer, I'll never know. No excuse is worthy here. These are amazing. Great work Colin. I think it is safe to say we are paying attention now. Please keep them coming!

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Watching 3reefer Giannis86's Reef Logger evolve over the last couple weeks has been really impressive and deserves a highlight. Now in version .7, this free excel program is loaded with macros and calculators to help you track your aquarium data.



BETA VERSION 0.7:
Unit Conversion calculators
Volume Calculator
Added Equipment Summary
Added navigation buttons in Calculators sheet
Improved macro codes
New button appearance
Added ppm measurement for SG
Fixed Time issue in Settings sheet
Added 30min increments for lighting under Extended Equipment

Full thread and Download links:
http://www.3reef.com/forums/general-reef-topics/reef-logger-beta-0-7-major-update-79722.html

Kudos to Giannis86! Can't wait to see the next version.

matt

Every now and then an aquarium product comes along that earns a spot on the fist shelf. After a few minutes playing around with a Pro Exotics PE-1 Temp Gun this holiday, it quickly took a spot next to the refractometer. That is, once I could put it down.

Pro Exotics PE-1 Temp Gun

One could argue that few things are more important than your aquarium's temperature and it is surprising how often that is an after-thought on even the most advanced setup. Even when taken into account, few to none actually obtain temperature from more than one area of the aquarium. We appear to be comfortable living with a lot of assumptions.

Enter the Pro Exotics PE-1 Temp Gun. The PE-1 Temp Gun is "an infrared thermometer that takes non-contact surface temps of just about any object or liquid, including clear water."



Unlike other thermometers that require time to adjust, you can get a fast reading with the PE-1 as it...