Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:51:39 -0800 http://www.coralpedia.com/ CoralPedia.com en-us http://www.coralpedia.com/images/spacer.gif http://www.coralpedia.com/ Admin@CoralPedia.com http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=37 The 2010 CoralPedia.com calendars are here and shipping! Be sure to get yours today. More information can be found here: CoralPedia.com calendar page Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:51:39 -0800 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=35 CoralPedia welcomes Zoa Collector to the family! ZoaCollector.com, based out of Hawaii, specializes in rare and exotics zoanthids and palys. They've got pieces you just don't find elsewhere! Give the link a click and go check them out: ZoaCollector.com Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:40:27 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=34 Welcome to our newest Council member, Peef! Together, we will be processing the pending submissions here at CoralPedia. Although this post is a few days late (Peef jumped on board earlier this week), welcome, and thank you! :) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:20:58 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=33 We just added a very unique submission to the CoralPedia.com site. Although a bit late on our part, the submitter (spy_i) submitted these Zoanthids that were found in Dubai, UAE (United Arab Emirates)! Spy_i added in their notes that the salinity in Dubai is too high (in the upper 37 to lower 38 psu range) to form reefs and it came as quite a surprise to find Zoanthids there. spy_i wrote: "I currently live in Dubai and [stumbled] upon this zoa on the famous Madinat Hotel (opposite Burj Al Arab Hotel). I was strolling along the hotel's man made creek when I saw like a beehive on the water dikes. [...] I personally collected this Zoa from the man made creek [...]. I never imagined that such life [would] have existed here in the waters of Dubai. I know that the level of salinity is too high that Dubai [doesn't] have any Reefs at all. I was looking around the macro's that [were] growing on the dike when I [noticed] a dark beehive like thing. All I thought was a dark chocolatey sponge. Surprisingly, upon closer inspection, the blue center on the zoo just pierce thru its brown skirts. To my excitement I [quickly] pulled a small colony that was growing on a clam... then I realize this zoo is everywhere with big colonies matting on the side of the man made dikes." Thanks for the submission and special treat, spy_i! You can see spy_i's "Green Eyed Arabs" here: You can see where other corals have been reportedly collected by visiting our CoralPedia's Coral Origins page. Enjoy, -Who Dah? Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:46:57 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=31 CoralPedia welcomes Unique Corals to the family! UniqueCorals.com is the online branch of Manhattan Aquariums, New York City’s finest retail coral destination. They are a site devoted to connecting the ocean’s finest corals with the worlds most demanding aquarists. A random stroll through their site will reinforce this statement as the opportunity to purchase some of the most elusive and wildest coral morphs is presented to you in a scientifically accurate, easy to use manner. Fri, 22 May 2009 22:40:27 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=30 This is a nice treat for Zoanthid aficionados. David Acevedo (Daceman) sent us these images that had all of us drooling! He wrote, "About 4 months ago I was bored so I decided to take 1 polyp of each Nuclear green and Purple death and cut them in half and glue both sides together leaving me with 2 polyps of purple/green polyps on a disc. One died and the other lived." Thanks to David for sharing these nifty shots with us and keep up the mad scientist experiments! Check out rest of the pictures here. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:02:40 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=29 Hello all, We just realized that submissions were not being processed for about the last 2 months!! We apologize and will get working on them ASAP. It will take a little time to catch up, but we are on it. Luckily, no submissions were lost, they were just not being processed. So - our apologies again, and please bare with us as we catch up on all 94 delayed submissions! For those interested, here are the geeky details: We recently migrated web hosts at CoralPedia.com to a faster network. In doing so, we had an IP address change. Our submission system is locked down to authenticate at the IP address level for security reasons (amongst other measures). I forgot to add the new IP address as an authorized IP address to process the tickets. So the submissions just sat there instead of going through our helpdesk system. Once the new IP was authorized, 94 submissions over the last couple of months came rolling in! Thanks, -Who Dah? Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:22:40 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=28 CoralPedia welcomes Rod's Food to the family! Who hasn't heard of the famous Rod's Food?! If you haven't, you're definitely missing out. Packed with ingredients that will make your fish and coral go nuts! I personally have been using it for years now and it is highly recommended. Take the time to properly feed your beautiful livestock and use Rod's Food! Be sure to check out their site for more info. Thank you Rod for the support! Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:59:39 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=27 Nominate us for the Fins Up Award by Doctors Foster & Smith! CoralPedia (ZoaID) has been actively interacting with hobbyists around the world for almost four years now with coral IDs. What began as a fun small project for zoanthid aficionados soon grew into a definitive repository for all named corals. Whether it was through vast galleries of eye candy or nifty articles, we cannot deny that CoralPedia has touched us all at one point or another in this hobby. All of us here at CoralPedia are extremely proud to say that we were able to function as the platform for hobbyists around the world to share pictures of their beautiful livestock and we hope to continue doing so for many years to come. Now we need your vote! Help us get recognized as the source for all your coral identification purposes and more by clicking here or by clicking on the banner below. It takes less than a minute and we would appreciate it very much! Please use the following information when nominating us. Name: CoralPedia Email: vincent@coralpedia.com Pet Supplies - Fish Supplies - Aquariums Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:06:03 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26 CoralPedia welcomes Rocky Mountain Frags to the family! Thank you Jared for the support! Rocky Mountain Frags specializes in everything from high end aquacultured LPS to amazing zoanthid frags. Be sure to check them out! Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:40:06 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 We are proud to share an article with you written by the CoralPedia council that will soon be featured in Reef Hobbyist Magazine! You can see it here: Article #5: Purple Hornets Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:14:31 -0800 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=24 CoralPedia welcomes Air, Water, & Ice to the family! Thank you Cliff, Kristin, Don and Reese for the support! They are generously offering all CoralPedia visitors a 10% discount coupon code : #85886 Here's a brief introduction from Kristin. Air Water & Ice sponsors over 125 clubs nation wide, our products and your passion for coral/fish are a perfect fit. We offer all of you 10% off everything on our web site (use discount code #85886 at the check out cart). The company is run by 4 people. My husband (Cliff) and I, our tech guy Don (who yes, does know it all) and Reese who assembles each unit by hand to to your specifications. This is all done out of our 3,000 square foot warehouse in Ft. Pierce, Florida. We can be reached anytime at (772) 461- 0256 or sales@airwaterice.com. In addition to the 10% discount for individual orders , we offer a 20% group buy discount on all orders of $2000.00. This 20% discount applies to merchandise and shipping costs, you must use one credit card and one shipping address. It can save big bucks. .... Looking forward to pure water, beautiful fish and bright coral. Kristin Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:07:04 -0800 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=23 CoralPedia welcomes Tropicorium Inc. to the family! Thank you Richard, Ray and Bryan for the support! If at one point or another, you found yourself drooling over a nice piece of LPS, chances are these guys were responsible for it. Please check out their site for amazing aquacultured frags and more! For those of you not familiar, they recently released an amazing piece of coral named the "Acid Trip" that's been the hottest topic around the forums. Click the picture below to visit the photo album! Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:01:07 -0800 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22 CoralPedia welcomes Manhattan Aquariums to the family! Thank you Joe & Jackie for the support! They specialize in everything from high quality corals to high end fish. Joe has been in the hobby for over ten years providing excellent service to NYC hobbyists. Soon, they will be launching their brand new website in order to cater to other hobbyists outside of East Coast! Keep an eye out for their new site coming soon. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:10:58 -0800 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=21 CoralPedia welcomes Totally Exotic Corals to the family! Thank you Jody & Keith for the support! Be sure to check out their site for amazing aquacultured frags and more! Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:09:43 -0800 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=20 What a long overdue introduction! CoralPedia welcomes our three new Council members; flyyguy, FateX8, and FaviaFreak! They have been working extremely hard behind the scene working on tickets and improving the site. Thank you for the help fellas and welcome aboard! [officially] :) - CoralPedia Council Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:23:09 -0800 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18 Hello all, After much thought and work, we at ZoaID.com have decided to expand to CoralPedia.com! This expansion will allow us to expand into the incredible world of SPS, LPS, and other coral hobbyist identifications. Additionally, we will be adding a long-term request to the new site: Scientific Identification (Family, Genus, and Species) and color descriptions to all new submissions! These identifications will be to the best of our ability and we will be adding a few new council members experienced in coral identification. We will be going back and adding identification to older submissions as well. We are very excited about this expansion and hope that you are too! The site has been migrated to the new domain, and we continue to complete that migration even as you read this. If you find any bugs, please let us know by using the 'Contact Us' link on the left-hand menu. As of the time stamp on this writing, there are over 320 Zoanthid submissins and only a few LPS and SPS submissions. We expect these numbers to grow quickly to over 50 entries within the next month, and the sky is the limit from there! We are now accepting submissions for all corals, so feel free to send us your tank shots and flash shots of your favorite named corals! Thank you, - CoralPedia.com council Sun, 25 May 2008 14:24:45 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=17 This news article is a bit overdue, and my apologies for it's tardiness. ZoaID.com has brought on a new council member to assist with the site. And man, he came on and cleared our backlog of submissions in a matter of just a couple of weeks! He has been a *huge* asset to ZoaID.com. Welcome kigs! And thank you very much! -Who Dah? Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:16:25 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=16 Hello all! ZoaID.com has put a few Zoanthids up on eBay that were in the 2007 calendar (You can see the 2007 calendar using the left-hand menu). They were generously donated by that month's Zoanthid owner. 100% of the proceeds from these auctions will be used toward lowering the price of the 2008 calendar! If you would like to partake in the auctions, you may see them here: 2007 ZoaID.com Calendar Auctions If you have any questions, feel free to use the 'Contact Us' link on the left hand menu! Thanks! -Who Dah? Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:37:15 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=15 Hello all! Just a quick note to apologize for the recent delays and to let you know that we are in the process of catching up! Summer time hit the entire ZoaID.com council and our free time went out the window. Me personally? I've been getting SCUBA certified! The Mrs. and I are now PADI Rescue Diver certified! Things are settling down now and we're playing catch up! Expect to see a ton of new submissions in the upcoming weeks as we catch up on the backlog of submissions. Thanks! -Who Dah? Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:13:03 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14 ZoaID.com would like to take a moment and say THANK YOU and WELCOME to our two latest ZoaID.com council members: MarvinsReef and revhtree Both members are pillars in the Zoanthid community and were both eager to join and eager to help ZoaID! (It only cost each of them 3 morphs to join!) (Kidding of course! ) Welcome aboard, fellas! -Who Dah? Sun, 06 May 2007 21:25:49 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13 ZoaID.com would like to welcome Mr. Ugly as a new member of the ZoaID.com council! Mr. Ugly has helped many people in the zoanthid community time & time again, has a great knowledge base from which to draw upon, and will be an asset to help make ZoaID.com a better place. He was hand chosen for these traits plus more! Welcome aboard Mr. Ugly, it's great to have you here! -Who Dah? Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:33:47 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12 We thought CoralPedia.com would start something new - the CoralPedia.com Photo of the Month! (POTM) The POTM will be a monthly shot chosen by the CoralPedia.com council as their favorite photo submitted to CoralPedia.com for that month. The winning photo will not necessarily be a newly named coral submission to the CoralPedia.com site. Photographs of already named corals or other coral-genre material are constantly being submitted and added to the CoralPedia.com site - and we don't want to exclude those shots from the POTM! So enjoy the new feature, and see what we like the best! The winner will be published on the CoralPedia.com homepage. As a reminder, you can click on the left-hand menu titled 'Changelog' and see all new submissions (newly named submissions or just new shots) added to the site at any time. In fact, this is exactly what the CoralPedia.com council uses to preview the shots submitted for that month! Enjoy, -Who Dah? Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:16:42 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11 James (jreimer) is a researcher from Japan specializing in Zoanthids/Zooxanthellae. Recently, James hit the RC Zoanthid community with a wealth of scientific identification knowledge and interesting Zoanthid identification news. He is currently trying to use DNA to bring zoanthid taxonomy up-to-date. He has been so kind as to share some of his pictures with all of us and recently accepted ZoaID.com's offer to host his scientific identification images on our hobbyist identification site! We've setup a special section in our gallery for his current shots with lots of room to grow! Not only is the scientific identification extremely interesting, his shots are incredible as well! Please check them out here: jreimer's gallery Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:13:20 -0700 http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10 A 'bug' was recently pointed out to me regarding the owners of the shots/albums on ZoaID.com. It wasn't so much a 'bug' so much as a 'feature', but I can totally see how it could have been misinterpreted! Basically, each album/photo would display an 'Owner' tag at the top right of the page. This 'Owner' represented who did the uploading to the ZoaID.com site. For instance, 'Mr. Smith' submitted a shot to ZoaID.com, and 'whodah' uploaded the shot. The site previously showed 'whodah' as the 'Owner' and 'Mr. Smith' as the photographer, original ID'er, etc.. It was never our intentions to take credit for the Zoanthid shots. In fact, we take pride in having permission to use each and every picture while giving credit where credit is due for each individual shot here on ZoaID.com! It took a while longer than anticipated, but I've figured out how to disable that 'Owner' tag to put the issue to rest. I apologize for the confusion and hope that those who noticed this bug understand! Here is a screenshot of the issue: Owner 'bug' on ZoaID.com Thanks, -Who Dah? Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:55:44 -0700