An Introduction:

Reefism is an outlet for my musings and photography: I am studying and working as a marine scientist and currently cultivate corals and other marine organisms in a high tech 900x900x400mm reef tank at home, and soon will be cultivating corals in a much larger system at the ANU.
Keep watching this space for my photographs and other information about my reefing practices

Wednesday, June 23, 2010





Welcome to Reefism:
I thought I would start off this blog with some phot
os of my reef inhabitants up close and personal:



Small Polyp Stony corals are by far my favorite, this is my largest and oldest Stylophora colony which has increased in size approx 500% over the year and a half that it has been in my care


Another small polyp Stony coral: this pink birds nest (seritopora) grows into a twisted and intertwined mass


A Pacific Sailfin Tang, my least camera shy fish who is always inquisitive as to what the camera is doing near his tank, presumably he thinks it is food...



This chap is a non-photosynthetic Gorgonan, typically these corals live on the side of sea mounts or steep underwater cliffs, they sit in the nutrient rich upwelling currents sifting out tiny particles of food to sustain themselves



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