View in Tiled | On The Cover: THE BOUNCE PHENOMENONLou Schiavo Jr. resides in Orlando, Florida, and is co-owner of World Wide Corals. The Bounce mushroom phenomenon is now well established in our hobby, and as the popularity of these mushrooms continues to grow, we bring you a quick review from the guy who started it all. * CUSTOMIZING A REEF-READY SYSTEM April 22 - Raleigh, NC April 23 - Warwick, RI May 6-7 - Orlando, FL Florida Marine Aquarium Society Frag Swap May 20 - Plantation, FLDiscover the world’s premier marine aquarium magazine and save up to 37% on a personal subscription Hailed by critics as “the world’s best reefkeeping magazine,” CORAL is written by leading aquarium experts and marine biologists, lavishly illustrated with breathtaking images, and filled with ideas and inspiration for beginning to expert reefkeepers. Take advantage of the Special Introductory Offer by following SUBSCRIBE above and get FREE Access to the current Digital Edition, followed by a full year of CORAL — in both beautiful print and read-anywhere digital formats.

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But I don’t have a monopoly on useful or interesting FREE reef aquarium information. I put together this list of the Top 5 FREE Reef Magazine Resources. Top 5 FREE Reef Magazine Resources Advanced Aquarist Magazine–every month, the folks at Advanced Aquarist put out a scientific and relevant reef magazine. Only the most recent issues are free, although older issues are available for a small fee. There is a lot of useful information on this website. It really is a tremendous resource. fish tank plants canadaThe only downside, if there is one, is that the magazine (as labeled) is written for an advanced aquarist audience and the articles are written with a technical/scientific flourish that can read more like a textbook (at times) than a magazine. fish tank gravel manchester

Still, content is king, and this free reef magazine is regal.  publishes a quarterly reef magazine. The articles are accompanied by stunning photography. Perhaps the feature I like best about this free reef magazine is the fact that the articles for each issue are linked to from an index page. It feels like you’ve just opened the reef magazine up to the index–next, you just scan the page for the article you want to read and click to go right to it. Did I mention the awesome photography?fish tank heater dangers Reef Hobbyist is a quarterly publication you can find in some local fish stores and also online. marine fish tank electricity costThe magazine tends to cover a range of fish and coral topics. my fun fish tank diy

I find this publication to be the least aesthetically pleasing of the Top 5, but the content is fresh because the magazine doesn’t cover ‘the same old things’. Reefkeeping Magazine–Published by ReefCentral. If you don’t already know, ReefCentral is a huge online community of reef aquarists. Navigation can be a little bit tricky. My preferred way to navigate is by using their list of articles by topic to find what I want to read about. Redfish is a combination freshwater and saltwater aquarium magazine, published monthly. marine fish tank with sumpOut of all of the options on this list, Redfish is a highly produced magazine that looks fantastic. Of Top 5 Free Reef Magazines, it looks the most like a traditional magazine to me. It reminds me of a Tropical Fish Hobbyist or Aquarium Fish International style magazine. Skim through the hyposalinity stuff (and by that I mean freshwater…) and get to the good stuff.

Tropical Fish Hobbyist–TFH does have a free, no-frills, content-only version of their magazine on the website. The reading experience is not quite the same as a  magazine, per se, but did I mention it’s content-only? UPDATE SINCE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION: A few of the online reef magazine titles mentioned in this post are not published anymore. Even though I can’t control that, I’m sorry about that, because I know that is what a lot of you are looking for. You can still find a lot of great information from the archives of the magazines listed above, thanks to the beauty of the world wide web, nothing is lost. If you know about other free online magazine resources, please leave a comment and let me know, so I can add it. One other major caveat here: if I was to rank the the best coral magazine here, regardless of price, it would have to be Coral Magazine, the bi-monthly aquarium magazine. It is a little bit pricey ($39/year), but is worth it, because every page of coral magazine is written for the coral aquarium hobbyist and the information is high quality.