All Posts by "Jake Adams"
Where LED spotlights dominated the frontier of aquarium lighting in 2009-2010, recently the LED striplight has taken over as the fastest growing segment of the lighting market. If you needed any evidence of this you need only turn to BuildMyLED and the level of sophistication that they are offering the aquarium LED light buyer. BuildMyLED’s Read More
The South Pacific Ocean is a hotbed of new species right now with Plectranthias flammeus just the latest visually striking reef fish to be thoroughly described. Discovered living in the waters of the Marquesas Islands around French Polynesia, unlike many other newly described Plectranthias, P. flammeus occurs in the relatively shallow waters of 20-45 meters (65-150ft) deep. Read More
Aquarama 2013, the largest aquarium event of the year will take place the end of this month in Singapore. From May 30th to June 2nd, the Asian aquarium hobby, community and industry will converge on the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Center for a concentration of Asia’s best aquarium entities. Two years ago Reef Read More
You know that the aquarium is growing and doing well when complicated product lines like aquarium controllers are still being developed and engineered. Case in point is a new outfit in Italy called Smart Reefs which just put itself out there in the most light weight fashion possible. With just a landing page to their Read More
Oculus Aquatics, once a fine dealer of killer corals, sent out an email this morning announce their imminent closure effective today. Oculus had a good run in their heyday and brought in a lot of neat livestock in its four year run. However, Oculus’s time is up and should you find yourself desperately in need Read More
Bodianus hogfish are totally hot right now with B. paraleucosticticus occsionally showing up, peppermint hogfish are now being collected in two flavors: an Indian Ocean Bodianus opercularis and Pacific Ocean B. neopercularis forms. Meanwhile in Japan Blue Harbor has been enjoying a brilliant yellow hogfish from the South Pacific that looks more or less like Read More
The Radiant LED L4a series 10 fixture by HelioSpectra of Sweden is a new high tech LED light aimed at high level research. Just about really, really nice fancy feature you can think of has been packed into the clusters of LEDs which were selected for horticultural use. The Heliospectra Radiant LED L4a series 10 Read More
Tea Yi Kai aka LemonLemon is one of the most prolific aquarium writers the web has ever seen, and we are fortunate that he decide to hang his hat within the ‘pages’ of Reef Builders. Being from Singapore and having turned 21 last week, Lemon has been neck deep in his mandatory military conscription with Read More
A coral by and large is a colony of polyp animals that is attached to the reef – it sits there, grows onto the reef, sometimes it breaks off but it’s supposed to re-attach or at least stabilize itself. Not so with the endless Goni discovered rolling around Australia like a tumbleweed. Although some corals Read More
The Kalk King is not just a new product but it could also be eligible for a new product category, brought to you by E-Fins, makers of the Algae Mower Vac that we also didn’t know we needed. Simply put the Kalk King is a kalkwasser doser for adding saturated limewater to your reef tank Read More
