The holidays are just around the corner and we at ReefBuilders thought we would help you out with some great ideas for inexpensive, yet really useful gifts. Sure we all probably add a new controller, lights or skimmer to our wishlist but sometimes it’s the little gifts that can make as much of a punch. [...]
The PAR 38 lamp is rapidly becoming a gateway product for many newcomers to LED aquarium lighting. We’ve been fortunate to have a few of these lamps to try out for several weeks now and after this period we’ve seen solid color and growth of our corals. This past Monday Nano-Customs announced that the PAR [...]
The Resplendent angelfish, Centropyge resplendens, is one of the most highly sought after pygmy angelfish species in the world. Hailing only from Ascension Island in the isolated center of the Atlantic Ocean, the resplendent angelfish was once a commonly available species in the marine aquarium trade. Once upon a time you could walk into any [...]
Focus stacking and stereoscoping imaging are some unique new ways to take your photography further. Not many things make me stand back and say “wow”, but that was recently the case. The reason for this was the discovery of a program called Helicon Focus. Now, if you are like me and have a [...]
The California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium recently became the first aquarium in the U.S. to successfully breed Sepia bandensis, more commonly known as dwarf cuttlefish. Pioneered by Academy marine biologist and Reef Builders’ own Rich Ross, the breeding program has reared over 350 dwarf cuttlefish with most being distributed to other aquariums and research [...]
Green Fluorescent Protein is one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable fluorescent colors in soft and stony corals. In some cases the GFP is expressively produced, sometimes it’s a byproduct and recently reef aquarists have observed a third phenomenon involving GFP: infection. GFP “infection” describes the spread of a solid fluorescent green color through the [...]
Tuamotu Maxima clams are the hottest thing to hit the Tridacna reef scene since the Maxea hybrids from earlier in the year. This past week a shipment of large magnificent Tridacna maxima was imported into the U.S. by Pacific Aqua Farms from atoll lagoons of East Tuamotu, a very special ecoregion for Maxima clams that [...]
Ultra Low Nutrient System or ULNS is a load of crap made up by people who don’t understand the words “Ultra” and “System”. The ULNS moniker was pulled from the ether with no understanding of how a reef ecosystem works. We are skewering the concept here and now because the name alone is totally misleading [...]
Prisma Canvas is a new enterprise that showcases the reef aquarium art by the extremely talented Kaitlyn Cameron. We had the great pleasure to view some of her work at the CRASE event this past event and you can imagine how good the illustrations must have been to tear us away from our precious live [...]
Solid Vodka Dosing is a relatively new concept from a company called NP Biopellets. The carbon source-infused polymer beads are meant to grow bacteria in layers that could usher in a revolutionary new way to manage nutrients in aquarium water. If it works. We say “if” because although the idea and principles for solid vodka [...]
