Lightening Maroon Clownfish finally coming to Blue Zoo Aquatics
Call if karma or the circle of life or whatever you will, but Lightening Maroon Clownfish are finally coming back to Blue Zoo Aquatics. We originally reported that offspring from the original specimen that was captured in Papua New Guinea three years ago were heading to BZA in October and we have confirmed it is finally Read More
Even more images of sexy Dichromatic Trachyphillia
We have a few more stunning images of the dichromatic Trachyphillia Walt Smith was teasing us with yesterday. One of Smith’s employees, Cameron Bee, clarified a bit more information on the coral and then shared a few new images on the company’s Facebook page. The biggest question we had was if the coral was spliced Read More
Ratters Reef from the UK was 218 gallons of stunning coral
We absolutely love large corals, which Ratters Reef definitely had going for it. But beside the gigantic corals we also love the fact that the reef was so grown in. This is not one of those reef systems where the owner bought a bunch of colonies and put them on top of a pretty aquascape Read More
Vertex magnet cleaner Hexaplex brings style to large magnet scrubbers
Much like Vertex Aquaristik‘s other magnet accessories the Vertex Hexaplex magnet cleaner brings some serious class to something that you might not have previously thought of as visually appealing. In essence the Vertex Hexaplex is the big brother of the cleaner magnet triplex, duplex and simplex. This magnet cleaner is designed for much larger tanks, considering the Read More
LED Intelligent Lighting IT2060 the next generation of rebadged LED lights
We like chasing down leads to get to the bottom of stories here at Reef Builders, so when we saw an interesting LED fixture, we starting digging for more information and that led us to this interesting next generation Chinese box LEDs that many vendors are customizing and bringing to market. The name may change Read More
Updates on the divine new Paracentropyge multifasciata x P. venustus hybrid
Few days ago, we shared with you the world’s newest Paracentropyge hybrid to hit the reefing scene. This natural hybrid between the two Indo-pacific Paracentropyge angels (P. venustus and P. multifasciata) is possibly the most stunning creations mother nature has to offer. The last remaining member to this small genus is the illustrious Peppermint Angelfish, Read More
Wine red Dragonets still hot on the wish list despite appearing again in bigger numbers
Call it whatever shade of red you want, but there’s no denying the flaming beauty of these dragonets. We featured the appearance of an unfamiliar dragonet a few months ago that made its appearance in various fish stores worldwide. They are still trickling in from the Philippines, but not enough to satisfy the growing demand Read More
Coral Shop adds new P.R.O.S. protein skimmer to filtration lineup
Coral-Shop has added a few new products to its lineup recently including its new P.R.O.S. protein skimmer to its filtration products. Using the square, boxy shape consistent with its other filter products, the new P.R.O.S. protein skimmer can either be used as a standalone or a hang on the sump. The P.R.O.S uses an AquaBee 2000/1 pump fixed Read More
CAD Lights PLS-50 a perfect pipeless nano skimmer
Besides the news that CAD Lights is releasing larger, conical pipeless protein skimmers we also learned the company has made a nano version of the pipeless skimmer we felt deserved its own post. We’ve noted before how impressed we were with first generation PLS-100 so we have high hopes for the new CAD Lights PLS-50 Read More
CAD Lights adds conical design to larger 2nd generation pipeless protein skimmers
The CAD Lights PLS-100 Pipeless Protein Skimmer flat out worked and with a winner on its hands, the company added a few more sizes to the pipeless skimmer line. Two larger sizes were added taking advantage of a conical design just like the TIA line of protein skimmers. For larger systems that want to take Read More