Reef Builders Editor’s Choice: best products of 2012

We had a great deal of numerous and diverse marine aquarium products to tell you about last year. Many products are incremental upgrades to existing products lines and just another addition to existing categories. Some other products however, refine and redefine product…

2012 Marine Breeder’s Year in Review

As has become a tradition, it’s time again for a look back at the past year’s advances in marine fish breeding with our annual Marine Breeder’s Year In Review.  (see 2010, and 2011 Part 1, and 2011 Part 2, for…

Top 20 new reef fish species of 2012

Every year we look forward to all kinds of new corals, reef fish and products in the marine aquarium hobby but 2012 was an especially rich year for new taxa of various bony reef fish. Like most years we saw…

Five things reef aquarists can expect in 2013

2012 was a good year for the aquarium industry, and companies kept the team of writers at Reef Builders more than busy by releasing post worthy new products. LED lighting is inching towards being the mainstream lighting technology, we saw…

Top 5 LED lights for nano reef aquariums in 2012

2012 has been a really good year for the reef and marine aquarium hobby. We’ve seen all manner of exciting reef fish, new species of soft and stony corals, and the newly released products were so abundant that this year…

Five most interesting new coral species described in 2012

From cave-dwelling corals to a new species of the popular Euphyllia coral, 2012 was a very good year for completely unknown stony corals. Some have never been and will never be seen in reef aquaria, while others are prime candidates…

The 5 hottest reef aquarium fish of 2012

Two thousand twelve saw a lot of great new developments in the reef and marine aquarium hobby, and we were graced with an especially good twelve months of awesome rare fish. This year saw some uber rare species become available…