We heard about the Aqua Media Kauderni, the latest version of Aqua Medic’s all-in-one aquariums, in April and were able to swing by the Aqua Medic booth at MACNA to see this aquarium up close. Our first impressions are favorable but we’d feel like the system has some areas that could be improved upon to Read More

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From a hobbyist who was low on funds but big on ideas I DIY’d and hacked my way into this hobby and even DIY’d my way into writing for Reef Builders. There I was six years ago with a brand new 75 gallon aquarium and a limited budget. Tearing through my Drs. Foster & Smith Read More

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Setting up or upgrading your reef aquarium is hard work but despite being time consuming and frustrating, it is one of the most rewarding yet sadistically fun parts of the hobby. One hobbyist set up a camera to capture his aquarium upgrade and put together this fun stop motion montage of the three-day process. YouTube Read More

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The Aqua Medic Kauderni was just announced by the German company as the lastest in its line of plug-and-play aquariums. Continuing on its nomenclature for fish, the Kauderni is named after the Banggai Cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) and packs in a lot of features into the 70-gallon (270 liter) system. The Aqua Medic Kauderni ships complete Read More

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It’s no secret that we love the Lytro light field camera, and we are not the only ones to think that the bleeding edge light field camera is perfect for aquariums. This sequence of shots taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium features a plethora of interesting aquatic light field subjects including leafy seadragons, canonball jellyfish, Read More

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Some of you may know that Google has been scanning books for the last few years and so far they have scanned approximately 15 million books or just a little over 10% of written accounts. Using a subsample of this amount, Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel have created a database of over 500 billion Read More

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B-Box aquarium is one of the select few fish stores always at the forefront of something rare or exciting. This time, with a video of a juvenile Bank’s butterflyfish (Prognathodes aya). While not as rare and not nearly as expensive as the Orange-margin butterflyfish we featured some time back, the bank’s butterflyfish is still an uncommon Read More

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Sometimes we go to extremes in this hobby but few go as far as Jack Heathcote. The UK resident wasn’t satisfied with a simple large aquarium and built what could be considered the largest home aquarium in the country in the basement of his five-bedroom house. The 37-year-old resident of Nottingham built the 12ft 6in x Read More

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It seems some people just can’t resist making aquariums out of mundane, daily items and this is no exception. We came across this interesting post on a Nike Air Max 360 running shoe transformed into an aquarium by taking off the upper part and replacing it with a clear material. Thankfully these are just for show Read More

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The Aquarium Telephone booth is an installation which might make you think again about what vessels are supposed to be used for aquarium fish. Following the quasi-total abandonment of telephone booths due to the ubiquity of cellular phones, artists Benedetto Bufalino and Benoit Deseille decided to re purpose the disused glass boxes of telephone booths. Read More

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