The new Avast Marine CS3 Cone Skimmer Kit is an ideal way to get a stellar protein skimmer at a great price while satisfying your appetite for DIY. The CS3 cone skimmer is probably one of Avast Marine’s best ‘YouBuilt’ line of assembly-required aquarium products offering an incredible value for the mechanically inclined. Coming in either Read More

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One thing we enjoy seeing around are unique modifications to anything related to aquariums. Regardless of if its a DIY skimmer made from a traffic cone to adding a beefier pump to an archaic filter, we love us some mods! The holy grail of mods might just be those everyday objects that get turned into Read More

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AVAST Marine Works has added another dimension to its DIY product kits with the release of the SeaBones Calcium Reactor Kit. The kit has all the things you need to assemble and create a durable calcium reactor while saving a few bucks to spend on another piece of gear or that new coral you’ve been Read More

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We covered the launch of Build My LED at MACNA, a DIY approach to designing and customizing an LED fixture but allowing the experts to put it together for you, and found out they have added two new lengths of LED lights available along with sharing an advanced tutorial on exactly how the process works. Read More

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Whether it is the  $1 Mame Nano skimmer, or the traffic cone skimmer we’re big fans of cheap, DIY protein skimmers. Rather than the ghetto fabulous skimmers we covered previously however, the skimmer built in this tutorial is totally legit. The tutorial is mostly in Mandarin, but contains enough pictures to be comprehensible even without Read More

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AquaInno, previously known as SMDAquaristik, has come up with their own high end solution to DIY modular aquarium fixtures called the AquaInno I and AquaInno II. There are plenty of DIY LED fixtures on the market, but these are different. Not only do these fixtures appear to offer superb build quality, putting these together should 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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Welcome to another fun Friday Smorgasbord post with some of the fun items we’ve stumbled across on the web the last week. First off we’ve seen quite a few Facebook postings of a LEGO whale shark and a little digging has discovered that the LEGO Pavilion at the Nasu Highland Park amusment park in Nasu, Tochigi, Read More

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This short video show a pretty clever modification to automatically adjust the height of your light fixture. Looks like some pretty great DIY ingenuity that would allow you to raise or lower the fixture to either adjust the intensity or get into the system for cleanup or maintenance. From the look of the system, there Read More

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A company by the name of ElecFreaks has come up with a great variation on the tried and trued protoboard that many of us work with for DIY and prototype electronics (LED drivers, Arduino based controllers, etc…), but tries to solve a lot of the shortcomings of what exists on the market today. Calling it Read More

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