vortech-pump-controllers-1 A trip down memory lane of Ecotech Marine VorTech pump controllers As Ecotech Marine celebrates ten years of business in the reef aquarium scene, I am reminded of how I came to know the once scrappy three young founders Tim, Pat, Justin and first employee Mark. The company cut its teeth on reef tank product engineering with a magnetically stirred kalk stirrer with a built in
Macropharyngodon-marisrubri-head Red Sea leopard wrasse now its own species, Macropharyngodon marisrubri
Hands on with Ocean Nutrition Sep-Art Artemia System

Contest Roundup: Aquarium Specialty/Tunze and Innovative Marine/iPads

We love free things and wanted to share a few of the cool contests going on at the moment. Right now Aquarium Specialty is giving away a Tunze 6095 for a lucky winner and Innovative Marine giving away an iPad along with a monthly NUVO aquarium contest. More details after the break Read More

Two nice contests: Marine Depot Dolphin Tale DVD release contest and Kessil Facebook Promo

There are a couple of nice giveaway promotions going right now just in time for the holidays. First off Marine Depot is teaming up with Warner Home Entertainment around the release of Dolphin Tale to dish out a new TV, Blu-ray™ player and DVDs. Also Kessil is giving away LED lights through an fun promotion Read More

Slim Skim Protein skimmer from Hydor up for grabs

The Slim Skim Performer is still really fresh on the reefing block and while we are evaluating it’s long term performance, we thought we’d go ahead and set up one lucky reefer with a slim skim of their own. The Slim Skim internal protein skimmer is an elegant dark smoked acrylic body with a built Read More

The lucky winner of the G2 Maxspect LED light from Fins Reef is…

Congratulation to Tucker Debord of Worthington, Ohio who was the lucky youngster randomly chosen to be the winner of the G2 Maxspect LED fixture donated by Fins Reef. We are exciting to be making one young hobbyist’s day with this whiz-bang LED fixture and were truly surprised to see the level of interest around this Read More

G2 Maxspect LED light giveaway from Fins Reef for one lucky young reefer

Today on Reef Builders we’re putting one very exciting giveaway where our mouth is: Following the MACNA conference a few weeks back we wrote an editorial which addressed our concern about where all the young reefers have gone. In an effort to practice what we preach, we’re targeting the giveaway of a top of the Read More

one week left to enter the giveaway for the high performance Io LED pendant

This is just a friendly reminder that we’re still running an awesome giveaway for a very valuable reef light. The Io LED pendant includes 75 watts of Cree XP LEDs, full controlability built in display and bluetooth wireless connectivity and we’re giving one away to whomever can send us the best picture of a really Read More

Coral Rx Pro Giveaway, four chances to win an $80 bottle of concentrated coral cleaner

Coral Rx Pro is a concentrated coral dip that is a prophylactic treatment for a wide range of coral pest and parasites. Coral Rx Pro dilutes down to the same cocentration as the Coral Rx coral dip, but it obviously takes less space on the shelf. Normally we’d only have one item to give away Read More

TwinArc halide lamp giveaway, your chance to win a pair

No matter what kind of steam punk mogul base halide set up you are running, Reefbrite and Reef Builders are giving away a pair of Twinarc lamp so your HIDs can get some color switching going on. To bring you up to speed on the Twinarc halide lamp, this little puppy is designed with two Read More

Win ‘em before you can buy ‘em: Next up, Koralia Evo 1050!

We just put up the new Koralia Evo nano pump up for grabs and we’re ready to start our next round for its beefier cousin, the new Koralia Evo 1050. This is one really nice pump pushing out 1,050 GPH at a mere 5W of power and will be a good addition to your larger Read More

Win ‘em before you can buy ‘em: Nano Evo Koralia 240 first up for grabs

Not more than a week after we first got our hands on the few and diminutive Nano Evo Koralias do we receive another special delivery from Hydor. We’ve got a few of these new Evo Koralias chugging away on various systems and we already put them through an intensive examination of the new water pump. Read More