The top public aquarium in North America is in Springfield, Missouri
As the official kickoff to the summer travel season is here, we thought we’d share this interesting article from the USA Today as part of the publication’s 10Best series, that names the to…
African Flameback Angelfish Successfully Bred by Sustainable Aquatics
Despite being one of my personal favorite pygmy angelfishes, we’ve never really had a great reason to write about African flameback angelfish, until now. In an unexpected video release Sustainab…
Artificial Rock From ATS Looks Better Than The Real Thing
As long as the reef aquarium hobby has used live rock, reefers have been trying different ways to make their own. We’ve seen a lot of different offerings from ‘aragocrete’ to Real Re…
30 Day Count Down – Reef-A-Palooza New York 2018
Reef-A-Palooza New York takes place June 23 & 24, 2018, at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, NJ. 2018 marks the 4th year the show has returned to the Tri-State Area. Reef-A-Palo…
Eheim SkimMarine 100 & 300 Nano Protein Skimmers
Eheim has a pair of new nano protein skimmers called the SkimMarine 100 and larger SkimMarine 300. Both of Eheim’s new nano skimmers are designed for internal use using magnets to affix themselv…
True Pink Tipped Euphyllia paradivisa Is Rarer than You Think
Euphyllia paradivisa, is a popular aquarium coral commonly know as branching frogspawn coral. You can find it for sale online and in most reef aquarium shops along with other branching and wall type E…
Complete Walkthrough Videos of InterZoo 2018
If you’re a regular reader of Reef Builders, there’s a good chance you’ve got a clinical case of FOMO. Fear of Missing Out is a condition you can live with, especially when we have t…
Reef145’s tank is stylish — and an equipment lover’s dream
This tank of Reef145 is a sweet design by Sam Slobusky of New Orleans-based Wet Work that is built around a custom Elos 160 gallon tank and features a who’s who of cool aquarium tech. When …
Playful New Z5 & Z6 Protein Skimmers from Bubble Magus
The Bubble Magus Z5 & Z6 are a pair of new protein skimmers from the Chinese company which look like toys, but in the most playful and useful manner possible. Everything but the base of the Bubble…
Face to Face with the $18K Debelius Angelfish
The Debelius is one of the rarest and most elusive of all the Pygmy angelfish. Despite writing about this species for nearly a decade, we had never seen a living specimen until a few weeks ago in Germ…
Reef145’s tank is stylish — and an equipment lover’s dream
Red Sea is going down the intelligent aquarium path with line of connected devices
We recently covered the new Red Sea ReefDose and Red Sea ReefWave from InterZoo and in case you didn’t connect the dots, Red Sea is going down the int…
Aquatop adds LEDs to magnetic algae scrubber, can we innovate the algae scrubber any more?
Aquatop added LEDs to a magnetic algae scrubber and seeing the new product led us questioning can we innovate the magnetic algae scrubber any more? Fi…
Complete Walkthrough Videos of InterZoo 2018
If you’re a regular reader of Reef Builders, there’s a good chance you’ve got a clinical case of FOMO. Fear of Missing Out is a condition you can live with, especially when we have t…
Clownfish
Mocha Storm Clownfish is Sea & Reef’s second Designer Storm Clownfish
The Black Storm Clownfish may have taken a few moons to be released to the aquarium public but the Mocha Storm is hot on its heels. The hotly anticipa…
aberrant angelfish
Blue Skeleton Majestic Angelfish Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen!
Every now and then a very special reef fish that we’ll never forget pops up on our rare fish radar, and the ‘Blue Skeleton’ Majestic…
New Species
Arachnanthus lilith, A New Species of Tube Anemone from the Red Sea
Fish, corals and giant clams get the lion’s share of the attention in our reef tanks but there’s a whole world of interesting anemone…
Gear
Reef145’s tank is stylish — and an equipment lover’s dream
This tank of Reef145 is a sweet design by Sam Slobusky of New Orleans-based Wet Work that is built around a custom Elos 160 gallon tank and featu…
