Winner of the Canon Rebel XTI Camera will be announced…

The winner of the Canon Rebel XTI Camera will be announced on Oct 1st. The contest now is closed. For those that entered congrats! For those that did not, where have you been?

Tunze Nano Streams 6055 (controllable), Tunze MultiController 7095 in the Reef Builders lab

I received a couple of Tunze Nanostreams in the other day. Everyone has been eager to get an in depth view of these pricey water movers. So I take them to the Reef Builders lab (a 75 Gallon Tank) to…

Japan to build artificial reef for surfers…no no, not like ours

I need to remind you that in Japan, surfing isn’t is a popular sport. How can they make it better? Build a reef. No, not a reef like you have in your aquarium. A reef, which is a pile of…

Red Sea Max tank cycling…dirty, magnet cleaner needed

The Red Sea Max is cycling, I have a few pieces of live rock, and I threw some zoo’s in there. I’ve had this for a little over 2 weeks and have already decided that there are things I really…

The state of the aquarium sump: it is leaking slowly

Earlier I told you that my sump was leaking, the whole reason why I needed to setup the 34 Gallon Red Sea Max tank. It seems that it is leaking underneath the sump, perhaps on the joints. It could even…

The Reef Engine, Symbiodinium-and why you should get to know it

If you haven’t heard of Symbiodinium then don’t worry, not a lot of people have. You can think of Symbiodinium as the heart of your corals, scientists have compiled the world’s first detailed gene expression library for Symbiodinium, the microscopic…