Our good friend Tony “Tuba Taha” Vargas is putting the finishing touches on his new book The Coral Reef Aquarium which will focus on start to finish of how to set up a slammin reef tank. Coral and Fish identification…
Vitrea nano desktop reef sports a sweet overhanging LED light design
The Vitrea desktop nano aquarium is a sexy box of reefing that Vitrea USA showed off for the first time in the US at last week’s MACNA. The Vitrea nano comes as a standard glass cube or another version has…
PE Mysis available in blister cube 4oz packs
As if having mysis shrimp available with Reef Nutrition’s goodness formula via Mysis Feast was good enough already, Piscine Energetics has released their popular mysis shrimp in blister pack form. This is the same freshwater mysis that you’ve bought before,…
Purely H2O combines RO/DI flow restrictor and flush valve into one small, ingenious product
Every so often you come across a simple, yet ingenious product that makes the reef geek inside you just smile and glow and the nifty combination RO/DI flow restrictor and flush valve by Purely H2O is just genius. Available in…
MACNA XXII – Matt Pedersen’s Story
I hope to see my fellow Reef Builders contributors jump in and share their take on MACNA 2010 in the coming days. Seeing the annual pilgrimage to the marine aquarium hobby’s nomadic mecca through multiple points of view may offer…
Vertex Aquaristik Libra Dosing Pump system coming in November
Vertex Aquaristik is scheduled to release the Vertex Libra Dosing Pump system come this November. The Libra Dosers will be available in three models “Libra”, Libra Classic, and Libra Pro. The models start out like any old dosing pump called…
The art of Photobombing with John Ciotti
[youtube width=”625″ height=”445″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmkfuNnv28M[/youtube]The art of photobombing can be a complicated one. The trick is, of course, to get unsuspecting persons to pose for a photo while the photobomber has a completely different pose in the background. After the MACNA 2010…
Blue Moon Aquatics LED pendants coming in October
The Blue Moon Aquatics LED pendant lights we gave you a glimpse of earlier this year are going to start shipping in October. The first generation of these lights will come with an adjustable tank-mounted bracket but could also be…
MACNA 2011 show floor already 80% sold
You might have read about the next MACNA being hosted in Des Moines, Iowa. The event, to be held next year on September 9-11, marks the first time, in a very long time that Macna will be on the western…
ProFilux Touch from GHL spied in person
GHL thought it wise to show off their new ProFilux Touch interface device. The Touch that GHL had on display at MACNA was a prototype with the functionality limited to only two buttons. We’ve been following the Touch and first…
