If you’ve been “around the block” a few times in this hobby, you’ll often hear fellow hobbyists dispensing words of aquatic wisdom to anyone who needs it. You know, the usual stuff, like “you need to quarantine new animal purchases”, …
Happy 100th, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, father of SCUBA diving
Jacques Yves Cousteau is the original narrator of the Sea and he was born 100 years ago today in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Fance. When he was just in his 30s, Cousteau came up with the idea of using pressurized air for humans…
Eheim Powerscraper is a motorized algae cleaning blade
The Eheim Powerscraper is a motorized algae scraper that borrows from the technology of powered toothbrushes and razorblades. In a rather stunning marketing move Eheim has elected to not share any photos nor details on their upcoming Eheim Powerscraper. This…
Illumina LED light from Vertex is charting it’s own path, outside the US for now
The Illumina LED light from Vertex is a new high performance reef light which is really taking a dynamic course to growing aquarium corals. Hearkening back to the days of the PFO Solaris and it’s infinite suite of modes and…
Reef Foundation A, B, C and Complete are ratio-based supplements from Red Sea
Reef Foundation is a new line of supplements from Red Sea which aim to replenish the minerals of reef aquarium water with a strong emphasis on maintaining specific ratios. Sure we’re all aware that our reef aquarium chemistry needs to…
LeDio Mystery Purple and NanoCustoms PAR 38 LED spotlights tango in these videos of azoox corals
The Ledio Mystery Purple LED spotlight from Volx Japan is one which we compared to many LED spotlights including the PAR 38 lamp from NanoCustoms which will be familiar to new and old Reef Builders readers alike. The Mystery purple…
Sparisoma rocha is a new parrotfish species from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean
Sturisoma rocha is a new species of Brazilian parrotfish which was recently described from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. The six specimens of S. rocha were collected from Trindade Island off of Southeastern coast of Brazil and they differ from other…
C-Series Fluval power filter from Hagen now with lots of stages
The Fluval C series power filter has so many filtration stages that it’ll make you think twice about your sump or wet-dry. Ok, we wouldn’t go that far with the C series power filter but even though Hagen has usually…
More Hanna Checkers in development: magnesium, salinity, and ammonia
Hanna Instruments isn’t content with just adding alkalinity, calcium, and nitrate to their line of Hanna Checkers. The president of the company let slip that they are indeed working on magnesium, salinity, ammonia along with calcium and alkalinity that we…
Reef Builders gets mobile friendly
While Reef Builders has been growing over the past years, something that has been becoming more and more of a common trend. Everyone has smartphones. You know the ones that I’m talking about, iPhone, Blackberries, all of you have them.…
