The Cleaning Set from Tunze is a much needed maintenance kit for making sure your pumps and other critical equipment are kept in peak working order. Product manufacturers can only make their devices so durable and in the harsh, corrosive…
ReefStock 2010 pictures part 3: a fisheye view
Unless you were one of the few dozen captive bred fish brought to ReefStock, chances are you didn’t get to see the show from a fisheye lens. The tight crowds made it difficult to capture how densely packed the floor…
Transparency shrimp on HD Video
Another video from Coralmorphlogic has been released as they guys there say: “Featured in the the video is a unidentified shrimp that lives commensally on Ricordea sp. corallimorph polyps. Unlike the other commensal anemone/corallimorph shrimp (Periclimenes pedersoni, P. yucatanicus) that…
ReefStock 2010 pictures part 2: so many LEDs under one roof
With over 30 aquarium LED products showed off by more than 15 companies at this year’s ReefStock, were going to go ahead a call it: The future is now and LED lighting has truly arrived to the aquarium world. Spotlights,…
Ecoxotic turned a solar collector into an ‘Automatic Moonlight’
Just this past holiday we received a handmade solar collector as a gift from a friend. Imagine our surprise when Ecoxotic came to ReefStock showing off the exact same core device outfitted with blue LEDs for moonlighting a marine or…
ReefStock 2010 pictures part 1: Setting up
With 60-70 participants and about 400 attendees the third ReefStock was the best show yet. The crowd came early and it stayed late for the ReefScape competition, the talks and the raffle. While we were doing all we could to…
CORAL Magazine March/April digital print edition released
We recently received our print edition of CORAL magazine but the digital edition has just been released. The articles center around Smart Reefs, which was done up by Reef Builders own Jake Adams. You’ll learn about energy-saving products and tactics…
AquaMedic new rounded/oval aquariums to hit Interzoo
AquaMedic in Germany has a bevy of new products, some we’ve covered already. One such product is actually quite large and odds are it won’t come to the US market. However our friends in the UK and the rest of…
Reef Angel programmable controller for that DIY fix in you
The Reef Angel, a new programmable controller, is coming to market and looks to be a great way to get a fully customizable controller at a lower cost relying more on DIY programming and some assembly rather than the turnkey…
MR16 LED spotlights from NanoCustoms revealed at ReefStock 2010
NanoCustoms made a very strong showing at this year’s ReefStock with many new products, one of the most notable being their MR16 LED spotlight. The MR16 from NanoCustoms is a Mini-Me version of the industry-leading PAR 38 LED spotlight from…
