$20,000 Rare Fish, Probiotic Concoction and Zoa Brackets continue! 

It’s been another eventful week! Salem stayed at the house for a long weekend and we toured some home aquariums and several local fish stores. Needless to say, we’ve got some new content to explore. I’m most excited about all the…

Video: Is the New Probiotic Concoction Coral Food Safe to Use?

In the latest episode of the Reef Builders Reef Therapy Podcast, Remy and Salem speak with Allan Vo of Critical Reef Theory about his “concoction” – a bacterial polyculture utilized as a coral food constructed from common dry goods in…

Grzegorz Grebosz’s Acropora are Probiotic Perfection

We admit to following and admiring this aquarium for a while, and although it’s existed in several guises since 2015, the bright, tabling acros and pristine, immaculately clean tank always manage to keep it looking like new. We caught up…

Scientists Find Potential Probiotic Treatment for SCTLD

Researchers at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have discovered a probiotic treatment for stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). We’ve reported on the disease many times since its discovery in 2014 in Florida, including most recently that it…

Hybrid Pro Salt is an evaporative, synthetic, amino acid, probiotic blend

Polish reef care brand Aquaforest has expanded its salt portfolio to include two new recipes. Sea Salt, Reef Salt, and Probiotic Salt are now joined by Reef Salt +, a synthetic salt with elevated parameters, and the all-singing, all-dancing Hybrid…

Probiotix by New Life Spectrum is a Serious Probiotic Fish Food

Probiotic is one of the biggest buzzwords in nutrition both for people and aquariums, but the entire movement has a dirty secret. It’s cheap and easy to dust everything from foods to salt and even water with probiotic ‘spores’ –…

Seachem update: Adding probiotics to NutriDiet, potassium loaded Vibrant Sea and coral adhesives

Besides adding phytoplankton to the aquavitro line, Seachem has been touting a few new things at Global Pet Expo including updates to NutriDiet flake foods, a strong push for the new Vibrant Sea salt and a couple of new adhesives…

Saki-Hikari Marine Is The First Fish Food With Proven Probiotic Effect

Saki-Hikari is a new pellet food for marine fish from Japanese company Hikari. Although Saki-Hikari is being promoted with some familiar marketing buzzwords, it is probably the only one that has been tested and proven with years of research.  Hikari makes…

Aquaforest shows off a field of probiotic Acros

Aquaforest is a new company from Poland that makes an interesting line of reef aquarium additives. Aquaforest products seem to mirror many of the additives we’ve seen from Zeovit and Fauna Marin, but they are really emphasizing the probiotic functions of…

Bacter Clean M is Continuum Aquatics’ take on probiotic nutrient processing

Continuum newest additive release, Bacter Clean M, is an additive containing ‘microbial’ cultures and enzymes for processing nutrients in aquarium water. Specifically designed for marine aquariums, Bacter Clean M is designed to target and clean surfaces of live rock, coral decorations…