The Hydor E-SK DC Controllable Skimmer is the official name for the interesting looking fractionator we spied at Reefapalooza a few weeks ago. The launch of Hydor’s first radically new protein skimmer design in quite some time is still a…
Purple Tang Captive Bred by Bali Aquarich
The Purple tang has been captive bred and it comes to fruition from a familiar player in the world of reef fish aquaculture, Bali Aquarich. It’s only been a couple years since the breakthroughs in breeding the closely related yellow…
Some Fish are MUCH Smarter Than Birds & Mammals
We’ve been working with and keeping fish pretty much all of our lives, and many of you have long, personal histories with diverse groups of fish. As aquarists we are familiar with the different ways our fish can demonstrate a…
Chromis tingting, a New Species of Damselfish from Japan
Chromis tingting is a brand new species of damselfish described from Japan by Lemon TYK and Anthony Gill. Hailing from Japan’s famous Sagami Bay, the new Ting Ting damselfish has been confounded with similarly colored Chromis like C. mirationis with which…
Unboxing the Motherlode of Rare and Exotic Fish [video]
For years we’ve wrote about, photographed and filmed some of the rarest tropical reef fish in the world, often by visiting the right marinelife dealers, reefs or private tanks. One of the biggest reasons for the Reef Builders Studio is…
Palau Once Again Has the Largest Giant Clam Farm in the World
Giant clams are some of the most enigmatic creatures both on the reef, and in the aquarium. Over the years we’ve written countless stories about the multitude of species of Tridacna and Hippopus from all over the world, culminating with a visit to…
The Importance of Cleaning our Protein Skimmers
See if this scenario sounds familiar – you get a new protein skimmer and it works great, body is full of foam and it pulls lots of gunk. Over time you find yourself raising the water level in the body,…
The ‘Keyhole Sailfin’ has a HOLE Right Through its Body!
We’ve covered some truly bizarre and unique marine fish of all kinds over the years, but to this day we can’t say we’ve ever even heard of anything quite like this. Marine fish with deformed bodies, especially tailless specimens have…
Icecap Releases the first NEW KalkStirrer in Ages!
The IceCap kalkwasser reactor or kalk stirrer is one of the first new models of this kind of device we’ve seen in a really long time. As you know we are big believers in the dosing of kalk in our…
SolviReef has a Unique line of Man Made Live Rock
‘Real’ live rock is really falling out of favor in the reef aquarium hobby and dry or artificial rock is really starting to take over aquarium reefscapes. Solvireef is a new company from South Africa that debuted at Reefapalooza Orlando…