Chemical filtration can be an important tool for maintaining water quality in a reef aquarium and these days most reefers use some sort of flow through media reactor for use with GFO, activated carbon or aluminum oxide medias. With so…
Everything We Scored While Touring 15 Shops for #LFSsaturday
We’ve been very vocal advocates of local fish stores in our writing, the Reef Therapy Podcast, and countless aquarium shop tours throughout the years. This past holiday shopping weekend we didn’t just talk about supporting these important retail establishments but…
RVS Fishworld Collected The Most Misbarred Regal Angelfish to Date
Regal angelfish are a unique and singular species in their own genus so they don’t have any close relatives with which to hybridize, but they do offer fanciers their own kind of ‘shiny pokemon‘ to keep a lookout for. With…
LifeRock Flatz Helps Make your Rock Shelves Purple
LifeRock Flatz is a new shape of dry rock from CaribSea which, as its name implies, is a nice flat shaped rock useful in many aquascaping scenarios. With the rise increasing popularity of dry rock for creating reef tank rock…
Green ‘Grafted’ Heronensis is one of the Rarest Corals
The Hero Coral, Turbinaria heronensis, is one of the most interesting of all pagoda cup corals because it can exhibit a range of growth forms. Sometimes hero corals are completely branching like a delicate looking Duncanopsammia, other times it’s nearly smooth and…
There Wouldn’t be a Reef Builders without Champion Lighting & Supply
Last week we learned of the passing of Perry Tishgart, an undisputed pioneer in the aquarium industry and the founder of Champion Lighting & Supply. Perry was a man who can best be described as being rough around the edges…
Branching Heliofungia is the Ultimate Holy Grail of ‘Torch’ Corals
There has never been another coral that has enjoyed such a moment of hype a popularity as the torch corals and vendors and collectors alike are constantly on the lookout for the next hottest strain, the holiest of grails as so…
Cop some Reef Builders Merch with a Rare Discount Code
Our job at Reef Builders is to promote other companies, events, products so we don’t spend too much time beating our own drum, or hustling our audience to buy or merchandise. But hey guess what? We do have a store with a…
Can We At Least Talk About Captive Breeding Defects?
If a farmer grows a certain quantity of produce like fruits or vegetables, they can’t reasonably expect that every single fruit will be of sellable quality. The same principle applies to farmers that cultivate livestock, or pet breeders that raise…
Everything We Plan to Stock Up On at Our Local Fish Stores this #LFSSaturday
No doubt there are a lot of reefers anxiously awaiting all the great deals coming up later this week and as we’ve loudly proclaimed, we’ll be going out of our way to visit as many local fish stores in our…