Featured here are two of the aquarium world’s rarest species of marine angelfishes; the peppermint angelfish, Paracentropyge boylei and the tiger angelfish, Apolemichtys kingi. Both of these two demi-gods of reef life have been thoroughly featured on Reef Builders throughout the years but this…
MaxSpect Glaive focuses on superb LED color mixing
Alongside the MaxSpect Ethereal LED, the Glaive is another hotly anticipated new LED light fixture from the prolific manufacturer. Where the Ethereal LED is a single square fixture meant to compliment reef tanks like the Mazarra, the Glaive is a…
Tunze NanoStream 6020 and controllable 6040 introduce novel flow deflector
The Tunze Turbelle NanoStream 6020 and controllable 6040 are an interesting new twist on what a reef aquarium propeller pump can be. Instead of being directable with an articulating mount like a contemporary stream water pump, the NanoStream 6020 and…
Apex Fusion comes out of Beta just in time for the European debut of the Apex controller
With the Apex Controller quickly becoming the default computer of reef aquariums in the U.S., the timing couldn’t be any better for the full release of the cloud-based Apex Fusion software system. The full release of Apex Fusion takes it out…
Triton Reef Elementz and Triton Lab water testing are a revolution in reefing chemistry
Whenever a company says their ‘Product X’ is the “best in the world”, we usually will discount their claim and move on to something less outlandish. But in the case of Triton Reef which doesn’t explicitly make that claim, having spent…
Sicce XStream Pumps coming in four sizes plus a controllable XStream-E
The Sicce Xstream is a new generation of propeller aquarium water pumps from one of our favorite pump manufacturers. The XStream Pump builds on the foundation of the Voyager pumps with top quality materials, silent operation, compact size, and sound absorbing…
MaxSpect Ethereal LED is built to play nice with smartphones
The MaxSpect Ethereal LED is a crazy-awesome and interesting new LED light that will be debuting this week at InterZoo. With a clip-on form factor and an impressively sleek and stealthy design, you might have guessed that it will carry…
An illustrated visit to Tropical Marine Centre headquarters
Tropical Marine Centre is a force of the aquarium hobby in Europe so while touring the UK on our way to Germany for InterZoo, we had to make the trek out to their world-famous facilities. We traveled to Chorleywood on the outskirts…
Riptide Gyre Generator brings Maxspect into the water pump market
The Riptide water pump is a wild new concept of a water mover from Maxspect, a company better known for their innovative LED lights which is now breaking new ground on what they are dubbing a “Gyre Generator”. The Riptide…
Liopropoma santi is yet another new species of this popular genus of reef fish
Liopropoma santi joins a recent spat of new species to be described from this genus, with Liopropoma olneyi being described just last week. Liopropoma santi is also the result of the deep diving work of the Curasub in Curacao and like…