The Sunrise Anthias is a super fresh, recently discovered species of Pseudanthias Anthias from New Caledonia. With their exclusive partnership to Short Supply Chain collectors of reef fish from New Caledonia, Quality Marine is the first marine life dealer to ever…
Read what reefs were like in free pdf booklet, Reef Reminiscences
We all know that coral reefs are in trouble, but one particularly worrying thing with reef ecologists is the idea of shifting baselines. This very important idea basically means that coral reef researchers who began studying reefs in the last,…
Marine Life of Fiji and Tonga is the ultimate video for reef life identification
Marine Life of Fiji and Tonga is a new DVD by Josh Jensen and Liz Harlin which is loaded with video footage of reef life. The DVD set is comprised of 77 chapters and three and a half hours of…
The appearance of an LPS coral at depth with natural and artificial lighting
For all the proponents of what they think is “natural lighting” for corals, here’s a little bit of fodder to help them cool their jets. What is natural lighting on a reef? In shallow water it’s pretty dang close to…
You don’t even have to dive to see stupendous reef scenery
A lot of people think they have to be divers in order to see the beauty of the ocean realm. But in fact, much of the reef life in the tropics is concentrated in the shallows, especially when we’re talking…
There’s nothing cuter than 3rd graders unboxing a huge skimmer
Look at those cute third graders, all of them potential future reefers getting to play with a new toy serious piece of reef equipment. Apparently, Mr Rutherford is awesome, because his third grade class of higher learning has their very own…
ReefLink review: Ecotech Marine’s wireless hub just works, well
The ReefLink by Ecotech Marine might be their smoothest working product to date. As part of the first wave of Beta testers, we have had the privilege of using a ReefLink since the end of August and we are incredibly…
Reef Builders’ YouTube channel is up to 200+ videos!
Here at Reef Builders we’ve been doing our fish, coral and reef aquarium blogging thing for a long time now. Every where we go around the world, our aim is to document the coolest aquarium things that you’ve never seen, and…
Omega Sea Micro Pellets are made with nothing but the best
Omega Sea is now making Micro Pellets to feed our fish after more than a decade of making flake foods from really fresh ingredients, and more recently frozen foods. The Micro Pellets come in a Marine, a Veggie and a…
Francis the Fish Geek named Hagen Aquatic Development Manager
Francis Yupangco, better known as Francis the Fish Geek on the hit aquarium TV show Fish Tank Kings has joined Hagen. In lieu of building big tanks for rich folks with Living Color, as Aquatic Development Manager for Hagen and…