Where LED spotlights dominated the frontier of aquarium lighting in 2009-2010, recently the LED striplight has taken over as the fastest growing segment of the lighting market. If you needed any evidence of this you need only turn to BuildMyLED…
Plectranthias flammeus is a new species from the South Pacific, French Polynesia
The South Pacific Ocean is a hotbed of new species right now with Plectranthias flammeus just the latest visually striking reef fish to be thoroughly described. Discovered living in the waters of the Marquesas Islands around French Polynesia, unlike many other…
Aquarama 2013 in Singapore, the largest aquarium event of the year
Aquarama 2013, the largest aquarium event of the year will take place the end of this month in Singapore. From May 30th to June 2nd, the Asian aquarium hobby, community and industry will converge on the Marina Bay Sands Expo…
Smart Reef aquarium controller system coming in the Fall from Italy
You know that the aquarium is growing and doing well when complicated product lines like aquarium controllers are still being developed and engineered. Case in point is a new outfit in Italy called Smart Reefs which just put itself out…
Oculus Aquatics shutting down, here’s your chance to try someone new
Oculus Aquatics, once a fine dealer of killer corals, sent out an email this morning announce their imminent closure effective today. Oculus had a good run in their heyday and brought in a lot of neat livestock in its four…
Bodianus sp. Banana Hogfish is a totally enviable beauty from the South Pacific
Bodianus hogfish are totally hot right now with B. paraleucosticticus occsionally showing up, peppermint hogfish are now being collected in two flavors: an Indian Ocean Bodianus opercularis and Pacific Ocean B. neopercularis forms. Meanwhile in Japan Blue Harbor has been…
Radiant LED L4a series 10 by Heliospectra aims to be research-grade horticulture light
The Radiant LED L4a series 10 fixture by HelioSpectra of Sweden is a new high tech LED light aimed at high level research. Just about really, really nice fancy feature you can think of has been packed into the clusters…
Revisiting Lemon Tea Yi Kai’s best marine aquarium stories
Tea Yi Kai aka LemonLemon is one of the most prolific aquarium writers the web has ever seen, and we are fortunate that he decide to hang his hat within the ‘pages’ of Reef Builders. Being from Singapore and having…
Endless Goni – a tumbleweed Goniopora breaks the rules of attachment
A coral by and large is a colony of polyp animals that is attached to the reef – it sits there, grows onto the reef, sometimes it breaks off but it’s supposed to re-attach or at least stabilize itself. Not…
Kalk King aims to be an affordable and foolproof kalkwasser doser
The Kalk King is not just a new product but it could also be eligible for a new product category, brought to you by E-Fins, makers of the Algae Mower Vac that we also didn’t know we needed. Simply put…