The march of the DC controllable skimmer pumps is in full swing, with the Reef Octopus DC-X being one of the first to market with the new open volute design. You may recall that towards the end of last year…
Lipogramma robinsi brought up from the depths for just the second time
Lipogramma robinsi is so rare it wasn’t until early last year that we saw our first pictures of a living specimen. Thanks to the work of the deep diving Curasub in Curacao, we’ve been fortunate to have a plethora of…
DaVinci clownfish are a curvy-barred form of the Snowflake clownfish strain
The DaVinci clownfish is a newly announced strain of Amphiprion ocellaris from Sea & Reef Aquaculture. Sometimes Sea & Reef is dropping names for clownfish strains that have been produced for years, even if their operation “refined” them, but the DaVinci clownish is…
ATB Mini Mikro skimmer introduces air stones to bubble plates
The ATB Mini Mikro skimmer is a new in sump design from ATB which is not to be confused with the ATB Nano or the ATB Mikro skimmer lines. However, the ATB Mini Mikro skimmer does incorporate features of both…
Reef Builders Editor’s Choice: best products of 2012
We had a great deal of numerous and diverse marine aquarium products to tell you about last year. Many products are incremental upgrades to existing products lines and just another addition to existing categories. Some other products however, refine and redefine product…
The Maze Angelfish like you’ve never seen it before
The title of this post is a little bit of a misnomer because in all likelihood, you’ve never seen any maze angelfish, let alone any that look like this. Hailing from Taiwan, for some reason the maze angelfish are almost never seen…
Cobalt Neotherm fully lives up to our ideal aquarium heater
If we were to describe our ideal aquarium thermometer, the rundown would sound a lot like the the spec sheet for the Cobalt Aquatics Neotherm heater. We’d start shaping our aquarium heater with its appearance, aiming for a low-profile design that can…
Fireflies inspire LED coating that gives a big boost to light output
Apart from glowing, fireflies and LEDs don’t seem to have that much in common but even if the source of their luminance derives from different physics, there’s still a trick one can learn from the other. Fireflies have been around…
Tunicates growing on zoanthids is probably nothing to worry about
We love a good reef aquarium Critter ID mystery so when Extreme Corals shared around this photo of some odd looking things growing on their zoanthids, our inner Sherlock Holmes was on the case. The colonial nature of the benthic…
Touchscreen Evolution LED revealed in single teaser shot
The EvoLED TS is a new, forthcoming fixture from Evolution LED that incorporates a touchscreen controller. Based on the recently introdced EvoLED Color, the EvoLED TS is basically the same device with integrated touchable controls and display. We expect the EvoLED…