The Vertex Libra doser has been teased for over a year, first shown off at MACNA last fall and now Vertex is ready to anoint their fancy doser with a release date and pricing. Vertex Aquaristik will begin shipping the Libra…
Sea Dwelling Creatures brings rare Bodianus paraleucosticticus to America
The five stripe hogfish, Bodianus paraleucosticticus, is an amazing and rare hogfish which very rarely graces American soil. Recently, Cairns Marine out of Australia has been making more regular excursions to the Coral Sea to get exotic reef fish such as the five-striped…
New video asks Ecotech, Thrive, Nyos, Caribsea and Ocean Nutrition why they love InterZoo 2012
InterZoo 2012 may be starting to become a memory for those of us who attended, but the effect of attending this highly influential pet business and trade show continues to grow. InterZoo is a place where vendors and manufacturers can…
Echinophylia chalice corals are getting crazy colors for no reason
What the heck is up with the crazy looking chalice corals we’ve been seeing around the last couple of months? For several years we’ve had a beautiful assortment of colors and patterns in chalice corals of the genus Echinophyllia, Oxypora,…
Coral Smoothie Oyster Delight from Algagen
Coral Smoothie Oyster Delight is a new coral food product by AlgaGen made from fresh florida oysters. Like DT’s Oyster Eggs and Reef Nutrition’s Oyster Feast before it, Coral Smoothie Oyster Delight makes use of the ovarian and reproductive tissue…
AI Vega Blue and Vega Color final specs outed by Aqua Illumination
The AI Vega Blue and Vega Color LED reef aquarium lights are finally here with a full feature set to help the AI Vega follow in the footsteps of the wildly-popular AI Sol LED. Aqua Illumination’s newest creation will come…
Tiny Bandit Angelfish video by Fishcube is absolutely irresistible
It’s been too long since we’ve professed our love for the bandit angelfish, Apolemichthys arcuatus, and to make up for it we’ve got this great video of a tiny lil guy. Mr. Fishcube received this tee-nine-tsy baby bandit from Hawaii…
Lightning Maroon Clownfish spawns again, you can do it girl!
Papua New Guinea’s Lightning Maroon Clownfish has spawned again, and this time it’s a much larger and more robust looking clutch. After more than two years of conditioning by Matt Pedersen the Lightning Maroon Clownfish spawned for the first time…
Mini Maxi cozies up to a blue squamosa clam in light field
http://pictures.lytro.com/ReefBuilders/pictures/227113 The Blue Squamosa Clams from last week are starting to get around and man are these beauties great. Some people also love Mini Maxi pseudo-carpet anemones and we just happened to capture one cozying up to a stunning small-blue-spotted…
Estherea reef video shows that the Dutch are some of the best reefers in the world
At Reef Builders we got mad love for the Dutch reefers and we’ve featured Tanne Hoffe, Leo Den Breejen, Pieter van Suijlekom (6 meter Pieter) and the Estherea Hotel, the latter of which has just been given a proper video…