The weekend of September 22-23rd we had the honor and privilege of attending and speaking at the Southwest Marine open day in Bristol, UK. We’d visited this shop once before back in May right before trailblazng over to Germany for…
Paracheilinus bellae, bell’s flasher wrasse at House of Fins
Bell’s flasher wrasse, Paracheilinus bellae, is one of the most elusive of the ornamental labridae. With the lyretail of P. angulatus, the dorsal filaments of P. filamentosus and more blue linework than P. octotaenia, Bell’s Flasher wrasse is at the…
First hands on feeding tests of Mysis-Feast from Reef Nutrition
Mysis Feast from Reef Nutrition is one of the most significant new food product offerings from the company that brought us convenient feeding of Arctic copepods, concentrated phytoplankton and oyster “parts”. What is particularly exciting about Mysis Feast is that…
Ecoxotic’s Symphony of LEDs
[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81OjobFOZ0o[/youtube] Our homey John Ciotti put this masterpiece LED video together. Would it have been better with a Black Star soundtrack? Yeah we thought so too.
G2 Maxspect LED light giveaway from Fins Reef for one lucky young reefer
Today on Reef Builders we’re putting one very exciting giveaway where our mouth is: Following the MACNA conference a few weeks back we wrote an editorial which addressed our concern about where all the young reefers have gone. In an…
Hydor Slim Skim Prototype falls into the right hands
The Hydor Slim Skim internal protein skimmer is a highly anticipated reef aquarium filter product which we can’t wait to see become available. The Slim Skim was first showed off in the U.S. at the MAX show back in April…
Classic: Blue Reef Photography is a rare fish lover’s wet dream
The following post is a classic which we originally posted way back in April 2009. It features fish which are still so rare that this post is definitely worth another turn. Ballina, semicinctus and conspicillatus angelfish, Amphichaetodon butterfly, latezonatus clownfish…
New Era Aquaculture cold-extruded food now available in America from Living Color
New Era Aquaculture is a manufacturer of high quality fish foods which has been rapidly gaining market share in the UK, Europe and abroad for the past five years. More recently New Era signed an agreement with Living Color Enterprises…
New Era Grazing Diet coming soon for more natural feeding of reef cows
New Era Grazing Diet is a new concept in feeding the reef fish which normally graze a little bit of greens all throughout the day. In the aquarium, the cows of the sea like Surgeonfish, tangs, parrotfish, angelfish and many…
True Lumen razor thin LED strips coming soon from Current USA
True Lumen LED strips are a new product from Current USA which mysteriously appeared on our doorstep in a box destined for the UK. Without warning we were treated to the new True Lumen LED lunar lights and the 10…