The Io LED photo contest received nearly 1500 votes and the Reef Builders readership has spoken. Congratulations to Mike Kane who submitted this great picture of an unbelievably shaggy pink lemonade Acropora. Mike will receive an Io LED pendant from…
Hands on with the Vertex LumiLux LED striplight with details and pricing
The Vertex LumiLux LED striplight is a solid Cree-packin’ reef light which we first posted back in May when we first them saw at the Vertex booth at InterZoo. Today we remembered that we’re still sitting on a pile of…
Modding the EcoMini 28 with a Nanostream propeller pump
Let’s face it, most all-in-one aquariums are woefully underflowed and almost all Solana and Biocube owners end up getting some kind of propeller pump to increase circulation inside the tank. Although the AIO nanos have been a major product category…
Dobie Pads are the ultimate aquarium cleaning and maintenance tool
We’ve been using Dobie Pads to scrub much more than just the aquarium glass for years yet it’s a wonder how some folks still haven’t heard of these wonder pads. Your average grocery store chain carries 3-packs of Dobie Pads…
Hydor Slim Skim internal skimmer gets all kinds of taken apart
The Slim Skim is an interesting new internal protein skimmer that is constructed with an extremely accessible design. Unlike most protein skimmers on the market which are made from tubes or cones, the Hydor Slim Skim is made from a…
Hydro Wizard from Panta Rhei is a carbon fiber reinforced water jet
The Panta Rhei Hydro Wizard is a new flow device which is more of a stealth water jet than an average propeller water pump. The Hydro Wizard is the first carbon fiber reinforced pump we’ve heard of for the aquarium…
Io LED contest finalists, help us pick the picture of the healthiest coral or fish
It was very tough but we’ve finally arrived at narrowing down the submissions for the Io LED pendant photo contest down to ten finalists. It wasn’t easy as there were a lot of great entries to this challenging photo contest…
Batch of scaly Derasa clams spotted, what does it mean?
The smooth shell giant clam, Tridacna derasa, is readily identified by the smooth shells with a complete lack of scutes (outward projecting scales). Itty bitty Derasa clams are so smooth they look like litte finger nails. Right? Well apparently at…
Genicanthus takeuchi hybrid from Ogasawara could have a little semifasciatus angelfish in it
Genicanthus angelfish hybrids are enough, to discover one which is a mix of G. takeuchi is truly a once in a lifetime find. We’d be happy to just see a full blooded alive in our life time, in the U.S.…
Geo Sulfur Nitrate Reactor coming soon to Premium Aquatics
The Geo Sulphur Nitrate reactor takes Geo’s best Calcium Reactor designs and melds them into one solid device which is fine tuned for growing bacteria on sulfur beads. Geo’s nitrate reactor is driven by a maxiJet 600 with a flowrate…