This is a repost of a story we first did back in fall 2008. Marine Depot would like for us to giveaway one copy of this book to remind you that they still sell this book for cheap and it…
MW 700, a new portable lux meter from Milwaukee Instruments
The MW 700 is a new portable lux meter from Milwaukee Instruments which was spotted lying around on a table in Orlando this weekend. ReefBuilders writer Scott Fellman was shmoozing at the Global Pet Expo and he managed to snap…
EcoReef One, second preview
Here is another preview video of EcoReef One, a live rock-less, LED-lit five gallon nano cube that lives off of an average of 20 watts of power consumption and water changes. This is indeed a video, see the harlequin shrimp…
KW Reactor 300 from Two Little Fishies caught in the wild, finally coming to market
The KW reactor 300 from Two Little Fishies is a new kalkwasser reactor that has been promised to us in the 2 lil fishies catalog since MACNA in Jersey but which is only now close to becoming available. The KW…
Two Little Fishies algae magnet scraper cleans the inside of tubing
Looks like Sprung’s Two Little Fishies aquarium product company has come out with a specialized algae magnet that can clean the inside of aquarium tubing. Many aquarists won’t be tripping over themselves to bump this aquarium cleaning accessory to the…
Reef Capable HO LED prototype from Marineland shows some light at the Global Pet Expo
Hold on to your corallites folk because all that promise of mass market LED from marineland’s Double Bright is about to get a little closer to reality as we sneak a peek at the HO LED prototype at Global Pet…
The blue-spot butterflyfish that holds a lot of promise for the future of captive reared aquarium fish
This petite blue spot butterflyfish, Chaetodon plebius, from Sustainable Aquatics may only be 1.25″/3cm long, but this little guy is a window into a very big future of captive reared fish. Sure it’s nice to have captive reared fish like…
Operation Black Gold seizes huge illegal coral shipments
by Shane Graber Chalk another one up to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service! On March 11th, two Taiwanese nationals, Gloria and Ivan Chu, pleaded guilty in a U.S. Virgin Islands federal court to nine counts for conspiring to illegally…
Captive bred mandarin gobies soon commercially available from ORA
Captive bred ORA mandarin gobies, the blue mandarin Synchiropus splendidus and the target ORA mandarin S. picturatus are some of the most exciting new captive raised creatures to be announced by Oceans, Reefs and Aquariums (ORA) since their all white…
Ecoxotic Mystic Cube Aquarium silhouetted
Either Ecoxotic has a new LED light which shines everywhere but the tank or this is a sneaker image of some fancy new aquarium we haven’t seen yet. Just when we were getting comfortable pigeonholing Ecoxotic into being just an…