The Sybon Digital Thermometer is a welcome newcomer to the desolate group of economy electronic thermometers. While browsing for thermometers recently, we just couldn’t bring ourselves to spring for even a few bucks towards the fairly unreliable Coralife model. The…
Bandit Angelfish, video of a perky juvenile
Juvenile Bandit Angelfish, Apolemichthys arcuatus, are very striking fish for their bold black on white stripes patterning. This well adjusted juvenile aquarium specimen is brimming with personality as he swims confidently around in his 10 gallon QT/conditioning aquarium. This is…
FrankenScoly shows that even reefers can be mad scientists
The FrankenScoly is a very striking coral that we stumbled upon while killing time on eBay. This auction was first listed over a week ago but an error in the listing caused it to be canceled. Now the Frankenscoly has…
Koralia Evolution pumps adds a lot of tricks to Hydor’s best selling product
The Koralia Evolution water pumps are the next generation successor to the wildly popular Koralia line of water pumps from Hydor. Oftentimes a product refresh can be a simple as some new packaging and fancy new numbers and letters but…
ZEOvit’s first Dream Tank of the Quarter is full of color but lacking vision
Congratulations to Andrzej Niewiarowski for taking the ZEOvit DTOQ title which will again go to a Pole. This SPS dominated oligotrophic reef tank is 6.5′ long and aside from using the ZEOvit method of nutrient management, the back room is…
Success with the Harlequin Filefish, Oxymonacanthus longirostris
We are pleased to present another inaugural post today on Reef Builders, this one is by Tim Morrissey, a fish breeding aquarist who is attending the Florida Institute of Technology where he studies reef fish ecology and reproduction. Harlequin filefish,…
Time lapse of 198 days of growth by Caribbean staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis
Who said corals grow slowly? Obviously this Caribbean staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis didn’t get the memo! Growing at breakneck speed in an aquarium by Atlantic Reef Aquaculture, this precious Atlantic staghorn coral is chronicled through an amazing time lapse video…
Comparing the NanoCustoms and LeDio LED Spotlights over a real nano reef
If a picture is worth a thousand words then the animation above is a 5000 word thesis on the color and spread of a variety of LED spotlights from NanoCustoms and Volx Japan. Over the weekend Taka and I got…
Professionally quarantined exotic marine fish now available from AquaTouch
A handful of professionally quarantined and conditioned rare and exotic reef fish have just become available in the WYSIWYG section of the AquaTouch website. The page lists some of the harder to get, harder to acclimate and much sought after…
Lifeguard WOW multifunction internal filter/pump is a Jack of all trades, master of none
The Lifeguard WOW filter/pump is a do-it-all aquarium product that looks like it’s design was inspired by an alien sex toy. Seriously though, who would have ever thought to themselves “gee I need a water pump, submersible air pump, filter…