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TLAC Sancta LED fixtures are industrial looking with replacable LED “slides”

TLAC is a new company to the LED game, and although their website might contain some weird English phrases, their Sancta LED fixtures are actually quite interesting. The main body of the Sancta is CNC ‘d out of aluminum, which…

Royal Exclusiv adds media filters to their Dreambox line up

Royal Exclusiv is releasing their own set of media reactors, and like all their other lines will be a classy as they are functional. Appropriately named the Dreambox media filters, the reactors are part of Royal Exclusiv Dreambox line which…

Lionel reef from France has some serious character

Lionel’s Reef from France, might not have a comprehensible aquascape or deliberate artistic statement but it does have thing going for it, massive character.  There is just something very charming about this 430 gallon slice of of reef. The placement…

New Aquamedic Turboflotor 5000 is like a (revamped) blast from the past

Every new skimmer nowadays seems to feature some unique design whether DC pumps, integrated volutes, pipeless designs or a combination of the three, but new Aquamedic Turboflotor? Not so much. Instead Aquamedic decided to go with some good ol’ fashioned…

True Facts About The Angler Fish from a hilarious video

We’ve all watched short documentaries about marine life on YouTube, and in many cases we can’t get enough (Blenny Hunters anyone?) but this video was done in a different light. Hilariously funny with dumb facts that makes  you realize just…

Five things reef aquarists can expect in 2013

2012 was a good year for the aquarium industry, and companies kept the team of writers at Reef Builders more than busy by releasing post worthy new products. LED lighting is inching towards being the mainstream lighting technology, we saw…

Warner Marine ecoBAK NWF “biopellet sheets” are a new way to think about carbon dosing

Warner Marine ecoBAK NWF (non-woven fiber) is an extremely interesting concept, take a widely popular carbon dosing solution such as biopellets and reshape it into “biopellet sheets”. Those sheets now perform the same functions as biopellets but can be used…

NextReef stick-on internal refugiums can also serve as fish condtioning vessels

The new NextReef stick on refugiums serve several functions, mainly as in tank refugiums, but we can imagine that they might very well serve as fish acclimation chambers. In the case that you don’t want to run your QT/ hospital…

Onyx LED light is Rapid LED’s first venture outside of DIY

Rapid LED was one of the first companies to see the value in DIY LED kits, and is still a great and popular DIY LED source for many. Now however they’ve decided to venture a bit outside of the DIY…

Featured Reef: Reuven Tal’s reef from Israel

Great reefs can be found all over the world, and even though Israel might not be known for it’s reefing scene, the stunning reef of Reuven Tal is located in Israel. It is seldom an aquascape makes us stop in…