Ryan Gripp
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Ryan Gripp founded Reef Builders in 2006. He writes about technology, industry and other associated news relating to saltwater fish tanks. He went to Depaul University and has been keeping reef tanks for over 15 years.

Instant Frozen fish food: Liquid Nitrogen machine

What isn’t to like about liquid nitrogen? Besides looking cool, this machine was orginally designed to make instant ice cream in small batches for the rich. This amazing device could have some uses in the aquarium indsustry although not wide…

Warner Marine K2 cone skimmer shipping soon

For all of you anxiously awaiting the impending arrival of Warner Marine’s cone skimmer the K2, we got word that this cone skimmer should be shipping very soon. Like we mentioned earlier, the skimmer takes up a footprint of  10.5…

ATB Deluxe Cone Skimmer 2009 gets priced for Europeans

The ATB 2009 model that we reported earlier on has now been given the “Deluxe” name. The protein skimmer from ATB is cone based and will have deluxe features that other high end companies use such as Royal Exclusiv. The…

Tunze Skimmer Kit 15 is launched in UK, Europe

Tunze released an all in one kit that will handle most reef aquariums. The Tunze skimmer kit 15 includes sump, protein skimmer and Tunze’s famous osomolator auto top off device. The entire sump system is 21 liters including a lid…

Current XL 60 aquarium gets priced?

The Current XL 60 all in one aquarium might hit at $2,000 if the rumors are true. Anyone care to verify? Update: Current has informed us that retail would be $1895-$2495 for the Solana XL 60.

ATB Slim line cone skimmer makes an appearance

ATB has made a slim line cone protein skimmer for those of us that have smaller sump areas to work with. This new design is currently in Austria doing testing and it has some unique features that we haven’t seen…

Solarmax Apollo G12 pendant lighting units

The Apollo series from AquaMax is a great pendant for those of you who would like a spot light system setup. The lighting unit which comes in silver uses a facet reflector and is advertised as reflecting close to all…

Vertex Cone Skimmer by Royal Exclusiv gets final specs

While the reef keeping world stood still for a while we broke the news of a cone skimmer made by Royal Exclusiv we were missing quite a lot of much needed details on this skimmer. Thankfully Royal Exclusiv has informed…

Korallen Zucht Frag Soft Socket kit

While we originally spied this frag system back at Interzoo, we finally are starting to see adoption in the US and UK markets. This frag system is winning praise from anyone using it, as fragging soft corals is some what…

Solana XL 60 aquarium more details leak out

With Current’s new Solana XL 60 which is the Solana’s big brother we found out a lot more of this new aquarium. With the initial pictures we got our hands on suggested the the aquarium was a frame-tank, the aquarium…