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.

Salinity Probe Kit for Lighthouse Controller

Another new product for your Lighthouse Controller is the salinty probe kit. This kit will allow you to monitor your salinity levels and even set up an alarm with the screamer that we mentioned earlier.  We aren’t sure which probe…

The Screamer from lighthouse controller does what you think

MCU research, the company that brings you the lighthouse controller that we first spied at Macna in Atlanta is bringing new add on’s to the table. Up first is the “screamer” it does what you think, it will sense water…

Bubble King Deluxe skimmers with microprocessor controlled Red Dragon II Pumps coming

Royal Exclusiv has been working on another version of their very popular Bubble King line of protein skimmers. These models might replace the older models with the deluxe name, much like a car manufacturer has a new model every year.…

Coco Carbon from Grotech comes from Coconut Shells

Grotech outs its new CoCo carbon, although this name sounds like a delicious hot chocolate drink of some kind Coco actually stands for something else. Coconut. Grotech is bragging that Coco carbon will outperform traditional activiated carbon by as much…

Tetra Marine Sea salt has been flirting with UK, not US

The United Kingdom has had access to Tetra’s new brand of sea salt for a few months now and here in the US we haven’t seen any blimp of it on the radar. The salt which is very affordable targets…

ATI Sunpower T5 gets all pretty for the cameras

The ATI sunpower, one of the most highly anticipated lighting units in 2009 has finally arrived here in the United States. The unit which comes in multiple flavors has been caught getting all done up for the cameras. We are…

Sapphire Aquatics outs Solana/Cardiff Nano Skimmer

Less than a year ago, there weren’t to many options for those of us that had a nano aquarium and wanted a better skimmer. Generally speaking, the stock skimmers included in nano aquariums (if they even include a skimmer) aren’t…

ATB 2009 External Cone skimmer in production

ATB has been working on an external cone skimmer for some time now and we can finally bring you first imagery of it. The skimmer uses a flowstar pump that we have covered in times past, however this new line…

Solaris LED lighting vanishing from stores shelves, online retailers

This isn’t much of a surprise, a mere two days later after we reported about the LED lighting aquarium patent issue going on in the industry several online retailers have pulled the Solaris LED from their websites. Additionally, local fish…

Alita pressure air pumps, for people who are serious about air

At some point, Alita industries, the company that brings you high end air pumps decided to get really serious about air. We don’t know when exactly that was but they definitely have the goods to prove it. These pumps are…