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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.

Fluval Sea EVO 12 Nano Tank will rock $199

Fluval Sea’s new EVO 12—a 12 gallon nano tank is set to be released early next year if all goes as planned. The new tank includes LED lighting that is said to be “ideal for SPS and LPS corals” and…

New Life Shield Medicated Foods: Ick Shield & Hex Shield

New Life Spectrum, a purveyor of fish foods has two new products Ick Shield and Hex Shield. Each of these foods actually has something hidden inside: fish medicine. The first Ick Shield does what you might expect and combats aquarium…

Aqua Defender: Antibacterial foam and wipes that are fish and reef safe

Aqua Defender is said to eliminate 99.9% of bacteria that causes infections from marine and freshwater aquariums and ponds. Two years in the making and available in convenient wipes, and antibacterial foam, the stuff will protect from bacteria for up…

DOS – new Dosing and Fluid Metering System from Neptune Systems

  DOS, a new automatic water top off device from Neptune Systems is seen in the flesh for the first time seeks to win acceptance within the great aquatics community. Top off systems became popular in early 2007 for the…

Prime LED light from Aqua Illumination

To date we haven’t seen much from the Aqua Illumination and Ecotech Merger but that all changes now. Their first major product announcement is the Aqua Illumination Prime LED tank mounted light. The Prime is just a little bigger than…

myGHL cloud based aquarium monitoring software coming in 2014

GHL, which has been making reef tank monitoring equipment for several years, has announced the general availability of myGHL. myGHL is a cloud based GHL service that connects with other GHL services and allows you to see current states, initiate…

New Patent US8646934 aquarium light strip revealed

We get several goods delivered to our respective Reef Builders’ offices located around the world. One such package caught our eye more than others. In the package from Ecoxotic was a new patent that recently got approved as officially official.…

Sources: Ecotech Horticulture in the works

Ecotech Marine is gearing up for its first major hardware release of 2014. The Hanover Township based company has been laying the groundwork to expand into the horticulture industry with announcements coming for a new lighting and integration system, according…

Sergeants Pet Care Products and Fritz Aquatics announce distro and royalty deal

Fritz Aquatics just scored a royalty agreement with Sergeants Pet Care Products. Sergeants if you weren’t familiar are extremely popular for their Mardel and aquarium product lines including: CopperSafe, Maracyn, Maracyn 2, MarOxy, Maracide, Maracyn+, ProtoShield, ParaShield, BacterShield, QuickCure, Crystal…

New Pulse LED light Fixture from Aquatic Life

Aquatic Life took the wraps of their new Pulse LED Fixture for saltwater tanks and threw their hat in the ring for on board controller dimmable LED light fixtures. The new Pulse product has multiple channels of control and comes…