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.

Tank of the Month May 2008

Congratulations to William1 who won the tank of the month contest for May 2008. Hit the read link for more information about his beautiful tank.

Red Sea’s Red Sea Max 250 to Hit USA early 2009?

We received an unconfirmed report that Red Sea’s uber cool Red Sea max 250 is supposed to hit US shores early 2009. Please remember to take this with a big grain of salt and it most likely is another reef…

ROWAphos used in treatment of olympic pool

The Chinese-German BMBF research project which was started in 2004 has been researching the best way to filter out waste water to fill an olympic pool. Due to water shortages, waste water had to be used to fill the pool…

May 2008 photo contest winner

Congratulations to aquasalt for winning the May 2008 photo contest. Aquasalt has won a free 5 gallon bucket of Instant ocean reef salt! Not a bad picture either.

Kill-a-watt meter strives to keep our reefs energy efficient

What if you knew how many watts that pump really was using? Now you can! Say hola to the Kill-a-watt meter. Your life will never be the same again. What does it do? It is a cumulative Killowatt-Hour Monitor. You…

Stable Reef water parameters make a sucessful reef

In keeping a successful reef, your water needs to match as closely to the ocean. It’s been proven. You can go look at any successful reef tank and look at it. Then you can ask the owner about why it…

Win a 5 gallon bucket of salt mix

We are having another photo contest, so get out your cameras. The subject of this contest is Clownfish. You can read more about the contest and rules here. The winner will receive either a 5 Gallon Bucket of Reef Crystals…

Preis Aquaristik new coral glue

We got an update from Preis, the glue in question is based on 2 components that are to be mixed in equal proportions and it takes 2 minutes only to get hard. As far as the substances are concerned, these…

If only our reef fish were this cool

This fish does it all, playing soccer, and doing misc other “tricks”. Just imagine your friends coming over to a beautiful reef tank with fish. Not only do the reef fish look beautiful “they do tricks” you say as you…

Reefkeeper elite debuted at IMAC in Chicago

The most anticipated reef gadget to hit for 2008 has finally made it, debuted at IMAC in Chiciago and generating so much buzz inside the reef industry it might make Digital Aquatics to shut down pre orders. Take a gander…