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.

Researchers find new deep water coral

Several thousand feet below the oceans surface researchers have discovered a new deep water coral and sponge beds. The new corals and sponges were collected for DNA analysis 3,000 to 6,000 feet in the ocean.  They were found in the …

TOS Updated…again.

Our TOS (Terms of Service) has been updated again to reflect the new features of this website.

Current USA’s disaster: Fission Nano Skimmer

Current is known for making good products. With smash hits like the Nova Extreme, satellite lighting, and soon to be Solana aquarium, we are used to getting quality products from this beast. However, what needs to be yanked off the…

Reef Builders Reviews Are coming

Several members have requested that Reef Builders add a review system to review Local fish stores along with equipment and misc products. We currently are working on getting a system together for our members to be able to review just…

Live rock bait and switch on eBay

Apparently since a few of us shop on eBay for saltwater supplies, including live rock, some sellers have been using the old bait and switch technique to scam a few of our members. Generally we don’t encourage users to buy…

Marine Depot to Carry Elos Products

Elos USA apprently wants to sell more in the US market. They have announced that Marine Depot will be carrying “select” elos products. Hopefully this means they will carry the products that us Reefers want, mainly all of them. We…

Reef Builders Referrals, a new contest

Today starts a new contest. Everyone loves RB right? And most of you have been telling your friends and family about RB, that is good and all, but when you do that, tell them your username here on RB. So…

Blog Maintenance

Just a note that we are performing blog maintenance…parts of the blog may time out, or get formatted incorrectly. Update: Completed.

A new way to sell on Reef Builders

I am starting to get a lot of requests for a new type of selling forum, or somewhere were we could list livestock, equipment and various other things that us reefers need to get rid of and would like to…

Aqua Illumnations Led System claims to outshine Solaris PFO

A quick browse onto Aqua Illumnations LED light system and we find this question: “How does your fixture compare PFO’s Solaris 250W (G) and the ‘400W’ (H/I4) LED systems? We are using the highest output, single-die white LED for the…