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.

ORA released Purple Undata, 1″ frags now available to the masses

ORA has released a new coral, called the ORA Purple Undata that is a encrusting or plating montipora. ORA continues: ” The polyps  of this coral are small, purple in color and lightly scattered between the  coenosteum ridges. The Purple…

Metis XM LED PAR values leak out

The Metis XM LED is one of Pacific Sun’s newest high performance LED reef aquarium lighting fixtures. Thankfully the PAR readings for this light have finally leaked out on the interwebs and we have the above image to share with…

Eheim’s Aquastyle nano aquariums finally land in the US

Eheim’s Aquastyle nano aquariums are going to hit the US market finally. Eheim has upgraded these nano aquariums with modern design including rimless tanks with LED lighting. The Aquastyle will be available in 3 sizes including a 4 gallon, 6…

New Abyzz 420 Eco pump has simple control display

Abyzz pumps offer quiet running, unbelievable performance and an extremely low running cost. The new 420 Eco Abyzz has an improved display  versus the older A400 model. These pumps come with a titanium impeller, programmable menu-controlled driver and a sinusoidal,…

Reef Octopus releases Bio Sphere solid carbon biopellets

Reef Octopus, purveyor of low cost aquarium goods and equipment has released their Bio-Sphere product. Bio Spheres are a pure solid carbon source to help reduce nitrates and phosphates in a marine aquarium much how you have seen other products…

Hawaii HB580 aquarium ban is thrown out, adds marine conservatories instead

The Hawaii HB580 Legislation that we shared earlier this year has been amended. The original bill that was introduced in January 2011 was to prohibit the collecting and selling of aquatic life for aquariums in Hawaii. Thankfully, due to lack…

Aquatronica lets loose 8.7 update to aquarium controllers

Aquatronica has just announced the availability of 8.7 for their line of premium aquarium controllers. The new 8.7 update contains several bug fixes in the PC software realm of things. The new update also includes numerous bug fixes for the…

Tunze releases more information about Nanostream 6095

The Tunze Nanostream 6095 which was officially announced at Reef Stock and Tunze has more information about wattage use. The Tunze 6095 will be controllable, meaning you will be able to modify how much flow you would like to dish…

Aqua Design Amano gets new logo

Aqua Design Amano the company responsible for new and noteworthy products to freshwater plant heads has changed their logo. The new logo design is a result from counterfeit goods being produced from their old logo. As ADA states “ADA’s Nature…

ProFilux Touch gets launch date, $349 pre order price [Updated]

The Profilux Touch, a unit that should help control your aquarium has finally gotten a launch date. We first spied the Touch unit from Profilux back at Macna last year and it has over gone a few changes from the…