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.

ATI Powercone Skimmers to be carried by Reef Geek

The ATI Powercone skimmer with  ATI gridwheel design is coming to the United States. Reef Geek, which carried the first ATI Sunpower lighting units and other ATI products has announced they will be carrying the unit. We’ve also confirmed final…

The Dark Hobby by Robert Wintner

Robert Wintner is an author and founder of Snorkel Bob’s shops throughout Hawaii. This guy has made a big business selling snorkel gear to tourists and locals. He has written several books in which have been poorly received with a…

AquaDriver releases two new Skim Clean sizes

Aqua Driver has just released two new sizes in their automatic line of Skim Clean. The smallest size is 50-90 mm which means that it was designed for very small protein skimmers and might be a good fit for a…

Reef capable LED from Marineland lighting fixtures released

Marineland just released information on their new Reef capable LED lighting fixtures to the masses. We first reported the Reef Capable light back in March and it looks like Marineland is finally ready to get this LED light to production.…

Giesemann Aquaristic thinks its first to market with T5/LED light

Recently, A Giesemann distributor in Australia took out an ad in a large national print publication. The ad (pictured above) states that the Helios light is the first hybrid fixture on the market. Or at least that is what Giesemann…

More teasing by ATI Power cone skimmers

We’ve got fresh imagery of the ATI Power Cone line of cone skimmers from ATI. For starters, in case you don’t read us religiously there will be three models: Power Cone 160, 200 and 250. The model pictured is the…

GHL ProFilux Touch getting closer to release date

GHL has gotten more official with their release of the ProFilux Touch module. Besides that small ProFilux Touch image that we showed you last week, we have this larger image along with a few more details. This is a touch…

New ATB Luguna 900 custom pump to replace mini airstar

ATB has been hard at work on a replacement skimmer pump. This new pump will replace the current mini airstar that comes with the Deluxe 8.5 models. The pump, if you haven’t noticed already is a Luguna 900 with special…

Red Sea Max 500 won’t start production until 2011

Do you remember the Max S500 from Red Sea? We were at Interzoo covering the event and Red Sea displayed it at their booth. Apparently that model was a pre-production model, meaning that the design is still undergoing changes. They…

Skimz iBox nano aquariums

Skimz, the new aquarium company based out of Singapore has released their Skimz iBOX nano aquariums. They will be available in three colors black, red, or white. And featuring a low voltage, high intensity 21 LED light with a no…