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.

Shocker: ORA Spotted Mandarin Gobies selling out

  When ORA dropped the bomb that they would begin selling captive breed Spotted Mandarin Gobies it was a big deal in the industry. These fish which are highly desirable are usually expensive for wild caught specimens and aren’t the…

Remote Display from Digital Aquatics available for pre order

The Remote Display from Digital Aquatics has been put up for pre-order. As you might have caught earlier we covered the RKM-RD1 back in September of last year. The display is easily a second display, much the same as you…

Silent Dream Marine’s new fish foods

Silent Dream Marine has released two new foods that seek to feed your fish. The two blends, either Carnivore (SF R) or Herbivore (SF H) have ingredients your fish will love, including: Shrimp, Mysis, Krill, Plankton, Golden Pearls. Retail pricing…

Full RSS feeds are back

We turned off full RSS feeds for a few weeks. We did this mainly to reduce scrapping from other sites. I just turned them back on this morning. Quite a few of you complained about having the crippled RSS feed…

AquaMaxx starts Importing JNS Skimmers in the US

AquaMaxx, an upstart company brand that entered the marine aquarium industry in mid-2008 with a line of metal halide bulbs has added to their catalog with their new line of Protein Skimmers produced by JNS Skimmers. Marine Depot is the…

More Hanna Checkers in development: magnesium, salinity, and ammonia

Hanna Instruments isn’t content with just adding alkalinity, calcium, and nitrate to their line of Hanna Checkers. The president of the company let slip that they are indeed working on magnesium, salinity, ammonia along with calcium and alkalinity that we…

Reef Builders gets mobile friendly

While Reef Builders has been growing over the past years, something that has been becoming more and more of a common trend. Everyone has smartphones. You know the ones that I’m talking about, iPhone, Blackberries, all of you have them.…

TMC releases AquaBeam 1500 XG Ultima LED from AquaRay

AquaRay announced their AquaBeam 1500 XG Ultima LED aquarium lighting tile. This 1500 XG has 52% higher output than the AquaBeam 1000 and designed for marine aquarium setups. This unit uses un-lensed (120°) XP-G LEDs driven at 700mA for optimal…

Hanna Checker Colorimeters will be available in Alkalinity, Calcium, and Nitrate

Hanna Instruments popular “Hanna Checker” line of colorimeters are set to get expanded into other water parameters. With the President of Hanna Instruments Martino touting  on a reef forum that “Alkalinity, Calcium, and  Nitrate” are in the works with possible…

Elos Elite XP LED

Do you own an Elos Elite? Are you tired of having that “smaller” LED e-lite ? Don’t worry Elos has the new Elite XP LED lighting unit to offer you. The XP Elite offers 12 white and 6 blue LEDs…