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.

Inside a fish hospital

“Patit Paban Halder gives an injection to a sick goldfish at a fish hospital in Chandannagore, India. Halder runs the unique 32-aquarium facility at his home, and with the help of his wife and child treats suffering ornamental fishes.” Pretty…

ATB Rock Cone ZEOvit reactor might not be coming after all

That ATB rock cone ZEOvit reactor we spotted some time ago might not make it into production. ATB is stating that the “the movement of the rocks with a pump was not very good”. And with any ZEOvit system, the…

Is this Instant Ocean’s new Gel Based food?

An anonymous tipster sent us a shot of what they claim to be is Instant Ocean’s new gel based food. The food looks to be Krill (Euphausia pacifica) in some sort of gel. Our guess is that this Gel that…

ECO Lamp LED KR92 gets snapped by camera

That hot KR92 LED lamp we showed you back in June has appeared over in the UK. Yes, that’s right The United Kingdom of all places. A fine distributor has nicely displayed the new KR 92 unit out for us…

A Handbook to the Marine Aquarium 1856

A interesting feature within Google is their book search. You can search from a huge library of books and you can view full copies of out of print books for free. Recently Google announced that you could download over a…

Box of Crap for $20 could turn up something worth far more

In grade school I always wondered if I would be the kid that got the grab bag of goodies the teacher would pass out to a student. It usually went to the “best” student for the day (most were the…

iReef to work with Reef Keeper Elite RKM-NET module

If you have an iPhone (and really who doesn’t these days) you can pick up an APP that will run your old style reef keeper 2 from Digital Aquatics. Yes we know, its the old Reef Keeper 2, but all…

Hitch hikers Guide to worms

Everything you wanted to know about hitch hiker worms. Seriously. Bonus: How many black dots can you see?

GHL Active Splitter for ProFilux systems

GHL has released  a device that will allow you to run more than two LED sticks or spots off of one dual channel L port i.e L1L2. If you want to “connect more than 2 LED-lamps ProfiLux-Simu or Simu-L to…

Warner Marine’s Reef Pure Ultimate Snow

Warner Marine has released a new product called Ultimate Snow. It is a blend of multiple carbonate based micro-fine particles which is advertised to increase the efficiency of skimming, clears water and delivers organic nutrients when used. “When used with…