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.

Downtime/Server Upgrade

You might experience delays in reaching Reef Builders or see a different status message. We will be upgrading servers. Reef Builders has grown tremendously in the past 6 months and to keep up with the growth an upgrade was necessary.…

Deltec TC SC skimmer captured on video

While the world has been patiently awaiting (Europe should have their units already) the new TC/SC skimmer lines from Deltec to be released for public consumption, we are left with a teaser video that shows the unit up and working.…

GS2, the new cone skimmer from Grey Sea’s Aquatics

GSA (Grey Sea’s Aquatics) launched their new cone skimmer recently and we thought you might like to know more about this new guy. The cone skimmer is aptly named GS2 and features some nifty features including: the cone design, slotted…

NeoMarine salt from Brightwell Aquatics seen in the wild

While Seachem is busy readying their new Salinity salt, Brightwell Aquatics seems to be finished with their final recipe of their NeoMarine salt. A local fish store in Florida, named Studio Aquatics has received the “first batch” of the new…

Reef Central is (maybe) down offline Indefinitely, database destroyed UPDATE: It’s not going anywhere

We reported earlier yesterday that Reef Central was down and today it looks like our worst fears have been confirmed. Reef Central is down and from the looks of things, it isn’t coming back. Apparently the database backup files that…

Seachem’s Salinity salt from Aqua Vitro gets its photo taken

The uber secret Salinity salt that Seachem has been working on for some time now is starting to get more widespread. We have previous workups of the salt bucket of choice for illustration purposes only but this is the first…

Alpha 170 Cone skimmers have arrived at retailers

We received word that the Alpha 170 cone skimmers known as Kone have begun arriving to retailers and have begun shipping. One of the first retailers to get their mits on these new guys is Premium Aquatics. In case you’ve…

Reef Central has been completely offline for over 6 hours and counting

Reef Central has been completely offline for quite some time today. It seems the site was fine around 7am CST today but a little after that time the site has been completely offline. So far we are going on the…

Eco Lamps LED vs Aqua Illumination

It looks like Eco Lamps might be a little eager to sell their new K2 LED lamp. A tipster sent us a copy of Aqua Illumination’s brochure which lists their selling features for their LED lamp which looks strikingly similar…

New ProfiLuxControl II Version 4.0.7.0 is released

Firmware updates are always a welcome sight here at Reef Builders and GHL has got around to updating their firmware for their ProfiLuxControl II with a new version known as 4.0.7.0. This version fixes bugs and gives some new features.…