Cherry picking corals from an ocean based coral farm is very much like picking ripe fruit from a tree. Otherwise known as mariculture, growing corals in the ocean offers the same advantages and disadvantages as growing of food crops. On one…
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Bashsea Mano sump just for you nano reefers
Bashsea is big in bold in many ways but the nano scene was a missing piece for some of its products, but that changed when the company recently unveiled the Bashsea Mano nano sump. Although they are billing it as the “man’s…
Artfully Acrylic releases line of AIO aquariums
Artfully Acrylic has recently released a series of all-in-one aquariums that have a few unique attributes including a larger reach chamber to allow for more equipment options, deep dimensions for aquascaping potential and clear, removable mesh lids to keep your…
Seachem Reef Reactor media in Md and Lg grain sizes
Seachem Reef Reactor is a new natural form of high purity calcium reactor media. For a company that’s been in business for going on 35 years, we can’t imagine how it too Seachem so long to come out with such…
Vertex I-Supra C+ featured in video trailer
The Vertex I-Supra C+ is a radical new sump design from Vertex Aquaristik which takes the ‘kitchen sink’ approach to total reef aquarium filtration. While reef aquarium sumps have received intensive modernizing redesigns in recent years, the Supra C+ is the most…
Hydor USA files complaint against Jebao with U.S. International Trade Commission
Sadly Chinese knockoffs of aquarium products perpetuates our industry. Sure it brings in some more affordable products, but the downside is the loss of revenue against patented products for the true innovators in the industry. Hydor USA is now drawing…
Reef Builders Indonesia Travelogue – Bali Aquarium Serangan Coral Farm
Staring out to sea only a few short kilometers from the hustle and bustle of Denpasar Indonesia, it would be easy to miss what is going on beneath the surface. Above, you would notice surfers paddling between crashing waves and fishermen wading out…
Red Sea Reefer XL just announced with wider dimension
The Red Sea Reefer XL are two new sizes of tanks to the Reefer line of nearly all in one tanks that were announced earlier this year. The Red Sea Reefer XL will come in two new sizes, a 425 liter/112…
Exciting orange elephant ear mushroom sighted in Tulamben
Elephant ear mushroom anemones, Rhodactis mussoides, are curious members of the broad and diverse group of corallimorphs. Ricordea, Discosoma and other Rhodactis shrooms are much more popular for home aquariums but a newly discovered orange morph of this Rhodactis species might finally…
Royal Exclusiv Dreambox now with Closed Loop built-in
Reef aquarium sumps are getting nicer every year and Royal Exclusiv hasn’t been resting on their laurels. Royal Exclusiv kicked off the high performance sump arms race with their Dreambox and now you can get it with a ‘Closed Loop’…