Birdnest corals are fairly common in the ocean and in our aquariums, however we really culture a handful of common species. These include the sharp branch birdnest, Seriatopora hystrix, and the blunt tip birdnest, S. caliendrum and the usually green…
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Kessil A360X Review: Taking a Raw Look at The Hardware
Kessil is without question the undisputed leader in LED spotlighting for home aquariums both fresh and salt, with a variety of models from the minute A80 to the Jumbo A2000. No doubt one of the most popular models for Kessil…
Anatomy of a Mature & Successful Five Year Old Reef Tank
Keeping a reef aquarium going to a successful point six months or even one year down the road is a real achievement which comes with plenty of unexpected challenges. So imagine the long winding road that fellow reef builder Marc…
Aqamai KPM Pump Review: Wireless Control with Tons of Value
The Aqamai KPM is the newest and larger model of Hydor’s wirelessly controllable brand of water pumps. We already love the teeny tiny feature set of the Aqamai KPS which is the smallest controllable propeller pump for the aquarium hobby,…
Top 5 Super Exotic Thin Branched Acroporas
We are living in a golden age of reef aquariums right now and despite the closures of coral exports from Indonesia and Fiji, we still have a crazy number of coral strains already in the hobby. However, for all the…
Our First Batch of World Wide Corals Frags for the Reef Builders Studio
It’s been a long journey getting the Reef Builders Studio to the point where we can start receiving frags. But now that at least the first coral flat is really doing well, we felt comfortable receiving an exciting shipment of…
Flower Polyp Montipora Appears with Intense GFP Infection
The Flower Polyp Montipora Cap is one of the older and more unique strains of Montipora in the reef aquarium hobby, and also one of our favorites. This light off-green Monti strain has a nice thick purple rim, but what really…
Nero 5 Pump Review: a Whole New Class of Propeller Pumps
The Nero 5 pump from Aqua Illumination is the first new product category from the lighting company ever and they swung for the fences with ambition. With its internal motor surrounded by a broad spinning propeller, the Nero 5 is the…
Top 5 Saltwater Fish We Wish Were Domesticated
Once upon a time, successful captive breeding of marine fish was pretty much limited to clownfish and new successes were heralded as huge triumphs. Nowadays there’s announcements of new species culturing breakthroughs fairly regularly and these are usually fish that…
The Massive 2,000 Gallon Reef Tank on Dubai’s Palm Island
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has made a name for itself across the globe for going big, having ambition, and this also extends to the reef aquarium owners of this country. While visiting BPK Dubai for their annual regional…