We love to play the fish ID game at Reef Builders, and this week we got to play it with the dwarf angelfish from the genus Centropyge pictured here. Our first guess was that it is a hybrid, as there…
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How to Care for Your Reef Tank while On Vacation
There are many terms that we reefers have come to fear: RTN, Montipora eating nudibranchs, wife seeing the credit card bill, and Fedex losing the box. Unfortunately, many of us have come to fear something that we should look forward…
Ocean Sentinels Sculptures Celebrates Eight Heroes of The Great Barrier Reef
Award-winning sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor has created a series of 8 sculptures based predominantly around Australians who work in the field of marine science and marine conservation. Named Ocean Sentinels, the underwater artworks are located on the MOUA site within…
Captive-bred Emperor Angelfish are Now Available
The Biota Group has announced that they are now selling captive-bred Emperor angels, Pomacanthus imperator. Bred by Mr. Wen-Ping Su of Bali Aquarich in Indonesia, the man who bought us fish such as the Yurple Tang has also unlocked the…
Forced Fusion of the Dallas Acropora
Experimenting and playing god with corals is something that will always grab my attention. So when I noticed Ben Duncan, the owner of Exotic Aquaculture, a boutique reef store In Melbourne, Australia doing some grafting with iconic staghorn Acropora I…
It’s a boy! Windsor announces the birth of Jake’s son Reef Adams
The Reef Builders team is beyond excited to bring the amazing news that Jake Adams’ wife Windsor Adams has given birth to a healthy baby boy. “The greatest gift Jake could have given me was born on his due date…
Goblin Shark Range Extension turns out to be a Rubber Toy
The discovery of a baby Goblin shark on a beach in Greece has left one scientific journal with egg on its face after it published it in a peer-reviewed paper. The Goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, is a rare species of…
Aquarium Favorites – Lipstick Tangs and Orangespine Unicornfish
List your top ten favorite tangs and the Lipstick tang will probably feature high on that list. Also known as the Orangespine unicornfish, or simply the Naso tang, Naso lituratus is a reef aquarium favorite known for its yellow face…
We just can’t get enough of the TSA Fruity Splice Acropora
We’ve known about this spliced acro for a while now, but after Remy went to see it in person we just can’t stop thinking about it. We reached out to Top Shelf’s Kevin Burda for more info on his discovery. …
Top 10 Grafted Corals at Top Shelf Aquatics
You can’t mention the best coral vendors in the world without mentioning Top Shelf Aquatics. A major destination for reefers and reefing tourists, Top Shelf is a Mecca for everything coral, and Reef Builders’ YouTube Channel and Reef Therapy host…