The Nero 5 is an all new water pump from Aqua Illumination, the company best known as one of the pioneers of aquarium LED lights such as the AI Sol, AI Prime and Hydra. The Nero 5 is Aqua Illumination’s…
Featured
Featured posts
Reef-A-Palooza Is Coming To Chicago!
Industry Breaking News: Reef-A-Palooza America’s Largest Saltwater Aquarium Show has recently announced they are expanding to the mid-west part of the country. Reefapalooza is part of a small group of reef shows that have become an annual – cultural phenomenon. With…
Resplendent Fireball Angelfish Hybrid from St. Helena Island
The ‘Resplendent Fireball’ angelfish is a naturally occurring hybrid of the semi-precious brazilian flameback angelfish (aka fireball), Centropyge aurantonotus, and the ‘unobtainium’ resplendent angelfish C. resplendens. So how does a fish from Brazil come to hybridize with a fish that lives…
The World Wide Corals 900 Gallon Show Tank 3+ years later
There is a saying that time does not pass, it continues. We originally did an article that we published way back in November 2014 called “A masterpiece is born: time lapse aquascaping of World Wide Corals’ new show tank” Now…
Video Preview of Wild Corals’ Adaptation to Aquarium Life
In general the reef aquarium hobby has a gross misconception about where our corals come from. Sure we might know which country it came from, but our image of what a coral reef looks like, and the habitat where corals…
The Gorgeous Taiwanese Reef of Jimmy Huang [Video]
Traveling the world to visit aquariums stores and reef tanks is very exciting and I never know what I will get to see. This inspiring reef tank by Jimmy Huang on the outskirts of Taipei, Taiwan is the first I…
Weird and Wonderful Corals of Weda Indonesia
Whenever i’m diving on a coral reef, I often find myself turning to the scuba diver next to me in excitement, “can you believe we just found this epic blastomussa colony…” only to realize they could really care less about a…
The Glorious ‘Lifted Reef’ of Evan Luo [Video]
We visit a lot of reef aquariums every year and every now and then, we come across hidden treasures like Evan Luo’s Lifted Reef aquascape. This 300 gallon aquarium is installed in-wall as a room divider meaning that there’s amazing corals to…
LED & T5 Face-Off in the White Corals Display Tank
The display reef tank of White Corals is a spectacular reef aquarium display no matter how you look at it, and it will be the focus of a future Reef Builders video. But in the interim we wanted to share…
The Clearest Macro Time Lapse Video of Growing Acropora
Time lapse and macro videos are one of the best tools we have to shine a light on coral ‘behavior’. Since corals don’t move like other animals, and their reactions to the environment are a very different time scale from…