The Focus 1 by Focustronic is a new light from a completely new lighting company with one radical feature we’ve never before seen in aquarium lighting. In addition to being a fully fledged, high-powered, multicolor, multichannel LED light, the Focus…
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Mitratus Butterflyfish In The Shape of a Burgess, Or The Other Way Around?
But man, what a brilliant yellow specimen it is! Burgess butterflyfish usually have a mostly black back, black crown and black eyestripe but the Aqua Gift Burgess Butterflyfish is throwing out extra yellow all over the place. Not only is the…
The LPS Coral Paradise Aquarium of Michael Rice
Michael Rice is a local Colorado reef aquarist with a picture perfect reef tank of LPS corals. His 30 gallon aquarium is absolutely packed with gorgeous, healthy and very colorful fleshy corals, with an arrangement of chalice corals on the…
So Many Azoox Stony Corals in a Single Shallow Reef Cave
Our aquarium life is all but dominated by photosynthetic corals and to be fair, the brightly lit aquariums they require is part of the appeal. But there’s a whole wide world of cool and unusual corals growing literally in the shadows,…
Giesemann is Betting Big on the VerVve LED Light
Giesemann is legendary in the marine aquarium world for building sinfully gorgeous metal halide and T5 fixtures with luxury car paint jobs. The veteran German aquarium lighting company has been gradually easing into the LED lighting market with increasingly sophisticated…
Upgrade Your VorTech – ReefBuilders Facebook Giveaway
For the month of October EcoTech Marine is celebrating “the world’s favorite magnetically coupled powerhead” by giving away VorTech Upgrades! Don’t delay contest ends October 28th. ReefBuilders Upgrade Your VorTech – Facebook Giveaway To enter: like the ReefBuilders Facebook page,…
Slim Overflows Are Taking Over From Reef Ready Aquariums
Overflow boxes are one of the most iconic, aquarium-hobby specific devices which has been helping turbo-charge reef aquariums for decades. However, after years of stagnation we’re starting to see a big shift in the way overflow boxes are made, and…
Huge Visual Update of 6-Meter Pieter’s 20 Foot Reef Tank
Pieter van Suijekom’s 20 foot reef tank has been in operation for the better part of a decade and in that time it has become something of a legend. This 6 meter long reef tank with a concave front glass panel…
NanoBox Wide Quad LED is a New Handmade Light for Wider Aquariums
The NanoBox Wide Quad is the newest hand made LED aquarium light fixture from NanoBox Reef. As the name implies, the Wide Quad has four of NanoBox Reef’s unique LED clusters arrange in a rectangular configuration, for better coverage of…