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The Homewrecker Tenuis In Perfect Coloration Is Jawdropping

The Homewrecker and Walt Disney Acros, both Acropora tenuis, are hands down some of the most sensational looking SPS strains the hobby has seen ever. No doubt that many of the photos of these corals floating around the internet have been manipulated…

Top 10 New Products To Look For At MACNA This Weekend (+VIDEO)

If you’ve been reefing for even a short while, or a long term reader of Reef Builders, then you know that the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA) is this weekend, and it’s a reef blogger’s paradise. This is…

Borbonius Anthias Captive Bred By Biota Palau

Biota Palau is no stranger to being first to captive breed some popular tropical marine fish and the Borbonius anthias is the latest species to be added to their catalog. Their captive bred mandarins have revolutionized the experience of keeping…

Illumagic Makes Killer LED Lights For Nanos, Reef Displays, & Commercial Scale

Illumagic is a Taiwanese company that has been making LED aquarium lights about as long as all the major players in the aquarium hobby. Being separate from mainland China, Europe and North America, Illumagic has really been able to develop…

Focustronic LED Review Video – Hands On With The World’s First Moving Aquarium Light

The Focustronic Focus1 LED has been making the rounds of reef aquarium shows throughout the year. But we had to get our hands on a Focus1 for ourselves to finally see this promising new light over live corals.  What better…

Maxspect Turbine Duo Has Two Outlets With Just One Motor!

The Maxspect Turbine Duo is a radically new pump design that we know reefers will love. Much like the Gyre pump, the Turbine Duo has a centrally mounted motor which powers two water moving assemblies on either side. However unlike…

Maintaining A Super Easy Nano Reef Tank (Video)

The first thing most non-aquarist think when you tell them you have a saltwater aquarium is that it must take so much time, be very expensive, and very hard to maintain. That may have been true way back in the…

Blue Skeleton Majestic Angelfish Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen!

Every now and then a very special reef fish that we’ll never forget pops up on our rare fish radar, and the ‘Blue Skeleton’ Majestic Angelfish is such an example. This sensational specimen of Pomacanthus navarchus made its way to East…

Ricordea yuma Are Still Some Of The Showiest Shrooms In The Hobby

As the reef aquarium hobby has become gripped by the current craze for mushroom anemones or corallimorphs, we’ve seen all different types of these polyps become exalted and highly sought after. Better known as ‘Shrooms’, the Discosoma and Rhodactis have been appearing…

There’s A Whole Ocean Of Corals Unknown In The Reefing Hobby

The reef aquarium hobby has come such a long way in the last 15 years. During that time we’ve mastered the husbandry and propagation of hundreds of coral species, nearly as many reef fish, and we know more about the…