This hurricane season has been especially active in the Southeast. Sadly, just as several communities begin their recovery from Hurricane Helene, another major storm is already looming off the coast of Florida. I reached out to Austin Lee, a reef…
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How to Protect Your Aquarium in Natural and Manmade Disasters
Wow, these past few days have certainly seen more than their fair share of disasters in Atlanta. We had Hurricane Helene rip through, flooding many homes, knocking down trees and powerlines, and shutting down the city. And if that wasn’t…
Reef Builders Celebrates its 20th Anniversary!
Reef Builders, the World’s Biggest Reef Aquarium Blog, is celebrating 20 years since its conception. Founded in 2004, Reef Builders’ original mantra was to “obsessively cover the saltwater aquarium industry,” and 14,830 articles, (and twenty years later,) it’s still doing…
Biota adds Yellow Herald Angelfish and Shortfin Pipefish to its Captive Breeding Successes
Every day is a good day when we hear of saltwater fish being bred in captivity, and Biota has announced that it has added not one but two new species to its growing portfolio of captive-bred fish. First is the…
G2 XXL is Red Sea’s Biggest Max Nano Ever
Red Sea has just launched a new All-In-One reef-ready aquarium model called the Max Nano G2 XXL. The first thing to note is that at 35.5”/90cm long, and 53 gallons/200 liters capacity, it’s NOT a Nano tank, but it brings…
New Fish Species Discovered: “The Grumpy Dwarf Goby” (Sueviota aethon)
Only a week has passed since researchers released exciting news announcing the discovery of a new fish species determined to belong to the Gobiidae family. The small fish, measuring 9 - 17 millimeters in length, was identified in the Red…
OceanSeaWave Brings Motion to the Ocean
OceanSeaWave wavemakers see a return to a tried and tested wave-making technology, but with several twists that bring it up to speed with the modern age. Made by British company Ocean Sea Products, and designed and manufactured in Wales, UK,…
Gold and Green Scoly Shows Us How Good Homophyllia australis Can Be
We’re no strangers to exceptional quality, high-end Scolies here at Reef Builders, but this yellow and green example is so bright, unusual, and captivating that we can’t help staring at it. Pictures were sent to us by Kevin Lu at…
Xodis becomes ATI Distributor for the UK
When we heard that ATI and Nyos had merged, it wasn’t so much the consumer implications as the trade that interested us. As separate companies, ATI and Nyos had separate distributors in some countries, and now that they are one,…
Pest Nudibranch Tritoniopsis elegans Loves to Eat Soft Corals
My friend Tyler (inland_reef on Instagram) messaged me last week that he had found a strange white nudi hanging out on his Heliopora Blue Ridge Coral. After consulting Sean Ono, he determined it was Tritoniopsis elegans. This nudibranch species was…