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New Cree XB-D LED Set to Lower Product Costs
The Cree XB-D LED just announced today is being released into the wild to start bringing high quality and high output LED fixtures down to a price range that will start to…
Riusuke Fukahori paints amazing three-dimensional fish paintings
If you think that the above picture is one of actual fish you’d be wrong, rather than water the container is filled with resin and rather than being filled with actual fish these fish are painted. Riusuke Fukahori, a Japanese artist, paints these…
Vivid Aquariums using 800 gallon display for a large scale comparison of LED and metal halides
We happened to be visiting Vivid Aquariums yesterday and noticed that their overhauled 800 gallon display reef aquarium is sporting a curious dichotomy of old school and new school lighting. With the 2011 LED showdown now over and tons of…
Ecotech Marine’s Radion XR30w wins the 2011 Reef Builders LED showdown
The 2011 LED Showdown was a lot of work and a lot of fun but at the end of the day only one LED light could be left standing. The Ecotech Radion XR30 defeated the Maxspect Mazarra in the final…
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North Dakota and Western Minnesota gear up for Red River Frag Fest
We love it when reefers, vendors and manufacturers get together under one roof and the Red River Valley Reefers (RRVR) are doing their part hosting the Red River Frag Swap on Saturday, January 12. The free event has all the…
1,500-gallon reef aquarium a beautiful specimen after four years
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2itCSx1HdM[/youtube] We featured this 1,500-gallon aquarium nearly two years ago on a post featuring Borbonius anthias (Odontanthias borbonius) shared by Aquatic Art, Inc. and this new video shows how nicely this tank has matured over the last four years. The corals…
Sparisoma choati is a new species of Atlantic parrotfish from West Africa
Parrotfish are pretty large reef fish so it is a little surprising to see the description of an entirely new species. Sparisoma choati hails from the tropical eastern Atlantic ocean off the coast of West Africa and it was distinguished from similar…
A closer look at the extremely elusive Cirrhilabrus blatteus
Cirrhilabrus blatteus, more aptly named the purpled-boned fairy wrasse, is a member of the genus that is so extremely seldom seen that these handful of pictures of the fish in this post are probably some of the best out there.…
LED showdown final pits Maxspect Mazarra against Ecotech Radion
The 2011 LED showdown is in its final leg with the Maxspect Mazarra defeating the Kessil A150W and the Ecotech Radion taking out Nano Box. So which one will prevail as our reader’s choice LED aquarium lighting product released in…
Video: How to Set Up the Red Sea Complete Reef Care Program
When Red Sea changed its popular dosing system from seven parts to a controlled ratio…
A whopping 62 species reported as new from the Coral Sea Marine Park
Reef Builders Alumni and master ichthyologist, Yi Kai, has teamed up with a star studded…
BYOGuides Announces New Workshops
Russel Kelly has created an iconic set of Be Your Own (BYO) Guides which serve…
Tunze Launches English YouTube Channel
Known for its bulletproof pumps and German engineering, Tunze has also been big on YouTube…
