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Hydro Wizard medium now available for pre-order from Panta Rhei, shipping in December

If you’ve got a big league reef tank and you’ve been curious about the “smaller” Hydro Wizard we hope you’ve been saving up your coins cause you’re going to need a lot…

Astreopora montiporina is a new species from West Papua that plates like a Montipora

The coral above is not a Montipora but a new species called Astreopora montiporina which is named after the common plating coral. Like A. cenderawasih and A. acroporina the new Astreopora montiporina was also discovered in Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua Indonesia and it…

New glass dramatically reduces glare, reefing applications abound

Glare on glass is never fun and if Nippon Electric Glass has anything to do with things, light glare off of glass will be just about non-existent with the company’s new “invisible glass.” According to reports across the web that…

Almost full black Rock Beauty Angelfish is a unique stunner

We’ve posted so many aberrantly colored fishes here on ReefBuilders that it has become part of the norm to expect something weird and off-colored to pop up every now and then. Yet it never gets old and each fish lucky…

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Astreopora acroporina branches with a real axial corallite tip just like Acropora

The branching Astreopora from Cenderawasih Bay is not alone in its preference of growth form but it’s nothing compared to Astreopora acroporina. If you are a self-professed Acro junkie like ourselves you’ll flip when you see the big honkin’ axial…

First look at the Radion software includes easy graphical programming and dynamic spectral output

What is attractive to many potential buyers of the Radion LED light from Ecotech Marine is not only the quantity and quality of the light it produces, but also in its built in smarts in the form of wireless communication…

Astreopora cenderawasih is a new species of branching Acroporid from West Papua

We’ve seen some Astreopora species exhibit light tubular growth forms in aquariums but it’s nothing compared to Astreopora cenderawasih, a new species described from Cenderawasih Bay in West Papua, Indonesia. Astreopora cenderawasih described by Wallace et. al. exhibits an explicit…

This slingjaw wrasse tattoo is totally rad

We don’t know what’s awesom-er, how nice this tattoo of a sling-jaw wrasse is or that there is someone out there who is rad enough to get this awesome species permanently adorning the majority of their forearm. Of course what…

Shedd Aquarium hosting Seahorse Symposium this week

Over 20 million seahorses are taken from the wild each year for medicinal or commercial use, coupled with overfishing and damage to their natural habitat — seahorse populations are in trouble. Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium is looking to address these issues…