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S-shaped seahorses give them greater reach
We’ve never really given much thought as to why seahorses swim upright or why they have S-shaped bodies but that hasn’t stopped curious researchers from teasing out some possible answers. Unlike the…
Bubble King Double Cone Super Marine 250 featured in video
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA4HkjN2wVw[/youtube] The double cone Super Marine line of Bubble King skimmers from Royal Exclusiv are the newes top end skimmers from the German skimmer and pump manufacturer. If a well designed cone protein skimmer can reduce turbulence and…
Juvenile conspicuous angelfish still looks perfect after a year in captivity
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THiYHZy8Ny4[/youtube] This juvenile conspicuous angelfish, Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus, made our weekend when we spotted it in Chris Campbell’s 500 gallon fish only display aquarium. We first visited this conspic angelfish over a year ago when he was being quarantined…
Sylvania confirms a difference between KZ Fiji Purple and ATI Purple T5 lamps
In the aquarium industry, as with all others, many products are made to specification for companies by much larger companies. Take for instance the T5 fluorescent lamps in the aquarium hobby, many of which are made by the German lighting…
Mini Algae Wafers from Hikari take it down a notch
Hikari Mini Algae Wafers are an ideal way to feed your smaller-sized herbivore fish without having to break up the larger version of the food. Hikari Algae Wafers have been a staple of herbivorous fishkeepers on both the marine and…
New Coral Shop dosing pumps are a little different from the norm
Coral Shop dosing pumps are a little bit puzzling at first but we don’t think it is necessarily a bad thing. When we first received the pictures of these new dosing pump from Coral Shop we were quite pleasantly surprised to…
True White Light unveiled by Cree, warmer LED to go head to head with incandescents
We here at Reef Builders love our LED lights but let’s face it, the color rendition of white and blue LED reef lights leaves a lot to be desired in the warmer side of the color spectrum. In an effort…
H2Ocean Pro+ Reef Paste is an interesting method to feed your tank
H2Ocean Pro+ Reef Paste is a rather interesting and truly unique method of feeding your fish being released by the folks at D-D Aquarium Solutions. What makes the H2Ocean Pro+ Reef Paste really unique is not in the ingredients or…
Vietnam may soon begin exporting hard corals
Details are scant but we’ve just got word that Vietnam may soon begin exporting stony corals. So far we’ve only seen some soft corals, giant clams and fish species exported from Vietnam. The most notable Vietnamese marine life exports have…
Sicce Syncra HF hands on video shows the features of this massive pump
It was hard to tell the size of the Sicce Syncra HF water pumps from yesterday’s post, but the new official hands-on video from Sicce USA leaves no doubt that these pumps are monsters. Although the external shape of the…
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…
