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Hands-on with the Mame Nano Overflow, the Lily Pipe of reef aquariums

The Mame Nano Overflow is one of the most luscious piece of hardware ever built or conceived for the marine aquarium. That may sound hyperbolic but we make no claim to hide…

NanoSun 15 watt multichip LED spotlight from Econlux

The NanoSun fromEconlux is a multichip LED spotlight that brings a 15 watt photon engine to the court of reefing. If you’ll recall, Econlux, is the company which made a big showing at InterZoo 2010 with it’s SinglePower 100 watt…

BP Oil Spill: Cold-Water Reefs Threatened

While the Deepwater Horizon oil geyser spill continues to stir political debate and attention, a lesser known problem is also being documented. It turns out that oil is actually leaking into the water. Who knew? This information may hit mainstream media sometime…

Juvenile oarfish offered up for sale in Japan

The oarfish, Trachipterus trachypterus, is a mysterious creature of the open ocean which has been the root of many a fisherman’s tale over the span of human history. There are four described species of oarfish with one species growing up…

Hands on with the Quazar LED striplight from Giesemann

Giesemann’s Quazar LED is possibly one of the most attractive aquarium LED striplights tha we have yet seen. We had a chance to manhandle one of their Giesemann’s first couple prototype Quazar LED lights at InterZoo several weeks back and…

Some “Light Conversation”- Lightfair 2010 and the LED Revolution

It’s no secret that the crew here at Reef Builders are huge fans of LED lighting. Seems like not a day goes by when we’re not breaking something new on this evolving technology. It’s a fact- LED technology is not…

Amazing underwater freefall base jumping

Just for your weekend enjoyment, we wanted to share this amazing video of world champion freediver Guillaume Nery performing an underwater “base jump” at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world located in the Bahamas. Not only…

So you want to know what is in Rowa Crystal?

If you’ve been wondering what ROWA Crystal could be made from since we posted about it a few weeks ago, then you’re not alone. At the time we supposed that ROWA Crystal was probably along the lines of Lanthanum Chloride,…

AngeLixir from Brightwell Aquatics the perfect food additive for spongivores

AngeLixir is a new amino acid food soak from Brightwell Marine which is specially formulated for marine angelfish and buterflyfish. Being able to provide quality food for fish that normally feed on sponges can be a tough task but Brightwell…

Elos Elite XP LED

Do you own an Elos Elite? Are you tired of having that “smaller” LED e-lite ? Don’t worry Elos has the new Elite XP LED lighting unit to offer you. The XP Elite offers 12 white and 6 blue LEDs…