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Reed Mariculture deepens it’s love affair with Aquathrive premium pellet food

Back in April at the MAX show we reported on a little fling that Reed Mariculture was entertaining with a certain nondescript looking pellet food with protein that is primarily derived from…

Underdriving or Overdriving LEDs: coralSky’s Jeff Littlejohn explains LED drive current

With LEDs only now just beginning to emerge as an important technology for reef aquarium lighting, the hobby’s collective understanding about how LEDs work is still very limited. There appears to be a lot of confusion about the difference between…

Avatar’s marine life inspired Pandora will seem familiar to reef lovers

Avatar is arguably one of the most important movies in a decade and the absolutely magical world of Pandora is strongly inspired by some of the iconic marine creatures of our own planet. Spoiler Warning! I may discuss some nuances…

ATB’s new Mikro “Nano” cone skimmer seen

ATB’s newest cone skimmer called the Mikro “Nano” is set to be released soon. This new skimmer will run an eheim 1250 pump and the Mikro will be great for tanks up to 600 liters (158 gallons). This nano cone…

Fauna Marin blue line skimmer seen, available in January

Fauna Marin has new skimmers in the works, possibly named after their Blue Line of skimmers. These blue line skimmers are said to be 100% serviceable, all parts are removable for cleaning which Fauna Marin is touting as one of…

The Big Hobby Developments of 2009- Scott Fellman’s take

As the holiday season is in full swing and the end of 2009 is in sight, Jake thought that it might be cool for those of us who write for Reef Builders to give you our thoughts on what we…

Next Gen Aqua Illuminations light now shipping, includes totally revamped lenses for the Cree XP-G LED

The first images of the next generation Aqua Illumination modular LED light have just started to show that this beast is now out in the wild. We call this light fixture a beast because it includes the latest and greatest…

Reef Brite Actinic LED striplights blueing up some deep reef tanks

The image above show an 8ft long, 3ft deep reef tank being illuminated solely by 48 watts of pure actinic LED goodness courtesy of the new Reef Brite striplights which have begun shipping. Several nights ago I had the pleasure…

Quick-Precise Adjustment valve from JNS Aquaria is a quantum leap in skimmer water level control

The Quick-Precise Adjustment valve featured on the new JNS Shark Cone skimmer is a novel development in the fine tuning of water level inside a protein skimmer. Although we just posted about the JNS Shark Cone protein skimmer, the very…

Shark Cone Skimmers from JNS Aquaria…DA DUM…DA DUM…

JNS Aquaria, a company you’ve probably never heard of but produces a lot of products for brands across the world has a new line of cone skimmers named after sharks. Thats right. Sharks. To date there are two models to…