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Propagating Gracilaria for fun and food!
At MACNA XXI two weeks ago, I had the honor of doing a workshop on propagating my favorite  macroalgae, Gracilaria. This genus has a lot going for it, as far as us…
Are Yellow and Scopas tangs more than kissing cousins?
Sometimes the best discoveries in science are happy accidents, and this year researchers at the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding uncovered some genetic data which supports ideas that hobbyists have been suspecting for years: namely, that some fishes we assumed…
Aquarium nuisance lends its “sting” to medicine
Aiptasia. The name alone brings shudders through many aquarists’ bodies but this prolific reef tank nuisance is being put to good use by the Israeli bio-medical firm NanoCyte. According to a recent article in New Scientist, the company has found…
Marine Depot’s Forum Giveaway
Marine Depot has a new giveaway (disclosure: they sponsor RB) that is celebrating their newly designed forum. The contest is actually pretty simple, post a comment in their thread and then you’ll be entered into their contest. You can win…
Mazzucato Nano Aquarium Sculpture is perhaps the most expensive nano ever made
The Mazzucatto Aquarium Sculpture is simply amazing, Huge thanks to Shaun Stinnett for the story and the write up! We spend so much time looking for the next big thing in this Industry, sometimes it is fun to see where…
Tropical Eden’s new Aragavive live sand
The Tropical Eden line of reef-collected aragonite substrates went “live†with its new Aragavive live aragonite sand. The Aragavive line comes in four flavors, depending on how fine or how large you like your substrate and you have to love…
Yellow Assessor Basslets (Assessor flavissimus) available again from ORA
Yellow Assessors Basslets (Assessor flavissimus) have been bred in captivity by ORA before but they’ve recently gotten productive enough to start shipping these to stores. Up until very recently Yellow assessor Basslets were only availabel as wild caught when they…
Caribsea’s Purple Up issued Patent, purple isn’t safe any longer
You’ve most likely heard of Purple Up, the product that some aquarists use when they can’t seem to get any coraline algae growing in their saltwater aquariums. Besides being a very popular product, Caribsea, the manufactuer has been touting that…
Live Bottles are reborn as Aquacultured Art by Atlantic Reef Aquaculture
Live Bottles for use in Mini Reef aquariums used to be as common as normal output fluorescents, bristle worm traps and dolomite. It was absolutely commonplace to see at least one or two live bottles in the reef displays of…
Reef Builders welcomes Christine Williams as our newest regular contributor
Reef Builders has been growing and expanding our coverage to include as much reef news, science, information and events as possible. To sustain this growth we are pleased to announce Christine Williams as the first of several big-time speaker/author contributors…
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…
