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Just in time for Winter: Tropic Marin reef snow
It wont actually make your tank any colder, but it might make your inhabitants happier. Reef snow, a new product from Tropic marine is a concentrated powder that when mixed with RO/DI…
Designer clownfish fascinating to some, repulsive to others
As long time aquarists, we are somewhat on the fence about so-called designer clownfish. On the one hand, a clownfish is already gorgeous, on the other hand, some of the picasso and naked clowns are somewhat novel to look at.…
Tropic Marin Reef ACTIF seeks to do just that
Reef ACTIF is a adsorber and bacterial nutrient for saltwater aquariums. The product is suspended in the aquarium water where it bonds with both nutrients and water contaminants making them available as nutrients to bacteria and other animals that feed…
Manhattan Reefs community gets creative with Reefs Magazine
The Manhattan Reefs community is an active group of marine aquarists with some new ideas about making an impact. The club organizes a very popular frag swap twice a year, they host one of the best attended parties at MACNA…
First video of the holy grail peppermint angelfish
The Peppermint Angelfish? We promise that ReefBuilders is not turning into a video farm but as rare as this fish is, the video recently posted on blueharbor.co.jp is the only one of it’s kind, that we know of. Furthermore, for…
New Advanced Aquarist issue online, tribute to late Peter Wilkens
A new issue of Advanced Aquarist Online Magazine is available as of today with tribute to the late great Peter Wilkens, the godfather of basic reef aquarium keeping as we all know it. Whether you keep a Berlin Reef, Ecosystem…
Aquacare TurboChalk calcium reactor very close to cold fusion
Seeing as one of our favorite new calcium reactors is the simplistic H&S line, it is painful just to look at this tabletop cold fusion device which Aquacare claims is a calcium reactor. The TurboChalk’s need for so many ports,…
Zeovit method increasing in popularity, examined
Seriously it is. If you haven’t heard of ZEOvit then where have you been? ZEOvit is a American German method of nutrient control. Using zeolites which are a group of natural occurring minerals on earth, hooked with a reactor, the…
Eye Bubble Lancing Video
We’ll warn you folks, this video is not for the squeamish, especially if you don’t like needles. However, the video demonstrates how relatively simple it is to ‘treat’ a fish with a noticeable gas bubble behind or around the eye.…
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…
Eviota bacata is a New Species of dwarfgoby from New Caledonia
A new species of Eviota goby has been described from Grand Terra, New Caledonia, taking…
Signature Frags’ Split Personality Spliced Acro May Have Been Born Out of Stress!
Reef Builders is no stranger to spliced Acropora, but this one came out of British…
Reef Builders Raj Works on 10,000 Gallon Mega Tank Build
Raj has never really flexed his skill set to the Reef Builders audience before. He…
