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Algae to produce fuel in europe, plant will cost $92 million, who knew?

GreenFuel Technologies, the Cambridge, MA, alternative energy company has reached an agreementâ€”worth up to some $92 millionâ€”to build an algae-based fuel plant in Europe, according to sources close to the firm. GreenFuel…

John Shedd Reed, 1917 – 2008

Mr. Reed, 90, former chairman and chief executive officer of Santa Fe Industries, died of natural causes Saturday, March 15, in his Lake Forest home. Mr. Reed served on the aquarium’s board for 47 years and as president from 1984…

H20 Ocean, could have been the best reef salt in the world

H2Ocean Pro+ is a new pro formula aquarium salt – produced by a solar evaporative process which produces a totally natural base salt where all of the main and trace elements and are in complete balance as nature intended. The…

Instant Ocean’s Skimm line of Protein Skimmers, marketing department fails again

Spectrum Brands, Inc. the company that owns Marineland and brings you Instant Ocean by the container load released a new skimmer under their Instant Ocean Brand. Say hello to the “skimm” line. (really marketing guys over there, could you not…

ATB external skimmers commith

ATB apprently has a new external model coming, using a Laguna 2400 motorblock, allowing the pump to pull 3,000lph. Click the read link for more pics.

Tank of the Month: February 2008, Reef Builders Member: Carym

In October of 2004, started with a smaller 30 gallon reef setup, still have some of the same corals and fish that I started with in that tank, but it was always a dream of mine to do a saltwater…

Study: Ocean “deserts” are expanding

A new report stated that the worlds ocean “deserts” are expanding. An ocean desert is the least biologically productive area in an ocean. This study was conducted from 1998 and 2007. The study found three major points: In the Pacific,…

Six-Legged “Hexapus” Discovered (like octoupus, sorta)

We know you have been thinking where you can aquire a hexapus for your reef aquarium. You thought about a octopus, but that is so 1990’s. Recently, “caretakers at a British aquarium recently discovered that one of its newest residents,…

Live in the Springfield Illinois area? Join the new reef club

Interested in reef tanks? Live in the Springfield Illinois area? Then you might consider joing the Springfield Illinois Reef Builders Club (SIRB). They just set their new site up and you can access and join if you like. Tell them…

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