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Banggai Cardinalfish Are Full Of Personality To Quickly Fill A Small Tank
When deciding what fish to get for our new reef tank, a captive-bred Banggai cardinalfish was always at the top of my list. Hardy, and adaptable and full of personality we knew…
Drill Pumps Belong in Your Aquarium Toolbox
Long before we had purpose built equipment and devices, the general aquarium hobby was grown and built off a DIY ethos with lots of improvisations and freestyling along the way. Now that we have a huge catalog of aquarium accessories,…
Moving a Huge Colony of Acropora efflorescens [Video]
Acropora efflorescens is one of our long time favorite species of Acropora in an aquarium, they have the coolest shape, awesome color, and can quickly grow to large sizes in captivity. These qualities mean that Acro Efflo frags are available…
Shrimp World! Take A Peek At Some Of The Worlds Tiniest Saltwater Shrimp [VIDEO]
Feast your eyes on some of the ocean’s most teeny-tiny shrimps! Filmed and edited by Marcelo Johan Ogata ‘BugDreamer’, the video Shrimp World is packed with some of the ocean’s most exotic, and iconic crustaceans. Marcelo’s is an underwater filmmaker…
Salty Q&A: Why Do Hobbyist Anecdotes Differ So Dramatically?
Q: I’ve been battling hair algae in my tank for months, and I can’t seem to beat it no matter how much of the stuff I pull out, what herbivores I add, or how often I change water to lower…
Aqua Medic Refill Fix Nano ATO
Refill Fix is a new low tech device from Aqua Medic that is ‘designed’ to provide a small amount of make up water lost due to evaporation. We would only loosely describe the Aqua Medic Refill Fix as being designed…
Mantis Shrimp Are Masters At Seeing And Controlling Light
The killer punch of the mantis shrimp is the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, a skill that goes hand in hand with its extraordinary eyesight. They can see an invisible level of reality using polarized light. Thanks to the…
The ‘Fiji’ Yellow Leather Coral, Sarcophyton elegans
The ‘Fiji’ Yellow Leather is a living conundrum of a coral that is readily available in the hobby, but somehow also seems a little inaccessible. Contrary to most leather corals, there is a consensus that this yellow toadstool coral is…
Beginner Tips For LPS Corals
While researching online, you will come across the word LPS corals without knowing much about them. So, we’ve put together these tips for a better understanding of these large puffy colorful corals. For new aquarists, Large Polyp Stony (LPS) corals…
GNC BluRay Pro Goes Even Deeper Into the Blue
The BluRay Pro is a new high performance LED light from Italian aquarium light manufacturer GNC. This is their newest light model that we would have seen had InterZoo taken place which is a shame because GNC makes some of the…
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…
