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Fancy Vectra Barb & Strainer Kits Coming Soon
The Vectra Barb & Strainer kit is a new pre-filter option for users of Ecotech Marine’s Vectra centrifugal pumps. These new fittings use the new larger diameter of the series 2 Vectra…
Elegance Corals are an Affordable Substitute to Torch Corals
There’s a full-on Gold Rush going on right now with Torch corals, and that has multiplied the price into unobtainium territory for most people, ourselves included. We just can’t, in good conscience, spend hundreds of dollars for a single coral…
All-White “Ghosted Out” Kessil A360X is Definitely Coming
Several months ago at MACNA we spotted something which really piqued our attention, and that was an all-white Kessil A360X. Since the early days of Kessil the black colored lights were reserved to the aquarium spectrum models, and the white…
Purple Sea Urchins are hungry; headed for your tank next
Purple Sea Urchins or Strongylocentrotus purpuratus are eating their way through the underwater kelp forests in California and now moving north towards Oregon. A recent count found 350 million purple sea urchins on one Oregon reef alone — more than…
Red Sea adds 3 year warranty on Reefer series aquariums; 2020 US launch
While Red Sea just announced their new Reefer aquariums in different sizes, a critical update to their line of aquariums is they are now offering a 3-year warranty. Plus, first-time buyers are allowed to register to extend their warranty for…
World Wide Corals Superstore Opening Next Weekend, Nov. 2nd & 3rd
It seems like World Wide Corals has been working on their new location for a really long time but at long last the wait is over. Although World Wide Corals seems to have an outsize presence online, the beating heart…
Colombo Marine Test Stirrer Simplifies Calcium & Magnesium Testing
The new magnetic Test Stirrer from Colombo is the kind of quality-of-life accessory that we need much more of in the aquarium hobby. Some tests like pH and alkalinity are easy enough to perform, but have you ever tried to…
Corals are Migrating to Cooler Water, Shifting Towards the Poles
A recent publication from Yale university is highlighting the response of certain coral species to climate change. Observations are done on a daily basis in Japan, Australia, US east Coast, Hawaii… that an ‘unheralded ecological regeneration may be underway’ in…
Bunga, Laeta and Phenganax: Lots of Micro Octocorals Finally get Named
Bunga, Laeta & Phenganax are the new taxonomic homes for a wide variety of small, nondescript octocorals that often hitchhike into our aquariums on coral bases and live rocks. Phenganax is an existing genus which just inducted two new species…
Coral-Bacteria Communities are WAY More Important than Anyone Thought
Reading through different coral scientific publication, we came across one, that could be quite relevant for us reef aquarist. In this publication published in Nature, scientist from the Red Sea Research center, from the King Abdullah University of Science and…
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…
