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It’s Time To Take A Closer Look At Clam Poop

Giant clams, like most coral species, survive in a symbiotic relationship with photosynthetic marine algae called Zooxanthellae. And while there are a small number of species which inherit zooxanthellae cells from their…

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Some Totally Hot Orange & Yellow Tip Elegance Corals

Interest in large polyp stony corals with super flowy tentacles has catapulted the Euphyllia corals to hyper popularity in recent years. The very fast growing and diverse torch corals are king of this trend but elegance corals are not far…

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Rare Liopropoma latifasciatum Spotted in the Diver’s Den

The blackstripe basslet is a very uninspired name for a little fish we just spotted in the Diver’s Den that deserves a moniker a whole lot more inspired. Better known as Liopropoma latifasciatum to the initiated rare fish fanciers, the pale colored…

Download Cardinalfishes of the World by Rudie Kuiter for Free

Cardinalfish are a diverse and very numerous group of marine fish that doesn’t get nearly enough airtime in the reef aquarium hobby. Save for a few species like the pyjama and banggai cardinalfish, there’s more than 350 known species of…

You Want to be Watching Brian Greene’s Videos

Brian Greene is no stranger to the pages of Reef Builders, nor to the annals of deep diving history having discovered a wide range of very cool and rare deepwater fish. In recent years it’s become easier than ever to…

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France’s Marineland Has Rare Captive Breeding of Gramma Dejongi

It appears that Gramma dejongi, once a very inaccessible reef fish is about to become a lot more common fish in the reef aquarium world. Right after Biota showed their first captive bred G. dejongi, a French Public Aquarium called Marineland…

Carbon Fiber Pipe is the Ultimate Status Symbol of Plumbing

If you thought colored PVC pipe was cool, just way until you get a look at the carbon fiber pipe that is starting to be used in some very high end reef aquarium plumbing work. We’ve always kept on eye…

Rossmont Skimer is both Controllable and Programmable

It’s been more than a year and a half since Rossmont let the world know about the world’s first AC controllable protein skimmer, initially called the Skemer, and now renamed the Rossmont Skimer. Whatever you call it the team at…

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All the HOT Corals Were at ReefStock Australia This Year

The two biggest reef shows of the summer, ReefStock Australia and MACNA, have come and gone and while we’re almost caught up on all the products from MACNA, we still have a lot to tell you about ReefStock Australia. Although this…

Porites farasani & P. hadramauti, Two New Stony Coral Species

Porites farasani & P. hadramauti are two new species of small polyp stony corals recently described from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. These two new Porites species were recognized as novel for having a very different growth form,…