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Blue Fireworks Scolymia Starts Blooming in Japan
Between the bleeding apples and warpaint scolies, the UFOs and the masters, there’s a lot of room for variability in the coloration and appearance of Australian scolies, Homophyllia australis. Whether they are solid green,…
ATI Straton LED Goes for the Sleek, Unibody Slab of Aluminum
The Straton LED by ATI is a sleek new high performance reef aquarium lighting fixture that is coming soon. The ATI Straton aims to be one of the most elegant reef aquarium lighting fixtures with no fans, no buttons, no…
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 parents, the vast majority need to acquire these…
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…
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…
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…
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…
