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A Walkthrough of Fishy Business, my Childhood LFS
Having a good knowledgeable local fish store is one of the most important factors to starting off right in the aquarium hobby, fresh or salt. Today there’s more saltwater aquarium departments and…
Real Reef Teases Murdered Out Black Live Rock
Live rock, whether wild or manmade is only supposed to come in a few familiar colors, usually shades of green and purple for the real stuff and white to grey for the manmade stuff, sometimes solid purple. Real Reef pioneered the…
Mitras LX 7204 is a Smaller 4-cluster LED Light from GHL
The Mitras LX 7204 is anew smaller LED light fixture from GHL but don’t go calling it a nano reef light. The 4-cluster LX 7204 packs all the great same functionality of the 6-cluster LX 7206 with multi-channel control, active…
MackFlow1 Dual Output Pump with Built-in Flow Alternator
The MackFlow1 is unlike any single pump we’ve seen before, but its features do remind us of several different products. Developed in Australia and debuted at Reefapalooza Orlando last weekend, the MackFlow1 is the first product from Mack Aquarium Solutions. …
Hydor’s got an Original Controllable Pipeless Protein Skimmer
The new pipeless protein skimmer design from Hydor is an innovative take on one of the hobby’s most important pieces of equipment. It’s been a long while since Hydor presented us with a new protein skimmer, nine years to be…
DX18 Dimmable Hybrid T5HO Fixture from AquaticLife
The DX18 is a brand new T5/LED hybrid light fixture which AquaticLife just announced last weekend at Reefapalooza Orlando. When they first launched their ‘bring your own LED’ T5 hybrid light, we don’t think anyone could have predicted how well…
Proper Collection on a ‘Perfect’ Stony Coral Reef
As soon as we landed in Mackay, Nic from Ultra Coral Australia took us on a dive through the last bit of a good weather window. He took us on a reef that he regularly visits to Harvest Acropora and similar…
Papua New Guinea Fish & Corals Coming Summer 2019
Papua New Guinea has long been a hotspot for biological diversity on land and especially in the Sea. Taxonomists of every discipline always find new species when they search PNG’s natural environments, birders marvel at the endemic birds of paradise,…
ACI’s Purple-Tail Purple Tang was the Star of Reefapalooza Orlando!
The purple tang’s official scientifically designated name is Zebrasoma xanthurum – ‘yellow tail’ is the hallmark of this species. While tens of thousands of purple tangs have no problem following this convention, every once in a while a lone ranger decides to…
Great Barrier Reef Coral Larval Recruitment Declined in 2018
A new study published in the journal Nature, scientist have showen that coral larval recruitment on some parts of the Great Barrier Reef is on the decline, with up to 89% less recruitment compared to historical level. The greatest decline…
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…
