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Aqua Excel’s Surprisingly Attractive New Skimmer Design
Aqua Excel is a Chinese aquarium product manufacturer best known for making affordable protein skimmers and similar devices. Their skimmer designs fall mostly under the realm of ‘pragmatic’ and functional but a…
The World Wide Corals 900 Gallon Show Tank 3+ years later
There is a saying that time does not pass, it continues. We originally did an article that we published way back in November 2014 called “A masterpiece is born: time lapse aquascaping of World Wide Corals’ new show tank” Now…
Sustainable Aquatics’ Captive Bred Lemonpeel & Cream Angelfish
Sustainable Aquatics is on something of a hot streak when it comes to breeding new marine fish lately. Wandering far from the well-travelled paths of captive breeding clownfish & dottybacks, Sustainable Aquatics has recently tried and succeeded at rearing several…
Platygryra Fusion When Colonies Collide
When unrelated corals and colonies grow into each other on the reef, one of three things tend to happen; Coral A kills Coral B, Coral A overgrows Coral B, or they simply come to a mutual standstill. These two different Platygyra scribbled brain…
Armored Fish Would Have Made the Best-Worst Aquarium FIsh
We spend a lot of time pining over and dreaming about fish we will likely never own, and maybe even never see. But there’s a whole world of wild and crazy fish that we know about, but which we know no…
Great White Protein Skimmer Debuting at ReefStock Australia
The Great White from Dalua Australia is a curious protein skimmer with a curious combination of features. This pipeless skimmer set to debut at ReefStock Australia was designed in Australia, made in Taiwan, and uses a high quality Italian needle…
The Unicorn Coral, Acropora multiacuta spotted in Manado, Sulawesi
Acropora multiacuta is one of those unicorn corals, one you see in a book, but never truly believe you can find it in the wild. And then in the most unexpected place, it appears. We stumbled across this rare coral specimens while…
Zeagle’s Recon Fin Wins 2018 Testers Choice Award for Technical Fins
Recon fins are recognized as among the best fins designed for ultimate thrust, control and stability for technical dives and alternative kicking styles. Now available with color kits. A TOTAL RETHINK OF FIN GEOMETRY Recon’s revolutionary design wowed the testers…
How Much Waste Does a Filter Roll Remove?
Since the advent of automatic filter rolls, no one has been more keen on this approach to mechanical filtration making it to consumer grade than us. Since 2010 we’ve watched as automatic filter rolls have gotten smaller, cheaper, and more…
Wild Hybrid Conspicuous Angelfish makes American Debut
The conspicuous angelfish, Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus, is and has been the holy grail of saltwater angelfish for home aquariums for a generation of collectors. Sure there’s more exotic species like the Debelius and Tiger angelfish but that doesn’t detract from the high…
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…
