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Will the REAL Apricot Basslet Please Stand Up?
Plectranthias are one of the funnest and prettiest group of small and rare reef fish. Besides P. inermis, the majority of the other species are only found in deep water and it’s…
Rare Ghostly White Longnose Butterflyfish Collected in Philippines
It’s been a good long while since we’ve seen a white longnose butterflyfish turn up in the aquarium hobby but we’ve got a fresh look at one thanks to Son’s Aquarium Fish Trading. The last time we saw a white Forcipiger…
Lifegard Introduces the Redesigned Pro Max UV Sterilizer
Ultraviolet sterilization of water is a practice that has been around for decades, but advancements in this segment of the aquarium market have been few and far between. Sure we’ve seen some micro UV Sterilizers in the form of one…
Chinese Companies are Serious About Aquarium Heaters!
If you were an aquarist in the 1990s and you were suddenly transported to 2018, you’d be very surprised to see that heater technology pretty much hasn’t changed, at least in America and Europe. Heater ‘technology’, if you can give…
Incredible Xanthic Eibl’s Angelfish Appears in Hong Kong
Pygmy angelfish are very popular marine aquarium fish because they pack a lot of personality and color into a very manageable size. But another thing that we can sometimes enjoy in the dwarf Centropyge genus is some really wildly aberrant specimens…
Zetlight Protein Skimmer features WiFi-enabled pump and app
Zetlight, the makers of the unique UFO LED light, A200 WiFi controller and the King Kong DC pump, also have a line of “smart” protein skimmers that integrate the WiFi connectivity of the King Kong and A200 to control the…
Hands On With the Aquatica AGH5 Housing Part 1: The ‘Core’
Selecting a housing can be a very personal decision based on a user’s particular needs so before deciding on the Aquatica AGH5 housing I reviewed many different options. Aquatica, Nauticam and Ikelite are some of the most widely available housings…
HyperCoral GC is a Coral Food Which is Invisible to Protein Skimming
HyperCoral GC is a new reef aquarium supplement which is formulated to provide total nutrition for aquarium corals. With a complete suite of vitamins, amino acids, and minerals which are essential for growing healthy and colorful corals. What makes HyperCoral…
Ostichthys alamai, a New Species of Highfin Soldierfish from Japan
Soldierfish and Squirrelfish are not the most common fish seen in reef tanks but they should be as they don’t touch coral at all. Ostichthys alamai is a new member of this group, more specifically a recently described species of…
ReefStock 2018 Video Recap by Mile High Reefers
When ReefStock first started way back in 2008 we were happy to welcome a whopping 200 reefers. Never could we have dreamed that ten years later, ReefStock would become an institutional part of the local reef scene and that 1,500…
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…
