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Unseen Corals – The Forbidden Beauty of Distichopora
Distichopora is such a beautiful animal, it’s a pity that we still haven’t cracked its captive care in home aquariums. Whether that’s due to this ‘coral’ not being a coral at all,…
Rainford X Hector Goby Hybrid Is A Perfect Blend of Its Parents
Hector’s gobies and especially Rainford’s gobies are mainstays of the aquarium hobby, but little do most people know that their hybrids do trickle into the trade. This Koumansetta cross has a perfect blend of its parents, making it very easy…
On This World Oceans Day, Let’s Try To Do More For Coral Reefs
The reef aquarium hobby is such a wonderful cultural movement, it’s transformed how generations of us see, think and feel about wild coral reefs. Without successful reef aquariums and all that we’ve learned about corals from them, ‘coral reefs’ would…
First Look At The New Trailer For The Chasing Coral Movie
Chasing Coral is probably the first ever movie that is focused on real live corals, and not just the coral reef as an ecosystem. We already knew that Chasing Coral was going to be a Netflix exclusive feature but now…
The Future of Aquarium Lighting Is Probably In MicroLEDs
It’s been one helluva ride watching lighting technology progress through the lens of the aquarium hobby. For me at least, first it was NO, T8 and VHO fluorescent tubes, then it was discerning the difference between regular and pulse start…
Mike’s Nano Reef Makes a BIG Impression!
One of the very reasons that we love this hobby is that it doesn’t take a big tank to create a wonderful masterpiece and Michael Rice’s nano reef is the living embodiment of this. He’s got a simple setup with a…
Scorkl is a lightweight, portable mini SCUBA tank you can refill with a hand pump
If you recall the Titan Gills scam that ran on a crowdfunding website, there was the promise of swimming underwater, but a well designed video just couldn’t replace science. Well there is another Kickstarter project, Scorkl that just launched that is…
Birdnest Coral Shows Us How Reefs Might Recover From Massive Bleaching
With all the news that the Great Barrier Reef is dying, and has suffered very substantial damage and countless corals lost, it can be quite depressing to be a coral or reef lover. But if there’s one thing the media…
Caribsea Liferock Shapes Brings Dimension Back To Our ReefScapes
Man made or artificial live rock has come a long way since we were just fashioning stuff out of concrete and aragonite – anybody else remember aragocrete? Caribsea is raising the bar again with new Shapes of their popular LifeRock reef…
We Found The Ultimate Scolymia Habitat In Tela Honduras
Tela Honduras Sometimes the best discoveries happen by accident. Finding the ultimate Scolymia habitat in Tela was just that. The day started with a GPS point named Flor, after fishermen often seen floating above the exact same spot in the…
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…
