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Awesome Fish Spotlight: Acanthurus triostegus
Acanthurus triostegus – Convict Tang By: Greg Collinske The convict tang is one of the most widespread Acanthurus species in the world as well as in our hobby. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific and Hawaii…
Caribbean Coral Diaries – Mussa angulosa
Spiny Flower Coral Mussa angulosa is a large polyp stony coral found in turbid Caribbean reefs. This coral has fleshy polyps which can grow in groups or as a single polyp. The polyps can be up to 10cm or 4inches…
Innovative Marine officially launch NUVO Fusion Peninsula tanks with a month of savings
Debuted late last year with a soft launch and limited availability, Innovative Marine is officially launching the NUVO Fusion Peninsula aquariums today with a month-long discount. The NUVO Fusion Peninsula comes in two sizes, a 14-gallon and a 20-gallon version,…
Chill Out Your Reef Tank With The Coldwind Cooler Aquarium Fan
We just arrived at Spring in the northern hemisphere so that means that temperatures are going to start heating up. It’s never too soon to make a plan to keep your aquarium cool in the face of extreme heat, and…
Make Your Protein Skimmer Mo’ Betta With Aquasonic Reefoam
While touring Australian local fish stores we’re keeping a keen eye on the product shelves because you never know what might be found. So far the most peculiar product to grab our attention is a protein skimming enhancer in a…
Australia LFS Tour: Found Some Delights At Hurstville Aquariums
The Australia Aquarium and LFS tour is in full swing over here in Sydney and boy are the videos stacking up. The second LFS to get the Reef Builders ‘review’ is Hurstville Aquariums, a small shop outside of town which is…
Looking Forward To The Future Of The Aquarium Hobby
Things I’m Looking Forward To While going through some old books and magazines I came across a poster for MACNA from over twenty years ago, it made me laugh as the topic of my talk was “The Future of the…
New Fauna Marin Skim Breeze scrubs CO2 from your skimmer air
Fauna Marin just announced its Fauna Marin Skim Breeze, its new carbon dioxide absorbing granular media for protein skimmer air feed purification. Fauna Marin isn’t the first company to bring a CO2 absorbant to the aquarium market (Two Little Fishies CDX is one that comes…
New Species: Cyphastrea salae From Lord Howe Island, Australia
Cyphastrea salae is the newest species of hard coral to be described from Lord Howe Island. The discovery of a new species, suggests that the fauna of this isolated location in the Tasman Sea off south eastern Australia is even…
Mystery behind Fang Blenny’s painless bite explained
For a fish with venomous spines or fangs, the bite of the fang blenny is pretty pain free. But why when every other animal seems to emit excruciating pain with every bite or prick of a spine? Some research scientists have…
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…
