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How to Maintain Your Magnesium, Calcium, and Alkalinity Levels
When maintaining an aquarium with corals, it is crucial to uphold specific levels of magnesium, calcium, and alkalinity. Without testing for these elements, your success with corals may be short lived. Most…
We Finally Get To See An Aberrant Naso Tang
Aberrant tangs have become a mainstay of exotic fish collectors in recent years but so far, the genre has been dominated by Zebrasoma species, with the odd Ctenochaetus or Acanthurus surgeonfish occasionally trying out the look. Besides having a blonde…
Unique Perspective: National Marine Sanctuaries on Liquid Galaxy
Liquid Galaxy Recently Liquid Galaxy released this video showing National Marine Sanctuaries. The Office of National Marine Sanctuaries serves as the trustee for a network of underwater parks encompassing more than 600,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters from Washington state…
Coral Box Wifi Dosing Pump Might Actually Do The Job
Coral Box is looking at getting into the wireless aquarium equipment space in a big way this year, and their opening salvo is a feature-rich wireless dosing pump. The Coral Box Wifi Dosing Pump is a compact 4-channel dosing system…
Unique Triggerfish Forgot it was Supposed to Have a Pink Tail!
For some reason, it seems like the aberrant triggerfish that come to our attention are almost always undulated triggerfish, but today it’s the pink-tail trigger’s turn to break the rules. Coming to us from Son’s Aquarium Fish Trading in the…
Some Recent Hero Corals Have Weird Inner Glow
Turbinaria is one of the groups of corals that has always been a mainstay of reef aquariums. Whether they are tiny little frags or big showy colonies, there’s always room for a Turbinaria in a reef aquarium and now we’ve…
Using Trace Elements In Saltwater Aquariums
Trace Elements There was an old commercial jingle that ended with “because little things mean a lot”. As we all know in this hobby that is a definite truism. Whether it is doing the little…
ORA’s Gold Lightning Maroon Could Be Very Different From The Originals
Just a few months after announcing the availability of lightning maroon clownfish, ORA made an even bigger announcement that they are now producing gold lightning maroon clownfish. This might seem like a small varietal change but regular and gold stripe maroon…
Glamorca Gyre Pump Is The Newest MaxSpect Licensee
The Glamorca Pump is the newest aquarium company to license MaxSpect’s very popular Gyre pump technology. In size and shape the Glamorca Pump is virtually identical to the real mccoy, but in some ways it doesn’t directly compete with the…
Caribbean Coral Diaries – Dichocoenia stokesi
The Coral Diaries series is a list of corals we have seen while diving around the world. We’ve created this series so that you can learn more about corals, and how to identify them on the reef. We encourage you…
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…
