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NemoLight AquaMarine LED from AquaMaxx
The NemoLight AquaMarine is a new LED strip light from AquaMaxx with a focused design for medium light reef tanks. By delivering features that users really need and stripping away everything they…
Saving corals reefs around Pangkor Island, Malaysia
Pangkor Island is a small resort island off the west coast of Perak, Malaysia. The coral reefs that surround the Island were once rich in diversity, however today they are suffering from multiple sources of degradation. Tourism has had a negative…
Pro-Tein Clean Review: one of the most automatic skimmers to date
The Pro-Tein Clean protein skimmer is a new take on a pretty standard piece of reef aquarium quipment. We all know everything there is to know about protein skimmers, right? You pump water in, mix it with air and capture…
Scuba diver sucked into a nuclear plant water pipe files lawsuit
On July 12 2015, Christopher Le Cun said he was sucked into an intake pipe at the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant in Southern Florida. In a video posted on the WPTV news website Christopher recounts the terrifying experience as he was…
Submersible Systems Spare Air Pack Review
As new divers, just started studying for open water certification (only did up to first pool dive training thus far), my wife and I decided it would be fun to take our first actual scuba dives with a PADI Discover…
Exclusive: Aqua Illumination is using freaking robots to measure light
If you’ve got a modern controllable LED reef aquarium light on the market, you can’t market it to savvy reefers without at least divulging some of the specific levels of light intensity. As well-informed reefers, we want to know the…
Texas LFS owner tragically killed in attempted robbery
The reef hobby is a small, tight family and we are always sad to hear when we lose a member of the family. This past weekend, Alfred “Al” Armour, the owner of Dynamic Reef Systems in Carrollton, Texas., was tragically…
Specialized Care is Key to Success with Sun Corals
When ascribed to the various species of the genus Tubastraea, the common name “sun coral” is both fitting and ironic. It’s fitting when you consider that the spectacular polyps of many Tubastraea species can quite justifiably be described as sun-like…
World’s smallest reef aquarium created by coral scientists
You’ve heard of mini reefs, nano reefs, pico reefs, femto reefs but forget about all that because scientists have just taken the title of the world’s smallest coral aquarium. The coral-on-a-chip is the smallest possible live aquarium environment consisting of a single…
Poseidon’s Feast and OceanMagik from AlgaeBarn
We met with the team from AlgaeBarn at this years ReefStock event to learn more about their Poseidon’s Feast copepod mix and OceanMagik live phytoplankton. On their own, each product will feed your reef, but together they can help create a live food…
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…
