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Monaco will install 3D printed reefs to battle declining reefs
Global warming is rearing its ugly head around on the world’s reefs and Monaco is taking an interesting path to help rejuvenate strained reefs by using 3D printed reefs to help sustain its…
First look at the intriguing new Rossmont Waver aquarium controller
The Rossmont Waver is an interesting new aquarium pump controller which is the first to be able to adjust the flow speed of AC pumps and powerheads. Until now, if you wanted to have controllable water pumps, your only real…
Top 7 winners of the world’s greatest aquascaping competition
In the marine aquarium side of the hobby, we pay a lot of lip service to ‘Aquascape’ as a concept. But in freshwater aquariums, the aquascape of the Nature Aquarium is practically a religious affair. Every year, contestants from all over…
Shed Some Varied Light on Your Reef
The other night, as I was watching the debate on TV, I noticed that my reef tank got darker. Just a little, but it was darker and yellower. I opened the front (it is in a wall) and noticed that…
A gorgeous colony of Blastomussa loyae from the Red Sea
Blastomussa is a celebrated genus of stony corals in the home aquarium, but there’s still a lot we don’t know about the biodiversity of this coral group. For starters, we confused the Indo-Pacific Blastomussa for B. wellsi for many years, until…
Proco Noise Reducer for heavy duty pumps
A couple months ago while visiting the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institute of Oceanography we had the chance to tour the facility with Fernando Nosratpour. While perusing behind the scenes we spotted an interesting plumbing part that we’d never heard…
Dlink Wifi water sensor is like a Dropcam for leaks
The Wifi Water Sensor is an interesting and useful new device from Dlink, a company better known for making a boatload of wireless routers. This new connected device is a stand alone product for leak detection which pairs up directly…
Breaking Up is Hard to do
There’s a dirty little secret that no one in the hobby will tell you, but I will. Once you get good at this, corals grow, and no I don’t mean the “1cm per year” that your dive boat captain will…
The Pros and Cons of Aquascaping Marine Aquariums with Dry Rock
When aquascaping their tanks, marine aquarium hobbyists have the option of using live rock or dry rock (or some combination thereof) to create the foundational reef structure. Each of these options is completely workable but, as with every aspect of…
Tunze LED Review: the perfect aquarium utility light
When we first learned that Tunze was building an LED light of their own, we were really curious about what kind of light they would make. When the Tunze LED striplight was finally unveiled at InterZoo, the resulting lighting device…
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…
