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Israel Working on Coral-Nourishing Sunscreen
The adverse effects that some sunscreens and tanning oils have on coral reefs are well documented. But now, researchers in Israel are working on a sunscreen formulation that not only doesn’t harm…
Watch Reef Therapy Session #71 with Sara from The Butterfly Pavilion
Mark van der Wal is a busy guy, and this week he’s away doing his day job – I.T – but fear not, as Raj and Remy have been joined by Sara Stevens from The Butterfly Pavilion, and when she’s…
A Diffusion Tube is a Useful Device for Culturing Delicate Invertebrates
Aquarists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium utilize an ingenious yet seemingly simple device to culture a variety of “gelata”, the collective name for the pelagic gelatinous animals that drift in the plankton. Some of the better-known gelata are jellies and…
$30,000 Koi Tangs hit all-time Price High
Koi tangs are some of the most coveted fish available in the reefing hobby right now, with suggested pricing at an all-time high. We’ve seen a nearly all-white Zebrasoma scopas advertised for $32,999.99, followed by another at $29,999.99. A white,…
What Ozone and UV do on a Reef Tank
When you are starting a new tank there are always a lot of lists of different things. There is a definite need to have a list that includes things like a protein skimmer, lights, etc. Then there is a list…
Jeff Senske uses Freshwater Design Principles to Aquascape a Reef Tank
In the Aquascaping World, Jeff Senske and his brother Mike need no introduction. They head up Aquarium Design Group in Houston, Texas, and their tank designs have been featured on the covers of books and magazines, on social media, and…
Goniopora-eating nudibranchs: A Goni Gardener’s Worst Nightmare!
As if reefkeeping wasn’t hard enough at times, and keeping Goniopora spp. Flowerpot corals in particular, we must now treat Gonis like we would treat Zoanthus or Montipora, and treat, and inspect them for predatory nudibranchs. Goniopora naturally inhabits turbid,…
Panda Angelfish will have you Playing the Species Guessing Game
We love to play the fish ID game at Reef Builders, and this week we got to play it with the dwarf angelfish from the genus Centropyge pictured here. Our first guess was that it is a hybrid, as there…
How to Care for Your Reef Tank while On Vacation
There are many terms that we reefers have come to fear: RTN, Montipora eating nudibranchs, wife seeing the credit card bill, and Fedex losing the box. Unfortunately, many of us have come to fear something that we should look forward…
Positive Pet List Would Violate International Law, says German Pet Trade Association
The German Pet Trade & Industry Association, ZZF, has voiced strong opposition to the introduction of a Positive Pet List in Germany, saying that at the first step of such a list, all pets would be banned, followed by a…
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…
Eviota bacata is a New Species of dwarfgoby from New Caledonia
A new species of Eviota goby has been described from Grand Terra, New Caledonia, taking…
Signature Frags’ Split Personality Spliced Acro May Have Been Born Out of Stress!
Reef Builders is no stranger to spliced Acropora, but this one came out of British…
Reef Builders Raj Works on 10,000 Gallon Mega Tank Build
Raj has never really flexed his skill set to the Reef Builders audience before. He…
