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Red Sea Reefer Tank makes American debut at ReefStock 2015
Right when you walked into the show floor of ReefStock 2015 last weekend, the first thing you saw is the glorious new creation from Red Sea called simply, the Reefer Tank. Aquarium manufacturers…
Trio of eye candy coral videos focus on fluorescence, macros and time lapse
If any animal is more worthy of closer scrutiny using macro video, time lapse, and fluorescence exposure, than corals, we don’t know what that creature is. Long time readers of Reef Builders will be familiar with the semi-regular sharing of…
Orphek Atlantic 300 is one beast of an LED pendant
Orphek announced the new beast of an LED pendant, the Orphek Atlantik 300, at Reefstock this past weekend in Denver. The new Orphek ATP300 is designed to replace 1000 watt metal halides in commercial installations and larger home systems. As…
East1’s 1.5 gallon SPS tank is the swankiest pico reef to date
Since the volumes associated with a ‘true’ pico reef is quite restrictive, we tend to think of pico reef tanks as examples of simplicity, and exercises in minimalism. Somehow, Nano-Reef forum user East1 failed to read that memorandum and charted…
Bashsea Mad Rack frag rack is a flexible way to manage, display your frags
Fragging is one of the best parts of the hobby and we’ve seen a plethora of frag storing options but the new Bashs ea Mad Rack frag rack may be one of the more innovative designs we’ve seen. One of…
Sneak peek at Hydor’s third generation Koralia water pump
The third generation Koralia pump is Hydor’s latest breed of propeller pump which really bring with them a next generation level of refinement. Any pump manufacturer can deliver incremental improvements to their newest pumps, kinda like what hydor did with…
Midweek Misnomer: Plectranthias (Zalanthias) azumanus vs Plectranthias (Zalanthias) kelloggi
This week’s Midweek Misnomer addresses the confusion between two Plectranthias species. Again with Plectranthias. We’re just having a good jive with the genus recently and the past three fish posts from me have been about this. The misidentification of various…
the AI Prime LED looks incredible on its own, and over reef tanks
The AI Prime LED is AquaIllumination’s smallest LED light to date and it is the first new product that has been designed after the merger of AquaIllumination and Ecotech Marine, with contributions from both companies’ engineers and designers. The resulting…
Soil Bacteria F1 takes its cue from the land to clean up your tank
Soil Bacteria F1 is a unique product from Japan that is an aerobic and anaerobic bacteria composite to reduce organic buildup in your reef aquarium. A reefer in Japan worked with a Japanese bacteria company that focused on soil to…
You’ve never seen a Trachyphyllia like this one
Is it a Acan lord? Is it a Lobophyllia? No this funkadelic coral is one of the wildest Trachyphyllia corals we’ve ever seen, with a crazy morphology to boot. This one of a kind Trachy was acquired by Aquatech Imports, a wholesaler…
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…
Breaking New Ground
Vibrant Corals and Fish Ushers in the First Legal CITES-Compliant Malaysian Coral Imports to the…
Tunze Launches English YouTube Channel
Known for its bulletproof pumps and German engineering, Tunze has also been big on YouTube…
