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AquaLife Reef Cafe is like Starbucks for your coral
Reading over the menu for the new Aquarium Life AquaLife Reef Cafe sounds more like a menu from a coffee shop or health food cafe that food for your reef tank. Taking…
New Tropic Marin ELIMI-NP and NITRIBIOTIC for nutrient reduction
Tropic Marin release a couple of new products, Tropic Marin ELIMI-NP and Tropic Marin NITRIBIOTIC, that help reduce nutrients in your reef aquarium. ELIMI-NP is a liquid carbon dosing concentrate and NITRIBIOTIC is a combination of both probiotic and nitrifying bacteria. We…
National Marine Fisheries Service requests Comments from public to ascertain a potential 4(d) ruling on threatened corals
Uh oh. It looks like someone is doing their job at the National Marine Fisheries Service. Do you remember the 20 species of corals that were listed as threatened in 2014? The agency stated today: “We are now considering whether…
Centropyge deborae can be a beautiful pygmy angelfish (in the right light)
Centropyge deborae is one of the pygmy angelfish which holds a very special place in our hearts since it was one of the first new species of angelfish that we got to write about before it was described, and thoroughly…
The Flame Hawkfish: a Vision in Red
I’ve long been a fan of the hawkfishes, and many a specimen has graced my various tanks over the years—most often the readily available and affordable (for me) Falco’s hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys falco). But another hawk that I’ve always found particularly…
“Eclectus” mushroom anemone takes Jawbreaker shrooms to a whole new level
The Jawbreaker mushroom is the strain of ‘Discosoma’ which single handedly showed us that mushroom anemones could be a striking aquarium animal and that Corallimorphs have plenty of strains worth collecting. The new Eclectus mushrooms from Bali aquarium raise the bar once…
Casper the white tang has undergone a radical transformation
Casper the world-famous all-white yellow tang is quickly becoming the best documented specimen of a surgeonfish in aquariums, or in the wild. From humble beginnings in mid-2010, the little blanched Zebrasoma flavescens first gained notoriety as one of the crowning animals…
Tropic Marin All-For-Reef has all your minerals and trace elements covered
The new Tropic Marin All-For-Reef is a new product to keep all the essential minerals and trace elements topped up in your aquarium. Tropic Marin All-for-Reef is a highly concentrated solution that gives you an easy way to dose these…
Aquatics retailers: Amazon is now the #1 Competition
Amazon might be hurting fish stores more than other online stores, that’s according to interviews conducted by Reef Builders and talking to major retailers across the country. The data suggests that consumers are comparison-shopping online and in stores for popular…
Tanks A Lot has brilliant idea with their Live Brine Shrimp cups
Anyone who’s ever worked at the local fish store knows that bagging feeders for customers is one of the least glamorous parts of the job, and for marine aquarium shops, that staple is live brine shrimp. Live brine has been…
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…
