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Tropic Marin Carbocalcium, Liquid Buffer and new test kit for your hardness and pH needs
We continue to share some of the new products Tropic Marin has rolled our recently and we are now focusing on Tropic Marin Carbocalcium and Tropic Marin Liquid Buffer to address issues…
Rainbow Corals: The Master Aquarium List
Twenty years ago, “mini reef hobbyists” were lucky to get corals in a particularly juicy shade of brown, and if they were lucky there might be a hint of green in an elegance coral or trachyphyllia. But this is 2015…
Awesome Fish Spotlight: What do you call a pig that cannot oink?
A pig that’s not a pig, it’s a babi wrasse! For the record, if you said bacon you’d also be correct. “Babi” is the Malay and Indonesian word for pig, and apart from delicious Balinese cuisine like Babi Guling, it is…
Tropic Marin Zootonic and Lipo-Garlic help nourish your aquarium
Two more products recently unveiled by Tropic Marin are the foods designed to meet the nutritional needs of your reef tank. First off is Tropic Marin Zootonica, a plankton substitute to supply plankton filter feeders all the vital nutrients such…
Monochrome magnifica, the almost magnificent fire fish
Somewhere along the primeval soup of genetic crossing and embryonic development, a magnificent fire fish decided to break free from the metaphorical cloning factory and decided to be different. The concept of massed produced factory clones is not limited only…
Saturday Morning Coffee with Mike Paletta
Like many of you, as an avid reader of ReefBuilders, I feel a sense of withdrawal on the weekends when Jake and the crew typically do not post a whole lot of new material. Granted like…
Pseudanthias cf. aurulentus from the Coral Sea may turn out to be a new species
The genus Pseudanthias is growing at a rate of at least one new member per year as the reefs of the Pacific continue to drip feed us with brand new, never before seen species. In 2013 we saw the appearance of the…
Submerged induction light powers a cold-water macroalgae tank
As far as lighting technologies go, induction lamps are quasi-absent in the aquarium hobby and the biggest marketing push of this lighting technology has been geared towards growing terrestrial plants. One of the things that makes induction lighting efficient and…
Bellevue H.S. Marine Science Lab Expands
Last year I introduced you to David Bowers and the incredible marine science classroom laboratory he runs at Bellevue High School in Ohio, USA. Over the last 20 years, David and his students have transformed the humble classroom from a…
Beautiful colony of rare Madracis spotted at World Wide Corals
As the coral enthusiasts that we are, we live for the rare, the unusual, and the corals that are otherwise challenging to identify. Case in point is this super neat Madracis coral that we spied at the World Wide Corals Farm…
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…
