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Cirrhitichthys bleekeri- A lesser known Hawkfish
If you think the Golden Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys aureus) from the Pacific is rare; you should reconsider after hearing about its close cousin from the Indian Ocean, the Bleeker’s Hawkfish (C. bleekeri). At first…
Porous coral skeletons are great surrogates for bone grafts
The Israeli desert is not exactly where you’d expect to find a coral farm, so far from the Red Sea, but in the Negev desert is precisely where OkCoral has set up their coral farming operation. Unlike the typical coral…
Reefscapes Model Series from Tropical Marine Centre will be available this month
One of the funnest “new products” of Interzoo earlier this year was easily the ReefScape Model Series by Tropical Marine Centre in association with BrightBricks, the UK’s only LEGO®Certified Professional. While you could theoretically put the ReefScape fish and critters…
Giesemann Aurora LED/T5 hybrid launches, gives best of both worlds
The new Giesemann Aurora LED/T5 hybrid is an impressive looking light fixture that combines the best of both worlds – the efficiency, shimmer and color potential of LEDs and the spread and cover of T5 fluorescent lighting. The German company…
Does the surface area of live rock really matter?
The reef aquarium hobby is a past time of expendable income and mental bandwidth; this explains why even though the focus is supposed to be about reef life like corals, fish and inverts, we get sucked into long esoterical discussions…
ORA Thumps Chest With New Captive Bred Orbicularis Cardinalfish
ORA is certainly in the fast lane this fall bringing new species into captive culture. Their Halloween evening announcement of captive-bred Orbic Cardinalfish, arguably was timed perfectly to get lost in the end of the week, holiday madness. Trying to slide…
3 Misconceptions About Small Marine Fish
As human beings, it’s in our nature to assign certain traits to small animals—cute, dependent, harmless, defenseless, etc. Perhaps we think this way because when it comes to animals, people included, smallness is usually correlated with infancy. However, if applied…
Coral RX One Shot gets fresh look — more portable and potent
Coral RX and its Coral RX One Shot single dose options of the Coral RX dip are getting a new look. We loved these when they came out a few years ago and are excited to see the handy and…
World Aquatic Industry looks to provide global database for all things aquatic
The World Aquatic Industry directory (WAID) is a new endeavor that is launching today to create a global online repository of all things aquatic — fish stores, service companies, public aquariums, product vendors, aquaculture facilities and more. The online database,…
LGM Aquari’s heavy duty ‘fiber-optic’ phytoplankton reactor
The aquarium phytoplankton reactor is a product whose existence is known about in North America, but nowhere have we seen it more exalted than in Italy where countless manufacturers offer a myriad of ways to grow liquid salad for our…
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…
