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My Top 6 Simple Accessories Repurposed for Marine Aquariums
Visit your local fish store, and you’ll see shelf after shelf of equipment, implements, doodads, and thingamabobs specifically designed to make the maintenance of marine aquariums more manageable. But when you really…
The strange superpower of the clingfish
The craze of superhero movies recently has us thinking more about what superpower we would want — x-ray vision, the ability to change shape, flying, superhuman strength — but do we think about the ability to stick ourselves to things?…
Schuran & Abyzz collaboration creates the biggest Berlin protein skimmer
Schuran is an established crafter of fine acrylic aquarium equipment and tanks. Abyzz is a newer company making high performance controllable water pumps. Together Schuran and Abyzz have collaborated to create, or rather recreate, a classic protein skimmer design, venturi and all.…
MaxSpect Riptide is the first pump specifically designed to create gyre flow
The MaxSpect Riptide is arguably one of the most exciting products released at InterZoo which comes to us from a company better known for their LED lighting innovations. First we had centrifugal pumps, then we had propeller pumps, and now…
Siganus insomnis is a striking new species of rabbitfish from the Indian Ocean
Siganus insomnis is a new species of rabbitfish hailing from the Northern Indian Ocean around Sri Lanka, Southern India and Sri Lanka. While new species of rabbitfish don’t come along very often, the new “sleepless” rabbitfish is well worth the…
Tunze Care Magnet is designed with simple brilliance
Among many things, the Tunze Care Magnet is a reminder that Tunze still has the talent to create new and interesting solutions to problems we didn’t even know we had. We’ve got plenty of magnetic algae scrapers on the market…
ATI Sirius LED takes a novel approach to balancing LED color and intensity
ATI has a long and storied history of thinking differently when it comes to their marine aquarium products and the ATI Sirius LED reinforces that legacy very well. Built from multicolor LED clusters that straddle the line between a strip…
AutoAqua WeCam fish-feeder webcam is creative aquarium fun
The AutoAqua WeCam is unlike any other product that we’ve ever covered, and while its premise may be simple and lighthearted the possibilities for this device are very exciting. Essentially the AutoAqua WeCam is an automatic fish feeder linked up…
Panta Rhei used ultrasound to sex mega rare zebra pike cichlid
For many marine fish, it is impossible to determine the sex of a given reef species simply by looking at it. Many species of saltwater fish have differently colored sexes, dichromatic, or different shaped sexes, dimorphic, or in the case…
Ribbon Eels: Elegantly Exotic but Usually Best Left on the Reef
Why are the most attractive and interesting-looking marine fish always the most difficult to keep alive in aquariums? Okay, maybe this isn’t actually such a truism. After all, there are lots of gorgeous-yet-easy-to-keep fish in the aquarium trade. It just…
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…
