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Barry Brown updates with more deepwater Curacao treasures including an undescribed Decodon
Barry Brown is an avid underwater photographer that has spent the last decade or so documenting fish and other marvellous creatures in Curacao, and is working with the Smithsonian Institution in documenting…
Blackworms Mean Better Health for Marine Fish
Live worms are about the best thing we can feed to our fish. How do I know this? Am I just making it up so I have something to write? Actually, no. Live California blackworms have been used for ornamental…
Cobalt Aquatics E-X-T GFO filter sponge is a handy way to pull out PO4
The Cobalt Aquatics E-X-T GFO filter sponge is a new chemical filter from Cobalt Aquatics with phosphate remover built right in. Filter pads impregnated with chemical media have been around for years, but to date the mediums used have been zeolite…
ARKA Vida GT doser seen in the wild
The ARKA Vida GT doser is quite simply the most ambitious dosing pump system that has yet been conceived for the home aquarium. The Vertex Libra pushed the envelope a decent amount with stepper motors, high quality dosing heads and…
Eshopps LED lights toying with a couple different funky designs
Eshopps LED are coming and the company’s first few fixtures will be a little out of the norm. While you might expect Eshopps to comission some LED fixtures that they might somehow be encase in its signature white or blue…
Pacific Island Elhorn Acropora really does look a lot like A. palmata
Almost four years ago we shared with you the discovery of a Pacific Elkhorn Acropora coral; today we can tell you about finding and seeing this coral for ourselves and boy does it look a lot like its Caribbean counterpart.…
Coral Morphologic has a unique twist to the idea of a ‘public’ aquarium in Miami
Coral Morphologic has a unique and inexpensive approach to a public aquariums in Miami — creating a more welcoming area around the city’s South Pointe Park. By taking advantage of the abundant marine life right under Miami’s nose, the city can…
This unreal creature is indestructable
Straight out of the WTF column, this creature is odd and indestructible. Probably the toughest creature on Earth, the tardigrade or water bear, can survive extreme cold, outer space, dehydration and probably a nuclear war. Using cryptobiosis, the tardigrade can send its metabolic…
Dupla Marin calibrated hydrometer reads specific gravity in high resolution
It’s been a looooong time since Dupla made waves in the reef hobby outside of Europe but its new Dupla Marin Hydrometer, a new high-precision and accurate hydrometer, might get them back on the map. You may be asking yourself “why…
Tomiyamichthys nudus is a beautiful shrimp goby that bears resemblance to a small Flabelligobius
Tomiyamichthys nudus is relatively new species described only in 2012, and published in Allen and Erdmann’s new book on reef fishes of the East Indies. Previously, it has only been known as Tomiyamichthys sp, or sometimes incorrectly as Flabelligobius sp,…
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…
