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Pacific Acropora hybrid intentionally crossed and a wild colony identified
Acropora prolifera is a confirmed ‘hybrid species’ of stony coral living in the Caribbean which is a direct F1 hybrid between the actual species, A. cervicornis and A. palmata. This precedent for Acropora hybridization…
The Challenges of Collecting Natural Sea Water for Your Marine Aquarium
Given the ready availability—and relative affordability—of high-quality synthetic sea salt mixes, it’s not surprising that the vast majority of marine aquarium hobbyists today choose to use artificial sea water rather than collect the natural stuff from the ocean for their…
The two year progress video of Schwing’s Reef
There’s something about progression videos and pictures that we really love. It’s easy for any armchair blogger to say device X does such and such, but there’s nothing, there’s no replacement for actual, great documentation of coral growth and reef…
Apex Gold System bundles all the best and most important accessories
Neptune System is shipping a new assemblage of its best wares into a complete kit called the Apex Gold System. For the Apex Gold System, Neptune Systems took the best stuff (lab ORP, lab ph, salinity module and lab salinity probe)…
A system for automatically feeding fresh and live food to aquarium fish
The concept of this autofeeder was born from the desire to keep food cold, as it was fed out all day to several exhibits without having to set up a full blown refrigerated feeder like the type pioneered by master…
Double unboxing of the AI Director and Hydra 52
The reef scene is currently being graced by the best, brightest, and most sophisticated aquarium LED lights that we’ve ever seen. Leading the pack of this advanced lighting future is the rich family of LED lights from Aqua Illumination, with…
Behind the scenes look at Cortez Tropical Marine’s clarion collection
Tangerine orange coloured clarion angelfishes are one the most well known of Holacanthus, and are becoming a common sight out of Baja imports. Everyone’s familiar with their fiery beauty, and the juveniles that are adorned with metallic blue striations. But…
The marine aquarium hobby and its influence on our sense of style
We recently came across some photos displaying a woman’s eye makeup inspired by our salty friends and it looks totally rad. While there’s no denying that this hobby is dominated by males, heres to hoping that this will be something…
Breaking down the Radion G3 LED and third generation Radion Pro
The third generation Radion G3 LED and its higher end Pro counterpart have a seriously cool new design and more revisions than previous incarnations. We reached out to Ecotech Marine about the new Radion G3 LED and learned that there’s…
The Calcium Reactor: A Device Well Worth its Salt
A hobby like reef keeping has its fair share of intimidating technologies. I suppose it doesn’t help to call certain technologies sterilizers, fractionators, or reactors, which further instills a sense of complexity. One such device is the calcium reactor, and…
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…
