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Unboxing the Vossen Aquatics Larval Snagger
If you’re into fish or invertebrate breeding, or even if you just have them spawning in your reef tank, one of the largest hurdles is getting the offspring out of your aquarium…
Automatic frozen fish food feeder is in the running for best DIY project ever
While in Phoenix, as we do wherever we go, we went on a tour of tanks and stores in the area and came across something truly unique. We’ve seen our fair share of awesome private tanks, killer equipment rooms and…
The Golden Hamlet is one of the crown jewels of Caribbean reef fish
As close as we Americans live to the Caribbean Sea, we are woefully under-informed as to the wealth of beautiful corals and reef fish that live there. Case in point is the jaw-dropping gorgeous golden hamlet, Hypoplectrus gumigutta which Japanese and…
Kamoer dosing pump review
The Kamoer dosing pump machine is a system of peristaltic pumps not unlike many we have seen before. Most similarly, the Kamoer and Bubble Magus have a lot of features in common, including three master units to control slave units…
ORA announces White Bonnet Clownfish coming in 2014 (with awesome video)
As you may recall, last year we reported a story about a very special pair of White Bonnet clownfish (Amphirpion leucokranos, aka “White Cap”) that made a voyage from Ocean Gallery II to the ORA hatchery in Florida, nearly getting lost…
Friday Smorgasbord: Old seas, strange fish and 3D maps
It’s Friday and here is another edition of our weekly smorgasbord of weird, wacky and interesting. Starting off is the discovery of a 100-million-year-old ocean found under the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. US Geological Survey (USGS) hydrologists drilling discovered what…
Marine Aquarium Problem? Don’t Panic!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously wrote, “Into each life some rain must fall.” For marine aquarium hobbyists, that “rain” often comes in the form of a troublesome algae outbreak, the appearance of an uninvited pest, out-of-whack water parameters, sick specimens, livestock…
EcoTech ReefLink now shipping
We are in full-bore gadget mode and with the holiday shopping season upcoming the EcoTech ReefLink is now shipping and on its way to your favorite stores and retailers. If you are looking to land one of these, it will…
Neptune Systems shipping AWM for AquaIllumination LEDs
Neptune Systems has been busy bringing all the goodies they unveiled at MACNA to market and have just announced the Neptune AWM — or AquaIllumination Wireless Module — is now shipping. As we saw when we were at MACNA, the…
On location for the first ever unboxing of the Nuvo Shallow Reef aquarium
Just under two weeks ago we swung by the offices of Innovative Marine and happened to stop by just in time to check out their first shipments of production made Nuvo Shallow Reef aquariums. Now we specify “production-made” because the…
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…
