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New blenny species discovered near Curacao

A tiny but beautiful new blenny species has been discovered off the coast of Curacao in the Caribbean. Named Haptoclinus dropi after the Smithsonian Institution’s Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP) where the…

New Albert Thiel book documents nano aquariums

Reefkeeping pioneer Albert Thiel has a new book out, Nano-Reef Aquariums, documenting how to care for smaller reef aquariums. Because of their size smaller, nano aquariums have become a significant part of the hobby over the last few years. But…

Saltwater Fish

B-Box Aquarium teases with a short clip of Belonoperca pylei

The whimsical and cartoonish looking Belonoperca pylei has long been regarded as a straight up unobtainable “book fish”. In the past year or two however, we’ve seen a few being slowly drip-fed into the aquarium scene. While still out of…

Saltwater Fish

Lightning Maroon Clownfish finally coming to Blue Zoo Aquatics

Call if karma or the circle of life or whatever you will, but Lightning Maroon Clownfish are finally coming back to Blue Zoo Aquatics. We originally reported that offspring from the original specimen that was captured in Papua New Guinea three…

Coral

Even more images of sexy Dichromatic Trachyphillia

We have a few more stunning images of the dichromatic Trachyphillia Walt Smith was teasing us with yesterday. One of Smith’s employees, Cameron Bee, clarified a bit more information on the coral and then shared a few new images on…

Ratters Reef from the UK was 218 gallons of stunning coral

We absolutely love large corals, which Ratters Reef definitely had going for it. But beside the gigantic corals we also love the fact that the reef was so grown in. This is not one of those reef systems where the…

Vertex magnet cleaner Hexaplex brings style to large magnet scrubbers

Much like Vertex Aquaristik‘s other magnet accessories the Vertex Hexaplex magnet cleaner brings some serious class to something that you might not have previously thought of as visually appealing. In essence the Vertex Hexaplex is the big brother of the cleaner magnet…

LED Intelligent Lighting IT2060 the next generation of rebadged LED lights

We like chasing down leads to get to the bottom of stories here at Reef Builders, so when we saw an interesting LED fixture, we starting digging for more information and that led us to this interesting next generation Chinese…

Updates on the divine new Paracentropyge multifasciata x P. venustus hybrid

Few days ago, we shared with you the world’s newest Paracentropyge hybrid to hit the reefing scene. This natural hybrid between the two Indo-pacific Paracentropyge angels (P. venustus and P. multifasciata) is possibly the most stunning creations mother nature has…