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Coralline Clam: New cryptic giant clam species is a perfect coralline algae mimic
The Coralline Clam is a new species of Tridacna giant clam has been found living in plain sight on the shallow reefs of the Solomon Islands. The very unusual clam species was…
JNS Omega Biopellet Reactor uses vertical churning
Omega Biopellet Reactors are new devices from JNS which take the conventional biopellet fluidizer and turn it on its side. Very similarly to the Coral Shop Denistar product, the JNS Omega reactor uses a kreizel-like design of a disc on…
Reef Builders is blocked in Russia
The Soviet government has started enforcing a new law that gives it the power to block selective sites on the internet. We learned over the weekend that Reef Builders is blocked from inside Russia. Users who try to reach us…
Fascinating footage of fluorescent corals under confocal microscope will leave you mesmerized
Chances are you are spending your Easter Sunday morning contemplating why it is still snowing outside, and how you are going to find all those eggs in a half a foot of snow. What’s a better way to escape the…
Successful First Breeding of Hawaiian Endemic Flame Pipefish, Dunckerocampus baldwini
60 day post settlement Baldwini PIpefish – Copyright Jim Welsh, 2013 Proof that hobbyists can really innovate, we’re pleased to share the news from Jim Welsh, a private aquarist, of his successsful breeding and rearing of Dunckerocampus baldwini, the endemic Flame…
Kevin Kohen’s Picasso clownfish are the pinnacle of designer perculas
Imagine that we didn’t live in a world with designer clownfish, no platinums, no perculas and no snowflakes either. If we lived in that world and you happened to see this pair of Picasso percula clownfish in the offices of LiveAquaria you…
Friday Smorgasbord: Two-head sharks, squid bombs and more
The final Friday of March is here and with March Madness fully underway, we found some crazy articles to give you your weekly dose of the wacky, weird and wonderful. Sometimes nature can write better movie plots than what Hollywood can come…
MarineReefLED Quadspec V2 Spotlights breath new life into the PAR 20 bulb
The Quadspec V2 LED PAR 20 bulbs are exciting new spotlights from MarineReefLED, with a great visual appeal and pretty unique spectrums . We got our hands on the PAR20 Quadspec spotlight and the PAR20 Fiji Blue spotlight and in person…
Awesome Fungiid is either Podabacia or a special form of Lithophyllon
Podabacia is a very unique genus of disc corals which is hardly never seen in the aquarium trade, let alone in any interesting color. How are lucky are we then that we stumbled upon an amazing colony of Podabacia motuporensis, in…
Maxspect Razor clone ‘Tesla LED’ spotted in the wild
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and with this LED fixture we spotted — the Maxspect Razor definitely should be flattered. We recently heard about this similar-looking fixture from Clovers LED, an equipment wholesaler in Asia, that bears an uncanny resemblance to the Razor.…
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…
Breaking New Ground
Vibrant Corals and Fish Ushers in the First Legal CITES-Compliant Malaysian Coral Imports to the…
Tunze Launches English YouTube Channel
Known for its bulletproof pumps and German engineering, Tunze has also been big on YouTube…
