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Frogfish carry their spawn in the weirdest place, on their sides
If you didn’t already think that marine life had the weirdest strategies for ecological survival already, this picture of a lady frogfish carrying her eggs ought to reinforce that notion. We’ve long…
Metal halide, T5, LED, plasma…FIPEL? The new light on the block
A few years ago, we were excitedly talking about plasma lighting and discussing the impact the lawsuit against PFO would have on the hobby. Fast-forward a few years and we have LEDs making a huge impact on the hobby and plasma struggling…
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Reef Octopus Professional Open Volute is another space saving skimmer with DC pump
The Professional Open Volute (POV) from Reef Octopus is the latest protein skimmer to feature a DC pump. With a space saving design, and internal DC pump it strongly reminds us of the new semi-pipeless Skimz Monzter VSC series we…
New pseudocoris wrasse captured and pictured alive for the first time
The Pseudocoris genus contains some of the most beautiful wrasses but this little known group goes all but eclipsed by the Paracheilinus flasher and Cirrhilabrus fairy wrasses. However, with aquarists increasingly broadening their scope of rare and unusual reef wrasses, the Pseudocoris…
Build My LED goes head-to-head with T5 fluorescent lighting
We appreciate a good head-to-head competition and you know that if an LED manufacturer is going to release a video against a bank of T5 lighting, you can expect the LEDs to win. In this case upstart Build My LED…
Aquatronica Black Box in final stages of release
Aquatronica is an European company largely known for their line of high end controllers, and was probably one of the first modular aquarium controllers to enter the market back in the day. Aquatronica has been working on a new and…
Porites fontanesii is a new coral species from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden
There’s a new species of small polyp stony coral out of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden called Porites fontanesii. The new Porites was just bestowed with the formal description of its unusual colony shape and growth form. Unlike truly…
Hybrid cleaner goby (Elacatinus oceanops x E. figaro) available again from ORA
The hybrid cleaner goby is a one of a kind aquarium fish which doesn’t occur in nature (as far as we know) Resulting from the cross between a male blue neon cleaner goby Elacatinus oceanops and a female Brazilian endemic Yellowlline goby, Elacatinus…
3 Reasons why the Aquatics industry is booming
The Aquatics industry is growing. That’s according to help wanted ads from aquatics companies across the United States and a few sources we have spoken with. Consider these three examples.
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…
