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Sicce Syncra Silent 4 & 5 are quiet enough to be approved for living room use
When Sicce approached us about reviewing their new and improved Sicce Syncra 4&5 water pumps we were a little bit hesitant; we already have nearly all of our sumped aquariums equipped with…
Find your inner peace with Wave Zen aquarium
We appreciate unique aquariums and the Amtra Wave Zen Artist is an interesting aquarium that combines a Zen garden an smal aquarium. The combination aquarium features a rimless cube aquarium resting in a lacquered tray to help bring peace, relaxation and serenity…
Royal Exclusiv now selling pumps and sumps direct on its slick new website
In a new development which is sure to excite the reef aquarium gearheads, Royal Exclusiv has just given its dusty old geocities-era website a complete makeover with more than a superficial outcome. On the new RoyalExclusiv.net website you’ll find a modern web…
Vertex V-Colla Viola epoxy wants to secure your frags
The new Vertex Aquaristik V-Colla Viola reef-safe epoxy is a new two-part epoxy designed to be reef safe and help keep cloudiness out of the system. Developed in Germany in conjunction with GlueTec, the epoxy not only will not cloud…
Vincent Chalias, Bali Coral Farmer extraordinaire, will be a speaker at MACNA 2013
You may not know Vincent Chalias directly but if you’ve been an active coral reef keeper in the last decade, chances are you’ve handled some of his corals and may have some in your tank right now. For fifteen years…
Tomiyamichthys smithi is the largest showy goby you’ve never even heard of
Tomiyamichthys smithi is just one of many different species of larger shrimp gobies from this little known genus. Although not as colorful as the shrimp associated gobies in the genus Cryptocentrus, the Monster Shrimpgoby genus Tomiyamichthys includes many different fish with complicated…
Hands on review of the Sea Side Aquatics ES5 Protein Skimmer
Sea side Aquatics has been bringing in the popular Bubble Magus line of skimmers for a while now. The one thing about the Bubble Magus series that could use improvement was the skimmer pump. Some folks were having issues with…
Reef Builders Pick: Five additional amazing nano reefs
Last week we covered five of our favorite nano reefs, but since some worthy aquariums didn’t make it to the list here is a follow up post with an additional five nano aquariums. Equally amazing, these nano reefs are very…
Jawbreaker mushroom anemone is the most incredible captive strain of Corallimorph
The Jawbreaker mushroom anemone is a corallimorph that has persisted as a desirable aquarium species in the American reef scene and is still highly sought after by collectors of brightly colored corals. If someone had told us 15 years ago that…
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…
