Home
Tour of a PACKED Reef Tank Run by Konstantinos Michalopoulos in NORWAY
A recent trip to Norway presented the opportunity to visit Konstantinos Michalopoulos and enjoy his jam packed Red Sea Reefer 250, which is the feature of today’s video. Such exceptional displays are…
Gorgeous NORWEGIAN Reef by Tomas Kaumer
We recently visited Norway and had the opportunity to visit one of the most enthusiastic reef aquarists in the country, Tomas Kaumer. It was a bit surprising to enter an unassuming home tucked in the Norwegian countryside to find an…
Nothing can Stop Extended Reach Coral Cutters
Having overgrown corals is a good problem to have but it’s also a rare condition in parts of the hobby that are mostly focused on collecting tiny fraglets. For the rest of us who do let our corals grow out, and…
Sera X-Feeder & XS-Feeder Finally Arrive in America
The Sera X-Feeder and XS-Feeder are two automatic fish food dispensers that Sera introduced last year but which are finally landing on American shores this month. While the slight difference in the name might lead you to believe that these…
Rhodactis bryoides: The shroom that thought it was an anemone!
Thanks to our friend and colleague Joe Rowlett’s book Indo-Pacific Corals new insights were provided on many different coral families. One new development I found particularly interesting concerns the taxonomy of corallimoprh since not much new work has been done…
Koi Moorish Idol is an art house aberration
A one-of-a-kind Moorish Idol has been made available on the website Marine Collectors. Named a Koi Moorish Idol, this eye-catching example of Zanclus cornutus displays four colors instead of the usual three, with far more orange and far less black…
Hawaiian corals choose algae symbionts to suit depth and temperature
A study published in Royal Society Open Science has found that Montipora capitata populates with algal symbionts based on environmental factors. Scientists from the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology and the Chaminade University of Honolulu already knew that the reef-building…
The Next Wave 85 Peninsula gets previewed at Vivarium
Tropical Marine Centre showed off a new AIO nano aquarium at the Vivarium show in Holland, last week. A bigger brother to The Next Wave 60 All-In-One tank, the new 85-liter model stretches into Peninsula dimensions at 38x56x40cm, allowing extra…
The Tailless fish of Jave Marine
As we scrolled our social media news feeds this week we couldn’t help but notice the penchant for tailless saltwater fish shown by Indonesian livestock collector CV Java Marine Group. We have documented many tailless fish over the years and…
Aperture Pet & Life becomes exclusive Nyos distributor for US and Canada
Well-known German product brand Nyos is to be exclusively distributed in North America by Aperture Pet & Life. Nyos has had a long relationship with EcoTech Marine, with EcoTech even producing YouTube videos on their Quantum skimmers. Hence, it comes…
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…
Eviota bacata is a New Species of dwarfgoby from New Caledonia
A new species of Eviota goby has been described from Grand Terra, New Caledonia, taking…
Signature Frags’ Split Personality Spliced Acro May Have Been Born Out of Stress!
Reef Builders is no stranger to spliced Acropora, but this one came out of British…
Reef Builders Raj Works on 10,000 Gallon Mega Tank Build
Raj has never really flexed his skill set to the Reef Builders audience before. He…
