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Wonder material graphene could be in your future reverse osmosis unit

You may have heard of graphene before as the material that is supposed to make everything better in the near future. Most of the promises are still a long way off, but…

Friday Smorgasbord: Tracy Morgan, Saturn’s moon hides an ocean, shark diversity, and oceans vs. Kardashians

Not too often we get to get some celebrity news on Reef Builders but with the big news with the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes split taking up the news today, we figured we’d shift the focus to someone cooler. We lead…

Red Sea Reef Spec whittles down reef aquarium T5 lamps to three colors

Reef Spec by Red Sea is a trio of T5 fluorescent lamps for marine and reef aquarium which has figured out that three good color combinations is almost everything to make reef fish and corals look slammin’. Red Sea will soon…

Pseudanthias micah, candy striper clingfish and other new species pictured

Reef Fishes of the East Indies brought with it 25 new species of previously unknown reef fish, several of which have had their mugshots released by Conservation International. Anthias, clingfish, butterflyfish, gobies and a cornucopia of other new piscine reef…

Vertex Aquaristik announces pricing and release date for two models of the Libra doser

The Vertex Libra doser has been teased for over a year, first shown off at MACNA last fall and now Vertex is ready to anoint their fancy doser with a release date and pricing. Vertex Aquaristik will begin shipping the Libra…

Sea Dwelling Creatures brings rare Bodianus paraleucosticticus to America

The five stripe hogfish, Bodianus paraleucosticticus, is an amazing and rare hogfish which very rarely graces American soil. Recently, Cairns Marine out of Australia has been making more regular excursions to the Coral Sea to get exotic reef fish such as the five-striped…

Eheim powerCleaner finally coming to market

It was just over two years ago when we picked up on the story about the Eheim powerCleaner — a motorized, vibrating power cleaner for brushing that tough algae off your aquarium — and now it looks like it is…

Giant fish sculpture rising from beach made from recycled plastic bottles

Last week’s Rio+20 event for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development an enormous beach installation was created uses discarded plastic bottles to remind people to reduce the amount of plastic bottles they use and to properly dispose of them when done.…

TMC V2 Bio React 500 the latest biopellet reactor to hit the market

The new TMC V2Bio React 500 Pellet Reactor is the latest biopellet reactor to hit the market. The new V2Bio React 500 features a “patented” eductor the company highlights providing more contact between the pellets and water, leading to more efficient fluidization…