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‘Reef in the Sky’ takes Zeovit’s DTOQ honors for reef aquarium excellence inside and out
Reef in the Sky is a wonderful SPS reef aquarium built by Zeovit forum user ‘V1…rotate’ which was just nominated by his low-nutrient-system-loving peers as the latest Dream Tank of the Quarter.…
Trimma matsunoi, T. fasciatum and Gobiodon winterbottomi join a long list of cool new nano gobies
The new description of Trimma fasciatum, Trimma matsunoi and Gobiodon winterbottomi show that although the summer doldrums may be in full swing for the marine aquarium hobby, the ichthyologists are still busy classifying reef fishes.Especially with the nano reef gobies like Eviota and Trimma, these tiny substrate…
Real Oceanic Eggs (R.O.E.) from Reef Nutrition goes live
Real Oceanic Eggs (R.O.E) is a new food for marine aquariums made from real oceanic eggs of fish. Freshwater and marine aquarists have been using real oceanic eggs from various sources for eons but Reef Nutrition’s R.O.E. is the first time…
AI Director control platform and myAI teased and promised for MACNA 2012
AI Director is a new software product from AquaIllumination which appears to be apps for iPhone, iPad & Android for programming AquaIllumination LED lights. Through these tablet and smartphone apps as well as an online component called “myAI”, AquaIllumination is…
New wireless AI Controller for Sol, Nano and Vega is a completely different animal
With the pre-orders for AI Vega going live and its release looking imminent, you didn’t think that Aqua Illumination would let it loose without a revamped controller didja? The new 2012 AI controller is all kinds of wireless with a…
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 one near term solution may actually end up benefiting us…
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…
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…
