Reef tank maintenance tips – helping you succeed with Acropora

We’ve been having fun this week visiting troubled reef tanks and troubled reefers and trying to help them with their ongoing problems. Talking to people online, by phone, or even face to face in your LFS is one thing, but…

PKO is a bentonite-based phosphate remover by Easy Reefs

Easy Reefs Phosphate K.O is a powdered clay material aimed at removing phosphate from aquariums. We spotted it at Interzoo in May and although there are lots of ways to remove phosphate, this is the first product we’ve seen in…

Alexloga & Co Skimmer 300X Review: Impressive Performance through Creative Design

The Alexloga A&C skimmers are a very interesting line of foam fractionators from Ukraine that are engineered to have a very small footprint but are also quite short compared to modern protein skimmer models. This ultra compact size is achieved…

Abyzz Flow Cannon AFC 150 Review: Good for 20 Feet of Flow

The Abyzz Flow Cannon AFC 150 is a water mover that has more in common with a trolling motor than an aquarium water pump but the AFC 150 is so powerful you could easily move a small boat with it.…

Our Acropora Dominated Reef Tank Has Begun

The company mission of Reef Builders is all in the name – we like to build reef aquariums and will go to every length possible to learn and discover the best methods and the most progressive equipment to make the…

Linea made a Stand with a Slide Out Sump!

Of all the components of reef aquarium systems the stand is the most easily overlooked and aside from using new materials like steel or aluminum, there’s rarely much innovation getting applied to aquarium stands. Thankfully this stagnation is starting to…

Pteragogus turdus, a New Species of Sneaky Wrasse

Pteragogus turdus is a new species of sneaky wrasse discovered from the Indian Ocean of Western Australia and the West Pacific Ocean which adds the eleventh species to this easily overlooked genus of reef fish. Unlike most other species of labrids…

Veteran Coral Farmer Kicks off Coral Restoration Project in Bali

Vincent Chalias is a pioneer of coral farming and for several years now he’s been using this experience to restore coral reefs around Bali Indonesia. With the support of well known surfer brands and some of their pro-surfers, Ocean Gardener…

Premium Aquatics Website Gets a Fresh New Facelift

Premium Aquatics is one of the oldest online vendors of aquarium goods specializing in reef and saltwater aquarium supplies since 1996. Today the venerable company refreshed its entire look, alongside a new company logo Premium Aquatics completely overhauled their familiar…

Aquamarine Aquaristic is an Enviable Australian LFS

With ReefStock Australia just a couple months away our mind is daydreaming about the hyperactive reef aquarium scene in the land down under and especially the many reef aquarium stores to be found there. We wished we could have traveled to…