The Tropical Eden line of reef-collected aragonite substrates went “live†with its new Aragavive live aragonite sand. The Aragavive line comes in four flavors, depending on how fine or how large you like your substrate and you have to love…
Yellow Assessor Basslets (Assessor flavissimus) available again from ORA
Yellow Assessors Basslets (Assessor flavissimus) have been bred in captivity by ORA before but they’ve recently gotten productive enough to start shipping these to stores. Up until very recently Yellow assessor Basslets were only availabel as wild caught when they…
Caribsea’s Purple Up issued Patent, purple isn’t safe any longer
You’ve most likely heard of Purple Up, the product that some aquarists use when they can’t seem to get any coraline algae growing in their saltwater aquariums. Besides being a very popular product, Caribsea, the manufactuer has been touting that…
Live Bottles are reborn as Aquacultured Art by Atlantic Reef Aquaculture
Live Bottles for use in Mini Reef aquariums used to be as common as normal output fluorescents, bristle worm traps and dolomite. It was absolutely commonplace to see at least one or two live bottles in the reef displays of…
Reef Builders welcomes Christine Williams as our newest regular contributor
Reef Builders has been growing and expanding our coverage to include as much reef news, science, information and events as possible. To sustain this growth we are pleased to announce Christine Williams as the first of several big-time speaker/author contributors…
World Atlas of Marine Fauna by Rudie Kuiter and Helmut Debelius
The World Atlas of Marine Fauna is an exciting new comprehensive volume by Rudie H. Kuiter and Helmut Debelius. Those of us who have grown to love the World Atlas of Marine Fishes will have great expectations for the Marine…
VorTech MP10 pushes 20% MORE water than advertised!
Dana Riddle is one of the most important researchers in our hobby and we are proud to have our thunder stolen about reviewing the VorTech MP10 with the super review that he has published in Advanced Aquarist Online Magazine. In…
Aquarium Obsessed out of Business? Sfiligoi gets new US distribution
Aquarium Obsessed was a distributor for a lot of well known products. They were until they went out of business, or at least it appears that way. Aquarium Obsessed website is still up, but emails aren’t being responded to and…
DSPS 1200 gallon tank from thailand
What happens when you build an aquarium with these dimensions: 120″ x 48″ x 48″? You get over 1200 gallons (or 1196.88 gallons to be exact) of water to play with. Besides being one of the cleanest setups we’ve ever…
Ushio Synergy LED MR-16 lamps show potential of low voltage reef spotlighting
Ushio’s new Synergy LED MR-16 lamps could be signs of the future for Japanese-style reef spotlighting and low-voltage applications in the hobby. The LED lamps are more efficient and longer-lasting replacements for standard MR-16 (meaning multifaceted reflector bulbs 16 eighths…
