Protein skimmers are a piece of technology which is unique to saltwater aquariums and they’ve been employed as a tool to clean the water in our hobby for decades. There’s many different ways to combine the mixture of fine air…
Illumagic piXel paints a picture of new LED possibilities
Taiwanese aquarium lighting company Illumagic has teased their latest LED release, the piXel. At first glance, these small, round LED pucks look like those used to populate both the Blaze X and X4 fixtures but with piXel the PCBs have…
Window Shopping Some Great & Affordable wysiwyg Coral Frags
It’s been a really long time since we shared some interesting and unique corals from around the web. With more online coral vendors than ever before we only got through a few pages of google search results before we had more than…
EU wrasse imports jeopardized due to catch-all disease restrictions
Reef Builders has learned that the import of all wrasses into Europe has been restricted. Fish health authorities have confirmed that wrasses and their relatives within the family Labridae are now only allowed to be exported to the European Union…
Slide-Loc Quick Release Lever will Transform Reactor Maintenance
The Slide-Loc Quick Release Lever is a novel invention that has the ability to finally make those pesky nylon screws and keyhole flanges an endangered species. Newer and small media reactors can get away with using small screw-on and twisting…
Captive Bred Interruptus Angelfish aplenty at SDC-ERI
The interruptus angelfish is one of the most unique and interesting of all Centropyge but they are very rare in the saltwater aquarium world. Hailing from the northwest Pacific Ocean most of the few specimens collected from the wild are…
We’ve Never Seen a Birdnest like the ReefWorks Seriatopora
The unique arrangement of Seriatopora corallites is one of the first things we ever learned about corals so we’ve developed an eye for unique and unusual bird nest corals. New strains of Seriatopora are quite rare and the last real ‘innovation’…
How War Changed the Life of Ukrainians and their Pets
As the war against Ukraine has progressed our hearts have been with the people under siege and we’ve been profoundly concerned for their well being as well as their pets and aquariums. The video shared below is from Pleco Ceramics…
Red Sea ReefMat: 10 Things we Already Love About It
The Red Sea ReefMat is an ambitious new device which is making its mark in the burgeoning young product category of automatic filter rolls. First announced just a few short months ago in December the ReefMat has been one of…
The Coral Reef Aquarium Volume II now Available fro Pre-Order
Keeping reef aquariums can be a very technical hobby and while there’s a boundless amount of information shared online, it can be very challenging to parse through it all for advice that’s really relevant, and information which might be tenuous…
