Diving along the Great Barrier Reef, under the guidance from master coral collector, Nic Dos Santos from Ultra Coral Australia, we had the opportunity to see a lot of very nice corals. On one of these dive, at an offshore…
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Mitras LX 7204 is a Smaller 4-cluster LED Light from GHL
The Mitras LX 7204 is anew smaller LED light fixture from GHL but don’t go calling it a nano reef light. The 4-cluster LX 7204 packs all the great same functionality of the 6-cluster LX 7206 with multi-channel control, active…
Understanding the Ideal Australian Coral Habitat
Having learnt my Acros while living in Indonesia, I’ve grown up as an inshore reef stony coral freak because offshore reefs conditions are almost impossible to find in Indonesia. Even though we can find some of the species there, they…
WATCH: The Flagship Peninsula Tank
Well, here we have it folks, the tank we’ve all been waiting for! The Reef Builders flagship aquarium is a Waterbox 6ft crystal peninsula tank and will be filled exclusively with gear and corals from our YouTube channel sponsors. This…
Saltwater Aquariums: Strategies To Keep Your Aquarium Clean and Healthy
Saltwater aquariums aren’t just a home project; they’re living, breathing ecosystems that require more care than simply filling a tank with some water, adding a few plastic trees, and letting your salt water fish inhabit this new, alien landscape. Saltwater…
The Price of Being Popular, Thresher Shark Diving Malapascua
Thresher Shark Diving Malapascua Last month we hopped on a flight from Bali over to the Philippines for thresher shark diving Malapascua island. This tiny island off the northern coast of Cebu is home to one of the most elusive…
Cove’s New Calcium Reactor
Cove is best known as the premium brand of protein skimmers from China using the fabled AquaBee needle wheel pumps. But Cove makes a whole lot more than just skimmers, and they’ve just recently introduced their second generation calcium reactor. …
Montipora: A Practical Guide to the Variety of Forms Part 1
If there is a group of coral, where we find ourselves struggling to properly identify to the species level, that’s Montipora! Montipora are probably the most popular coral right after Acropora, it’s a fast growing, very colorful group of SPS…
Alveopora are NOT a Flowerpot Coral After All!
Following our series of articles on changes in coral classification after a massive genetic analysis, there is one more coral that got moved in quite a surprising way – Alveopora. Alveopora used to be the flowerpot coral with 12 fat tentacle,…
Deepwater Debelius Angelfish Collected in 50 Feet in Madagascar!
The Debelius angelfish is one of the rarest and most elusive angelfish species because it has only been known from very deep waters of the isolated island of Mauritius. Over the weekend we got some earth-shattering news about this species…
