If you haven’t looked at Bart’s 600 gallon display, then you should get a look at it. He is a RB member and the whole system of course is 1300 gallons, and if that doesn’t make you sick with envy…
Potassium, the other water parameter in your reef tank
Running a low nutrient system? You might consider testing for Potassium (k). As Logan over at stony reef suggests, your potassium levels could run low. Water changes may not be enough. Be sure to check it out. Read
Algae to produce fuel in europe, plant will cost $92 million, who knew?
GreenFuel Technologies, the Cambridge, MA, alternative energy company has reached an agreement—worth up to some $92 million—to build an algae-based fuel plant in Europe, according to sources close to the firm. GreenFuel is developing algae bioreactor systems to convert carbon…
John Shedd Reed, 1917 – 2008
Mr. Reed, 90, former chairman and chief executive officer of Santa Fe Industries, died of natural causes Saturday, March 15, in his Lake Forest home. Mr. Reed served on the aquarium’s board for 47 years and as president from 1984…
H20 Ocean, could have been the best reef salt in the world
H2Ocean Pro+ is a new pro formula aquarium salt – produced by a solar evaporative process which produces a totally natural base salt where all of the main and trace elements and are in complete balance as nature intended. The…
Instant Ocean’s Skimm line of Protein Skimmers, marketing department fails again
Spectrum Brands, Inc. the company that owns Marineland and brings you Instant Ocean by the container load released a new skimmer under their Instant Ocean Brand. Say hello to the “skimm” line. (really marketing guys over there, could you not…
ATB external skimmers commith
ATB apprently has a new external model coming, using a Laguna 2400 motorblock, allowing the pump to pull 3,000lph. Click the read link for more pics.
Tank of the Month: February 2008, Reef Builders Member: Carym
In October of 2004, started with a smaller 30 gallon reef setup, still have some of the same corals and fish that I started with in that tank, but it was always a dream of mine to do a saltwater…
Study: Ocean “deserts” are expanding
A new report stated that the worlds ocean “deserts” are expanding. An ocean desert is the least biologically productive area in an ocean. This study was conducted from 1998 and 2007. The study found three major points: In the Pacific,…
Six-Legged “Hexapus” Discovered (like octoupus, sorta)
We know you have been thinking where you can aquire a hexapus for your reef aquarium. You thought about a octopus, but that is so 1990’s. Recently, “caretakers at a British aquarium recently discovered that one of its newest residents,…
