Delectable colony of red Leptoseris sitting pretty at Unique Corals

You’ve seen orange Leptoseris, you’ve probably seen green Leptoseris, and there’s no way you’ve missed the green-eyed orange Jack-O-Lantern Leptoseris. However this delectable colony of RED Leptoseris is in a league of its own, with the most graceful colony shape and a perfect arc of light…

ReefStock 2015 is right around the corner in Denver, Colorado

It’s really crazy to think that when ReefStock first took place in 2008, there never was a long term plan to make it an annual tradition. But here we are seven years later and seven shows under our belts that…

Reef Builders x Cairns Marine: A visit to the facility

If you’ve been following our recent posts and our Facebook updates judiciously, you’d know that we had the greatest pleasure of visiting Cairns Marine and their wonderful team just a few weeks back. Apart from touring the facility and seeing how…

Reef Builders Editor’s Choice: 10 best new products of 2014

Every year we have been doing this reef aquarium blogging gig, we’ve looked out for the best and most innovative new products to be announced around the world. Hundreds of new aquarium products are introduced every year and the competition for…

Nano Doser 1 is a radical new take on dosing micro volumes to reef tanks

The Nano Doser 1 is a very different kind of dosing device from Saltwater Conversions, a company which was the first, and still the only real source in North America for the famous Japanese Mame products. It took us a…

Zeovit Automatic Elements may actually reduce the cost of dosing Iron, Potassium & more

Zeovit Automatic Elements are an innovative new method to dose a handful of trace elements to our reef tanks on a long term basis. For major elements like Calcium, Carbonates and Magnesium it is critical to keep elevated levels in the…

Photos of Cirrhilabrus cenderawasih and Paracheilinus walton give us a glimpse into the endemic life of West Papua

In a world abundant with coral reefs and geographical landscapes, no place captivates me quite like the amazing and wonderful West Papua. Isolated and disjunct from just about everywhere, the local flora and fauna both terrestrial and aquatic have evolved in…

The polyps of the weeping willow leather coral have gotten even longer

Earlier this year we shared with you a video of the Weeping Willow leather coral, a particular Sarcophyton species of soft coral that has been growing in aquaria since the nineties. At the beginning of the summer we began nourishing the aquarium water…

The new InterZoo products we expect to see at MACNA

Writing about the release of the Radion Mounting System got us to thinking about all the new products we reported on at InterZoo which American reefers will see for the first time at MACNA. While it may be four months…

The best MACNA ever is less than four weeks away

The 2014 MACNA committee, of which we are part, has been working its tail off for the better part of two years to put on the Mile High MACNA in Denver Colorado. In that time we have been extremely diligent in organizing…