The Rocky Mountain Reef Tank gets a two-year anniversary update

[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sncfi4hgnM0[/youtube] The 1200 gallon Rocky mountain Reef Aquarium of Stephen Hurlock is a very special one for us, and a very important one for Reef Builders. I was fortunate enough to be involved in the design and construction…

Friday smörgåsbord: Sharktopus, evolution, frozen fish, old submarines and Elvis

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQGIRA5x7eQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Another installation of fun, tasty tidbits for the first Friday afternoon of October. Leading off the inning is a great clip from the folks at SyFy creating a whole new hybrid sure to make your days at…

House of Fins 53rd Anniversary SPLASH event this weekend

House of Fins in Greenwich CT is one of the oldest aquarium stores in the country and this weekend will mark the establishment’s 53rd year in the business of ornamental aquarium fish. House of Fins, or HOF, has been ramping…

The Reef Central Story

Reef Central is an online forum that has been around the aquarium hobby for quite some time.

New sea slug discovered off California coast

Sometimes the most exciting things are hiding right in front of you, just waiting for you to see. Marine biologist Jeff Goddard knows this quite well after he discovered a new species of nudibranch in a California tide pool in…

New Era Aquaculture cold-extruded food now available in America from Living Color

New Era Aquaculture is a manufacturer of high quality fish foods which has been rapidly gaining market share in the UK, Europe and abroad for the past five years. More recently New Era signed an agreement with Living Color Enterprises…

The focused approach to reef keeping

It seems as though not a day goes by here on Reef Builders when you don’t hear about some new product, animal or technique that will help change the hobby forever. New things that promise to simplify and improve our…

Looking at MACNA from a purely hobbyist point of view (where are the kids?)

Here at Reef Builders we tirelessly work our fins to the spine to stay on top of the news and to make sure our readership is the most informed about everything related to the aquarium world. Whether it’s new fish,…

MACNA 2010 Rocked!

Reefbuilderss has asked contributors to recount their MACNA 2010 experience – its my turn, so here goes! My MACNA 2010 really started when I arrived at the hotel at 11:55 pm on Thursday night. I expected to go to the…

MACNA XXII – Matt Pedersen’s Story

I hope to see my fellow Reef Builders contributors jump in and share their take on MACNA 2010 in the coming days.  Seeing the annual pilgrimage to the marine aquarium hobby’s nomadic mecca through multiple points of view may offer…