UK’s NT Labs joins the probiotic fish food trend

UK-based NT Labs is joining in on the list of probiotic fish food companies with the introduction NT Labs Tropical Fish Food-Probitoic. In this case, the NT Labs Tropical-Fish Food is designed to be highly digestible to decrease waste in the…

Cobalt Aquatics brings probiotic fish food to the mainstream

Probiotic fish food is something that we and our peers have dreamed about since the late nineties. Cobalt Aquatics has dabbled in probiotic fish food before but now they are going all in with probiotics in an expansive line of…

Cobalt Aquatics new Color Flakes premium fish food with probiotics

Cobalt Aquatics, a new brand for the aquatics industry has just announced a new food called Color Flakes. This dried flake food is perfect for all sorts of fish and has several unique features. Cobalt Aquatics has raised the bar,…

BioAQUA Marine by Biota Style is a japanese aquarium probiotic made from tofu

BioAQUA is a new marine aquarium probiotic made the Japanese company Biota Style . BioAQUA Marine is very unique among aquarium products because it is made from Okara (Soy Pulp) which in Japan is widely regarded as a healthy food…

Is Ammonia Dosing a Possible New Way to Provide Coral Nutrition? 

Understanding Coral Diseases as well the nutritional needs of corals has been one of the shortcomings of science and the hobby since Jacques Cousteau introduced us to the coral reefs in the 1960s. We have made extensive progress in improving…

Remy’s Red Sea Update, Weeping Willow Breakdown, Salem’s LPS Tier list, and more! 

This Week in Reefing – February 18th, 2024 We’re less than a week away from Reefstock Denver and everyone on the Reef Builders team is excited to see you! If haven’t purchased your tickets yet, make sure to do so…

Understanding the Coral Biome and Microbiome

As our understanding of corals and coral reefs has increased over the past few decades it has become increasingly clear that a coral reef and even each individual coral is far more diverse than we ever would have expected. Having…

The Jekyll & Hyde Chemistry of Phaeobacter gallaeciensis Bacteria

During the Fall of 2016, I was an undergraduate studying aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island. Like other aquaculture students, I was given an opportunity to work in one of the department labs as an assistant. It so happened,…

FAQs on Phytoplankton

We continue our deep dive into Phytoplankton with our resident phycologist, Taras Pleskun. Should I feed phyto as well as amino acids? As with all things, it depends on the general goals of the aquarium. Assuming the goal is to…

Could Purple Non-Sulfur Bacteria Change Reefing?

The future of the reef aquarium industry is microbial. Microbes hold many of the nuanced secrets behind the long-term health and reproduction of corals, reef fish, and invertebrates. All of these creatures are a sum of their associated microbiomes and…