Elos opening 5 new Aqua Studios in 2012—France, Switzerland, Singapore and New York confirmed

Elos, the high end aquarium manufacturer based out of Italy is set to expand their Aqua Studios. These Aqua Studios are usually very impressive filled with Elos products including equipment, aquariums and additives. Of course Reef Builders has been to…

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Innovative company uses CO2 to create carbonate cement

Using coral as inspiration, researchers have taken an idea and have turned it into a company looking to reduce carbon dioxide levels and reduce the reliance on CO2-laden Portland cement in the construction industry. Stanford scientist Brent Constanz turned his…

Maxspect Mazarra P, the Full Review

I recently shared the unboxing of Maxspect’s latest LED offering, the Mazarra P series. Well here’s the review. I’ve recently replaced the metal halide/T5 fixture over my 180 -gallon with the Mazarra modules. The minimum number of modules for a…

Floor Leak Detector for GHL Profilux now able to tell you about your leaky tank

The new GHL Profilux Floor Leak Detector is another gadget to help avoid a discouraging and damaging saltwater overflow and give you a heads up before a full-blown aquarium catastrophe occurs. Sure there are water leak alarms and sensors that work…

ATM confuses aquarium additives for merchandise

ATM additives and aquarium products have been hinted at almost since the beginning of the TV series “Tanked“. A press release confirms that ATM is confusing aquarium products for merchandise stating that “first wave of the ATM product line is…

Deepwater Acropora elegans has potential for killer color

Less than a month ago we picked up a small colony of Acropora elegans from LiveAquaria which looked more like wooden branches of Acropora than a colorful coral someone would want to keep in their tank. ‘Deepwater Acros’ are notoriously difficult to…

Using water droplets as an LED lens and diffuser

We recently set up a new gyre flow frag tank, a 33 Long aquarium which is 48 inches long and lit by an assortment of lights including a NanoBox Reef LED. Since it’s winter and really dry in Colorado a…

Lagoon shows off a unique four step photograph of a transforming Tosanoides flavofasciatus

Lagoon of Japan recently scored with a female T. flavofasciatus that came singly without a male partner. We wrote about this female not very far back, but at that time, we had no idea that Lagoon from Japan was putting together a…

Watching light, at the speed of light

For his inaugural post Clive Bentley brings us a glimmer of the future with an extremely forward-looking post about a new breakthrough in light recording that could revolutionize how we see the physical and biological world in the future.  [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtsXgODHMWk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] While this…