Five New Products Shaping The Future Of Reef Tanks Part 1: KH Monitors
Technology is a beast that marches ever forward, and sometimes it seems like it progresses in fits and starts. Nowhere is that pattern more clear than right now in the reef aquarium hobby where a hand…
Proaquatix Captive Bred Scrawled Cowfish
There’s no denying that marine cowfishes are among some of the most alien and bizarre looking reef fish that ever make it to our aquariums. With their weird hovering motion, box like body and lo…
This Angelfish Isn’t Real (But It Does Exist!)
The blueline and conspicuous angelfish are two of our favorite Chaetodontoplus species and now we might get to see what these two fish will look like in one fish. At MACNA 2017 Poma Labs mad…
Mistakes Even Experienced Hobbyists Make
I would love to say that I never make mistakes. But as anyone who knows me knows, I do make them, and sadly I make them way too often, especially in regards to this hobby and how long I have been doin…
Reef Builders Travelogue, Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi Indonesia
Reef Builders Destination Lembeh The Lembeh Strait is the final stop in our eleven day trip around northern Sulawesi. Lembeh is a holy grail amongst scuba divers and is home to the highest concen…
Some People Just LOVE Tailless Pygmy Angelfish
There is something so cute and even a little bit endearing about a saltwater reef fish which has an obvious physical deformity, but acts just like a normal fish. We’ve all seen them, the one-eye…
Get Your Salinity On Point With Brightwell Calibration Standard
For a saltwater tank, salinity is quite literally the most important measurement we can make, yet the entire hobby basically treats salinity as an afterthought. Since a proper salinity measurement can…
DIY Spotlight: This DIY bristleworm trap is simple and effective
The sign of a good DIY project isn’t always in its beauty and the true test is if it actually works. This video of a DIY bristleworm trap by YouTuber Wayne’s Reef is one of those projects …
ATLEDTiS Pro I Is One Of The Sexiest New Lights Of 2017
ATLEDTiS is a company that has presented the aquarium hobby with some unique lights before, but their new Pro I fixtures is a real standout unit. Of course its solid metal slab construction is a real …
Aquarium Fish Collecting HALTED By Courts In Hawaii!!
Here we go again! The ink of Governor Ige’s veto of the ban on aquarium fish collection has hardly had time to dry and we’ve got yet another road block thrown in the way of sustainable har…
Awesome Fish Spotlight: Enneanectes quadra
By Colby Johnson While not commonly seen in the aquarium trade, the Triplefin blennies of the genera Enneanectes are gorgeous little gems that have captured our imagination with the recent description…
Young Purple Chromis albomaculata Are Deepwater Darlings
When fish collectors venture into new regions and show us fish that we’ve never seen before, it’s easy to get excited at the potential of some of these specimens being new species. Alas, i…
Mistakes Newbies Make
Literally every person I know laments over the mistakes they made in the past. Many of us fondly recall our early years in the hobby, and we also all …
Chaetodon argentatus Butterflyfish Hybrid Spotted in Japan
So many times when we see aberrant or hybrid reef fish it’s in the setting of an aquarium livestock dealer. So it’s always a nice surprise…
Five New Products Shaping The Future Of Reef Tanks Part 3 : Smart Dosing Pumps
While we may not have been able to foresee the advent of Alkalinity Machines and Roll Filters, the need for dosing in our aquariums has been around fo…
Ralph’s Reef Tank Is A Classically Perfect Mini Reef
When we first saw Ralph’s reef tank, we were immediately transported to a time when the aesthetic of saltwater aquariums was essentially to recr…
Eheim CompactON Pumps Are GoingON A Ten Year Old Design
Eheim is a company that was once synonymous with quality and durability, with many of their Classic water pumps still in use decades into their deploy…
Can’t Say I’ve Ever Seen A Cyclo Like This One!
I like to think I’ve seen my fair share of disc and fungiid corals, I was alone in my appreciation of Lithophyllon in the early 2000s and I…
Reef Builders Destinations Tela Honduras, May 28th – June 3rd 2018
We’re excited to announce our second Reef Builders Destination trip. This time we are heading to Tela Honduras where earlier this year we fo…
Five New Products Shaping The Future Of Reef Tanks Part 2 : Filter Rolls
The reef aquarium hobby sure is moving very fast in a lot of new and interesting directions. Yesterday we discussed the advancement of automatic aquar…
Australian researcher develops ‘IVF for coral’ to help regrow reefs at scale
One thing we know, the way corals reproduce are pretty inefficient as the broadcast spawning only results in a small portion of viable larvae actually…
Custom Bashsea Twister Skimmer is one souped up foam fractitioner
There is something about the way Bashsea approaches equipment and its not subtlety. Case in point, this customer Bashsea Twister Skimmer designed for …
Unboxing Frags Rescued From The Path Of Hurricane Irma
Last week it seemed like a hurricane of biblical proportions was going to descend on Florida and ravage everyone, everything, and every aquarium in si…
Aquatop Recife all-in-one marine aquariums good but not great
Aquatop Recife is the company’s first foray into the all-in-one aquarium designed for just the marine or reef system in mind, but our first impr…
Adorable Video Perfectly Illustrates The Life Of A Coral
We came across this adorable video from Honolulu Civil Beat Inc which perfectly illustrated the life of a coral. While it may be second natu…
Five New Products Shaping The Future Of Reef Tanks Part 1: KH Monitors
Technology is a beast that marches ever forward, and sometimes it seems like it progresses in fits and starts. Nowhere is that pattern more clear than…
Proaquatix Captive Bred Scrawled Cowfish
There’s no denying that marine cowfishes are among some of the most alien and bizarre looking reef fish that ever make it to our aquariums. With…
This Angelfish Isn’t Real (But It Does Exist!)
The blueline and conspicuous angelfish are two of our favorite Chaetodontoplus species and now we might get to see what these two fish will …
Mistakes Even Experienced Hobbyists Make
I would love to say that I never make mistakes. But as anyone who knows me knows, I do make them, and sadly I make them way too often, especially in r…
Blue Skeleton Majestic Angelfish Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen!
Every now and then a very special reef fish that we’ll never forget pops up on our rare fish radar, and the ‘Blue Skeleton’ Majestic Angelfish is such an example. This sensational sp…
Sea Dwelling’s Yellowfin Angelfish Looks Like He’s Been In A Few Brawls
This Black & Blue angelfish may not win any beauty contests among aberrant angelfish, but it is the first time we’ve seen this species don this kind of garb. Of the many different species of…
You’ve Never Seen A Speckled Flame Angelfish Like This Before!
Boy, even after years of writing about all the rare, unusual, hybrid and aberrant reef fish, the natural reef always has something new and special that we’ve never seen before. This speckled fla…
Sanjay’s 500 Gallon Mega Reef Tank Video
In the American reef aquarium scene, the name Sanjay Joshi is synonymous with reefing knowledge, experience, and especially brightly lit reef tanks. Also known as ‘Photon Man’ to his inner…
Ralph’s Reef Tank Is A Classically Perfect Mini Reef
When we first saw Ralph’s reef tank, we were immediately transported to a time when the aesthetic of saltwater aquariums was essentially to recreate a miniature reef. His glass box perfectly enc…
Maintaining A Super Easy Nano Reef Tank (Video)
The first thing most non-aquarist think when you tell them you have a saltwater aquarium is that it must take so much time, be very expensive, and very hard to maintain. That may have been true way ba…