New MyReefer Wizard Helps Configure Red Sea Reef Tanks
Red Sea has a whole new wave of reef aquarium products coming to market this year, and they really want you to use them on your current or future Red Sea tanks. To help make sense of the various …
LED Breakthrough Allows Multiple Colors From a Single Diode!
Light Emitting Diodes, now commonly referred to as LEDs have revolutionized how we illuminate our world and especially our aquariums. Fifty years ago LEDs weren’t useful for much more than produ…
Semilarvatus Makes One of the Rarest Butterflyfish Hybrids
It’s been a long while since we’ve had a fun butterflyfish hybrid to share with you but what’s cool about this specimen is that it is an aquarium established fish. The parents of thi…
Tanked reality show cancelled after 7 years; House listed on the market
The tanked reality show that everyone in the aquatics industry loved to hate is finally calling it quits after 7 years. Tanked started in 2011 and the first pilot ordered 6 episodes. The show based on…
Mini Bubble King 160 is the Smallest DC Skimmer from Royal Exclusiv
Royal Exclusiv has one of the most expansive catalogs of protein skimmers in the reef aquarium hobby and today it’s getting just a little bit larger. The Mini Bubble King 160 is the newest prote…
Clipperton Angelfish is a True Micro Endemic Marine Fish
The Clipperton Angelfish is a poorly known species of large marine angelfish in the Holacanthus genus. The reason we don’t hear about or see this fish is because it only comes from Clipperton At…
Neptune Systems Trident Finally Went on Sale This Week
The Neptune Systems Trident is an ambitious new product finally released this week to great fanfare and anticipation. Neptune Systems has a history of aiming for grandiose visions of fully automated r…
This is What Healthy Quarantined & Conditioned Fish Look Like [Video]
Several weeks ago we received a truly epic shipment of fish from RVS Fishworld and Coast Tropicals. The unboxing of these awesome fish, and my live reaction at this overwhelming bounty was captur…
Rare ‘Astro Leather’ Coral Trickling Into the Reef Hobby
The Astro Leather is a very interesting group of soft corals which was only described to the genus level earlier this year. Leather corals are very common and can be super abundant in certain environm…
Montipora Nudis Found Lingering on Porites
Discovering coral eating pests and parasites is never fun and every major group of coral has something that eats them. Dealing with them can be challenging depending on the group but one guiding princ…
Cove I-250 Protein Skimmer Review: the Antidote to Average Skimmers
The Eye of Horus is a Great New Accessory for Mobile Photography
The Eye of Horus lens coral filter is a new addition to the mobile phone coral filter lense. These lenses that help remove the blue color to let other…
TMC’s new REEF Easi-Dose Plus 3 and Easi-Stir
Tropical Marine Centre has been on a roll lately (no pun intended) and have a few new products for all your dosing needs. The new Tropical Marine Cent…
The Xmas Tree Worm Aquarium, Five Months Later
The Reef Builders Studio was created to be a place of reef aquarium learning, discovery and experimentation, especially when it comes to setting up different kinds of reef aquariums. Many of us have o…
Clownfish
Audible for Fish? 10 rare or beautiful fish that would have made this gag better
In case you missed it, yesterday was April Fool’s Day and there were many corporations and tech companies sharing some serious groaners with a f…
aberrant angelfish
‘Black’ Regal Angelfish is one of the Wildest Specimens Ever
The iconic appearance of the regal angelfish is so recognizable across its wide range that it is one of the visual ambassadors for coral reefs. Since …
New Species
Propherallodus longipterus, an Adorable New Clingfish from the Philippines
Clingfish are a very unique group of marine fish who are so absent from the reef aquarium hobby that we can’t even name one by heart. That’…
Gear
Cove I-250 Protein Skimmer Review: the Antidote to Average Skimmers
Cove protein skimmers are a unique breed of acrylic aquarium products from China which stand apart from other equipment manufacturers in a number of w…
