Your Corals aren’t special (and That’s a Good Thing)

“Collectible coral, for the purposes of reef keeping, are corals worth talking about and observing.” This helpful and profoundly simple definition isn’t from Jake Adams, but from you, the reader. Many have tried to follow it, and have certainly found…

150-gallon Mixed Reef Tank Video

For this video, Remy and Salem dropped by Remy’s fellow St Louis reefer Amer’s house to check out his 150-gallon mixed reef tank. The roughly square Innovative Marine EXT contains a variety of corals from Bounce mushrooms to Torches and…

Continuing A Reef Show Tradition With Chris Meckley

Chris Meckley, the owner of ACI Aquaculture, and I have different levels of experience in the reefkeeping hobby. Therefore, it’s fair to say that his preferences for corals may differ from mine. However, I always enjoy the opportunity to compare…

10 Gallon Nano Reef Tank Makeover

If you’ve ever kept multiple systems at once, you know that sometimes we all have those one tanks – the ones you don’t have time for. You tell yourself you’ll find time, but then you don’t – this repeats for…

The Importance of Coral Nutrition

As we have noted in previous articles most aspects of the hobby have some controversy associated with them. Needless to say, coral nutrition is one of them. For many years the general consensus was that all corals needed to thrive…

Which Corals to Add to a New Tank

There are many fun aspects to setting up a new tank, from planning and getting the equipment and then on to aquascaping the tank. But to me, the most fun aspect is selecting and adding the corals. This is when the…

What kind of Saltwater Tank do you want?

Up until this point just about everything that has been done in preparation of setting up a new tank is pretty much the same. A tank, stand, skimmer, lights, etc are all going to be used regardless of what you…

It’s Always Something!

There are few universal things in this hobby, as every tank is different and how every tank is managed is different as well.  But there are a few such as the need for being patient, and there being no benefit…

Top 10 Affordable and Unique Corals

Last week we were talking with Reef Builders host Remy about corals we recommend to people, and of course, the obvious beginner corals come up like Toadstools, Green Star Polyp, and Pulsing Xenia. But with 100+ genera of Indo-Pacific hard…

Remy and Reef Builders visit Aquashella!

Our resident Reef Builders video and podcast presenter Remy went to Aquashella last weekend, bumped into a few famous reefers, got tips on the rarest and most expensive corals there, and did a little watch shopping on the way.   First,…