Sustainable Aquatics releases captive bred Saddleback and Sebae Clownfish

We always are excited about learning about new species that are captive-bred and we just learned about two new species of tank-bred clownfish Sustainable Aquatics has added this week — the Brown Saddleback Clownfish (Amphiprion polymnus) and the Sebae Clownfish (Amphiprion…

Jakarta super Trachyphyllia is probably a sign of the quality to come

If you thought that the Chalice corals are coming in crazy colors, the old aquarium favorite brain coral Trachyphyllia is beginning to be imported with colors that will melt your brain. Global Reef Supply recently landed a batch of cherry LPS…

Reef Builders pick: five of our favorite concept marine aquariums

We always try to showcase special reef aquariums on a weekly basis here at Reef Builders. Many of the tanks we have highlighted received attention because of their aquascape, rare fish, or beautiful corals. Some however received attention because they…

Mini Maxi cozies up to a blue squamosa clam in light field

http://pictures.lytro.com/ReefBuilders/pictures/227113 The Blue Squamosa Clams from last week are starting to get around and man are these beauties great. Some people also love Mini Maxi pseudo-carpet anemones and we just happened to capture one cozying up to a stunning small-blue-spotted…

Zero Reef East- less is more when setting up a nano coral tank

I like to think of myself as a progressive hobbyist. Despite being in the hobby for more than three decades, I always try to push myself to keep up on the state of the art in marine aquarium practice, and…

The Aquarium Showroom is the Bay Area’s next level LFS

We get to visit more LFS than your average aquarist and with that we see a lot of duds. Occasionally, we have the pleasure of visiting fishstores with a special touch. We’ve been following the progress of the Aquarium Showroom…

Tank of the Month May 2008

Congratulations to William1 who won the tank of the month contest for May 2008. Hit the read link for more information about his beautiful tank.

How to Care for Your Reef Tank while On Vacation

There are many terms that we reefers have come to fear: RTN, Montipora eating nudibranchs, wife seeing the credit card bill, and Fedex losing the box. Unfortunately, many of us have come to fear something that we should look forward…

Rescaping the Nano Reef With New Torch Corals [Video]

The Red Sea Max Nano aquarium that we set up in one day and then untouched for a year has been one of our funnest concepts we’ve shared on video. While we thoroughly enjoyed demonstrating what is possible with the most…

Indo Pacific Corals, a New Coral ID Book by Joe Rowlett

If you’re reading this right now, chances are you love reef tanks, saltwater fish, exotic corals, and simply can’t get enough detail and information about them. If you thirst particularly for coral information, boy have we got some great news…