Tela’s Newest Dive Site To our delight, over the weekend we got to explore two brand new spots in Tela. It all started Friday when we began planning our dives. Armed with a map and a few exploratory GPS points, we…
Love Coral? Tela Honduras Should Be On Your Bucket List
Dive Tela Honduras For the past two weeks, we’ve had the sincere pleasure of diving with the team from the Tela Marine Research Center, with another three weeks still to come! Tela is a coastal town on the mainland of…
Dial In Your Protein Skimmer With An Airflow Meter!
As many things as we love to measure in our reef tanks, it’s mind boggling to me that we don’t regular measure airflow on our skimmers. It was about a decade ago that skimmers started coming with an air silencer…
Awesome Fish Spotlight: Sargassum Frogfish
Sargassum Frogfish By: Quentin Caussin Sometimes a fish comes along that just makes you stop and stare for hours on end. The Sargassum Frogfish (Histrio histrio) definitely falls into that category. We were lucky to spent time with a pair…
The Aquarium Hobby Is Under Attack in Hawaii!!
The aquarium hobby seems like such a serene, benign past time yet there is a group of people who are vehemently opposed to our very existence. Once again the stakes have reached a critical level in the battleground of Hawaii…
It’s Always Something When You Have a Reef Tank
Recently while watching an old Saturday Night Live show with my daughter, Gilda Radner as Roseanna Rosanadanna responded as she always did to Jane Curtin that “It’s always something, if it’s not one thing it’s another. Within seconds of this…
Roatan Dive Site Profile – Hole In The Wall
Hole In The Wall This dive is a fan favorite in Roatan that has advanced divers coming back year after year requesting this site by name. The dive starts at the top of the wall near 30 feet (9m) as…
Three Of The RAREST Zebrasoma Videos: White, Gem and Tricolor Tangs!
With nearly three hundred videos on a myriad of topics, Reef Builders has one of the oldest aquariums channels on YouTube. In that time we’ve featured countless beautiful, rare and exotic animals, and today we want to revisit three of our…
Friday Smorgasbord: Ocean cleanup, wild wildlife and more
We knocked the dust off old Friday Smorgasbord and have rolled out a fresh edition featuring some interesting videos we’ve stumbled across this past week or so. In today’s installment we look at how we could tackle the plastic pollution…
This Giant Orbicella faveolata Was Here Before Columbus
Orbicella faveolata The coral reef in Tela Honduras is dominated by never ending ridges of thin Agaricia coral, and to eke out a living, any competing species have to adopt a strength in numbers approach for survival. A lone colony of Orbicella…
