It seems as though not a day goes by here on Reef Builders when you don’t hear about some new product, animal or technique that will help change the hobby forever. New things that promise to simplify and improve our…
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MACNA XXII – Matt Pedersen’s Story
I hope to see my fellow Reef Builders contributors jump in and share their take on MACNA 2010 in the coming days. Seeing the annual pilgrimage to the marine aquarium hobby’s nomadic mecca through multiple points of view may offer…
Here’s our top picks for MACNA speaker presentations, what’s yours?
So we’re on our way to MACNA in Orlando and in order to make sure we don’t miss any of the top notch speaker talks, we’ve already programmed alerts into our iPhone for when certain presentations will go down. In…
Rethinking The Local Fish Store
In this postmodern, internet-based hobby world, it seems that the venerable local fish store (“LFS”) is under constant attack. E-tailers, hobbyist’ garage based start-ups, group buys, eBay, Craigslist, and even frag swaps are but a few of the challenges facing…
Thinking “Negative”- an overlooked aquascaping aspect
If you read my blog posts and articles on aquascaping, you hear me blabber on and on about the virtues of great rockwork, avoiding the uninspired rock wall configurations, the Golden Ratio, etc. Yet for all my talk about rockwork,…
Take the testosterone out of reef keeping!
Just what is it about us reefers these days? Here we are, a quarter century after the “mini-reef” craze struck the hobby- and we’re still as amped as ever. We throw everything at our tanks to create this biggest, baddest,…
Something old, something new: Evolution within the hobby
One of the coolest things about our hobby is the amazing progression over the years in both the state of the art and the technology that we embrace. Improvements that have enabled us to do things previously thought incredibly difficult…
The Danger of “Regurgitation”
If you’ve been “around the block” a few times in this hobby, you’ll often hear fellow hobbyists dispensing words of aquatic wisdom to anyone who needs it. You know, the usual stuff, like “you need to quarantine new animal purchases”, …
Some “Light Conversation”- Lightfair 2010 and the LED Revolution
It’s no secret that the crew here at Reef Builders are huge fans of LED lighting. Seems like not a day goes by when we’re not breaking something new on this evolving technology. It’s a fact- LED technology is not…
Aquatic Self-Discovery: The art of Learning Something New
As I often do, I was chatting “fish” with Jake the other day, and the conversation inevitably turned towards our upcoming aquarium projects. If you read my blog regularly, it’s no secret that I have rekindled my love affair with…
