Reef Tank Basics: What you need to know before you start

Brand new to the reef aquarium hobby? Well don’t fear as you’re in safe hands here at Reef Builders, and it’s the best hobby in the world. Let’s start with some of your frequently asked questions on the absolute basics…

Tour of a PACKED Reef Tank Run by Konstantinos Michalopoulos in NORWAY

A recent trip to Norway presented the opportunity to visit Konstantinos Michalopoulos and enjoy his jam packed Red Sea Reefer 250, which is the feature of today’s video. Such exceptional displays are a bit of a rarity in Norway, and…

The Flagship Reef Tank Thrives on Aquarium Fundamentals

The Flagship reef tank is an aquarium display we’ve been working with at the Reef Builders Studio for a little over three years and lately this tank has really been turning up. Being a six foot long peninsula style aquarium…

This Reef Tank by Kon is Practically Flawless [Video]

With such a big part of the reef aquarium hobby having become totally fixated on simply collecting coral frags instead of growing them into big beautiful colonies, it’s become quite challenging to discover reef tanks that really look like a…

Waikiki’s Iconic Giant Clam Gone to Reef Tank in the Sky

It was ten years ago that we had the pleasure of celebrating the 30th anniversary of a world famous mollusk, the Waikiki Aquarium’s very large and very old Tridacna gigas giant clam. Alas, here we are a decade later and while…

Reef tank maintenance tips – helping you succeed with Acropora

We’ve been having fun this week visiting troubled reef tanks and troubled reefers and trying to help them with their ongoing problems. Talking to people online, by phone, or even face to face in your LFS is one thing, but…

Our Acropora Dominated Reef Tank Has Begun

The company mission of Reef Builders is all in the name – we like to build reef aquariums and will go to every length possible to learn and discover the best methods and the most progressive equipment to make the…

The Reef Tank of Juan Gabriel Grajales

Besides sexual reproduction, the pinnacle of reef keeping is and has always been a display tank full of tank-grown stony corals and Juan Gabriel Grajales’ reef tank is a shining example thereof. We’ve seen a lot of reef aquarium displays…

The Kitchen Sink Reef Tank is a Tour of Coral Diversity [Video]

We’ve always said that a reef tank should be more than the sum of its parts and that you don’t need any spectacular corals to have a spectacular reef tank. A perfect case study in this aspect of reefing philosophy is…

Lots of Reef Tank Talk on Reef Therapy

For most of our aquarium career we’ve mostly listened to music or unrelated spoken word podcasts while working on our aquariums. But this is 2022 and there’s loads of great content related to reef aquariums like the Reef Therapy podcast…