Paul K’s reef from Ireland is as colorful as it is impressive

It’s bee a while since we’ve covered a reef from our English speaking cousins, but this reef from Paul K is sure to make any Irish reefer proud. Featuring a large amount of show sized colonies and colorful coral coloration…

Reef Builder of the Month – Jason Crockett

In 2009 I was formally introduced to Jason Crockett who had just purchased a 90-gallon tank and stand from a good friend, David Noller.  After a brief introduction, Jason and I discussed many of the particulars involved with the hobby…

Phishy Business reef aquarium is an exemplary coral display

When you’re in the reef aquarium retail business setting up a display reef tank is not about breaking records or having the biggest, brightest hardest to grow and keep stony corals. So many fishstores set up unremarkable aquarium displays, it has…

Sola NightSea LED Dive light exposes fluorescent reef life

The Sola NightSea LED Dive light is a collaboration between the masters of underwater lighting Light & Motion and the pioneers of fluorescence viewing and imaging, NightSea. Built on the super high performance Sola 1200 LED dive light, the Sola NightSea…

Whatafather reef from Hong Kong is a thing of beauty

There are tanks that are awesome for their fish and coral, and then there are tanks that are awesome because of their cleanliness along with the fish and coral. The Reef of Hong Kong reef forum user Whatafather definitely falls…

Reef Builders Editor’s Choice: best products of 2012

We had a great deal of numerous and diverse marine aquarium products to tell you about last year. Many products are incremental upgrades to existing products lines and just another addition to existing categories. Some other products however, refine and redefine product…

Cobalt Neotherm fully lives up to our ideal aquarium heater

If we were to describe our ideal aquarium thermometer, the rundown would sound a lot like the the spec sheet for the Cobalt Aquatics Neotherm heater. We’d start shaping our aquarium heater with its appearance, aiming for a low-profile design that can…

Royal Exclusiv adds media filters to their Dreambox line up

Royal Exclusiv is releasing their own set of media reactors, and like all their other lines will be a classy as they are functional. Appropriately named the Dreambox media filters, the reactors are part of Royal Exclusiv Dreambox line which…

Reef Octopus is loading up on DC skimmers for 2013

Reef Octopus has been exceptionaly busy producing a steady flow of new protein skimmer designs and models over the last few years we can expect even more. Using a powerful, controllable DC water pump which is indistinguishable from the Waveline…

Solomon Reefs: get to know the reef life of the Coral Triangle

The corals and reef life of the Solomon Islands was once a bastion of aquarium harvesting activity where coral farming was pioneered and where our first really nice true percula clownfish came from. While we still have commercial aquarium activity in the…