The focused approach to reef keeping

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…

Atlanta Reef Club’s domain problems

The Atlanta Reef Club, which successfully hosted the 2008 Macna in Atlanta has been having domain problems. Apparently the issue has stemmed from a user who was banned. That user then sent in a copyright infringement notice directed to the…

The Coral Reef Aquarium by Tony Vargas is the next great book of reefing

Our good friend Tony “Tuba Taha” Vargas is putting the finishing touches on his new book The Coral Reef Aquarium which will focus on start to finish of how to set up a slammin reef tank. Coral and Fish identification…

Phoenix LFS, Reef Culture, shows off Ecoxotic LED lighting

Thanks to one of our readers Chris White, we were shown this great local fish store in the Phoenix area, Reef Culture, that uses LED lighting on all its displays and holding tanks. Not only are the displays stunning, but…

SEASMART coral farm reaping rewards with first corals to hit markets and local reefs by December

The first SEASMART coral farm has launched in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and is looking to to grow corals for both sale into the aquarium market and to help restore local reefs. We’re big fans of the SEASMART program, a joint…

Wingo LED strips are accent lights for your fish or reef

We find it odd that the race for LED lights started at the top with everyone vying for having the best or brightest reef light. Companies are still aiming to grow mini reef corals with LEDs but now it seems…

Flex LED from ReefBrite gives you twilight or moonlight, on the fly and on the cheap

The Flex LED from ReefBrite is a flexible LED strip that can be easily added to almost any existing aquarium lighting setup. Whether you have a pendants hanging above your reef or a fully covered aquarium canopy, The ReefBrite Flex…

Carefully neglecting your reef so you can do other things

The following is a contribution from Mark van der Wal, a personal friend of ours in this hobby for over ten years. Congratulations to Mark on having a perfect little baby girl this week, Elise Catherine van der Wal, a…

Asian Reef Video Blitz: RGBY LED reef, wild caught marines with no tails, Japanese maiden goby and a nice stand of smooth skin acros

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwbQsoOGgLI[/youtube] Reef Videos are in such abundance on the net these days that we struggle to keep with posting them one at a time. Currently we’ve been building up a nice collection of great reef videos from Japan,…

John Ciotti’s “Upside Down Reef” nano tank

It has been about six months since we first introduced John Ciotti’s innovative upside down aquascape nano reef tank. When we visited the Southern California MAS a couple of weeks ago, we had the chance to visit this aquarium at…