Pacific Sun Io LED Pendant Photo Contest: show us your best coral or fish to win an awesome LED reef light

If you’ve been looking for reasons to be inspired with your reef aquarium this summer, how about 27 of them? 27 of Cree’s top of the line, high powered XP series LEDs all hanging out in one of the most…

Shocker: ORA Spotted Mandarin Gobies selling out

  When ORA dropped the bomb that they would begin selling captive breed Spotted Mandarin Gobies it was a big deal in the industry. These fish which are highly desirable are usually expensive for wild caught specimens and aren’t the…

Amazing aquarium uses common corals to produce an uncommon effect

At Reef Builders, we strive to bring you aquariums that reflect  a unique perspective. Some blow us away with their sheer beauty. Others with vibrant animal growth. Still others tease us with their high-tech gadgetry and bleeding edge technology.  And…

Coral Rx Pro Giveaway, four chances to win an $80 bottle of concentrated coral cleaner

Coral Rx Pro is a concentrated coral dip that is a prophylactic treatment for a wide range of coral pest and parasites. Coral Rx Pro dilutes down to the same cocentration as the Coral Rx coral dip, but it obviously…

Rio Coral Feeders enable you to get all medieval on target feeding your corals

Whether you are into chalices, scolies, acans or some other group of ravenous heterotrophic large polyp stony coral, either way by now you should have learned that your fleshy stoneys really love to be target fed with little bits of…

ORA captive raised Spotted Mandarins go on sale

The first batch of captive bred ORA Spotted Mandarins is being released and should be soon be available for purchase from your favorite Oceans, Reefs and Aquariums (ORA) merchant. Synchiropus picturatus is one of the jewels of the marine aquarium trade…

T5/LED hybrid aquarium light fixture from CoralVue combines the best of old school and new school

Coralvue has launched a T5/LED hybrid fixture that incorporates your typical T5 HO fluorescent system but adds to it high power one watt blue LEDs. Given the highly positive feedback users are reporting with blue LED supplementation, these fixtures are…

iPhone 4 background wallpapers of reef fish and coral

The iPhone 4 has been available for just under a week which means that at least a million people out there are looking for some awesome wallpapers to tweak out the latest toy from Apple. Calling the iPhone 4 a…

Australomussa rowleyensis colonies from Timor Indonesia put this coral on the map

Australomussa rowleyensis is not quite a chalice coral, not quite an LPS and although it once was just an unusual curiosity that was sometime spotted in shipments from Indo and Australia, this amazing crop of Australomussa from Timor Indonesia is…

What seasnake coloration can teach us about algae growth

The subject of algae growth is likely one of the most frequently discussed among the freshwater and saltwater aquarium hobbies. Although we know that light and nutrients are key factors affecting the growth of unwanted algae, new research on the…