For Meaghan Johnson monitoring the forecast for the loop current in the Gulf of Mexico has been a daily ritual since the disastrous BP oil spill began. The “loop” is the current that seasonally carries water and everything in it…
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Some notes on a coral reefing event, Belgium style
The following is a guest contribution from Karl Vankersschaever, owner of Mare Nostrum and a passionate European reef aquarium hobbyist. Last friday, Frantisek Floder from coral-shop was invited to the Gent Aquarium club. He gave a lecture about reefkeeping in…
The Milka Stylo, an amazing purple Stylophora as photographed by Sanjay Joshi
The Purple Stylophora which has recently entered the American reef aquarium hobby is one of the more distinct new SPS strains to become available in years. European aquarists have been enjoying this strain of purple polyp Stylophora pistillata for over…
LeDio Mystery Purple and NanoCustoms PAR 38 LED spotlights tango in these videos of azoox corals
The Ledio Mystery Purple LED spotlight from Volx Japan is one which we compared to many LED spotlights including the PAR 38 lamp from NanoCustoms which will be familiar to new and old Reef Builders readers alike. The Mystery purple…
Fauna Marin LPS pellet coral food quickly eaten by a Scolymia australis
The LPS Pellet coral food by Fauna Marin sure seems to elicit a strong feeding response in this Scolymia australis. As you can see in the video above by our sponsor Cherry Corals, within less than 90 seconds of sprinkling…
Black Ice Semi Snowflake Clownfish is ORA’s freak of the week
Lookout Dominoes and Black Photons because there’s a new clownfish cross in town and it’s called the Black Ice Semi Snowflake. Apparently ORA tried to rub a black ocellaris clownfish together with a snowflake clownfish, hoping to get a black…
Blue Cespitularia now available captive grown from ORA
Blue Cespitularia is an iconic soft coral which was quasi unobtainable for the better part of the last decade of reefing. Following the opening of more locations to coral collections and expanded list of species which are collected for the…
Potential Korallen Zucht KZ LED light demoed at their InterZoo booth
The KZ LED is not a product we expected to see from Korallen Zucht at InterZoo a few weeks back. The famous creators of the Zeovit method are better known for exotic additives in funky blue bottles and exotic protein…
Coral-Shop’s Nano-Reef PR set with Platinum Reef additives
The CS Nano Reef SET PR by coral-shop is a new kit for nano reefs which is loaded with bite sized portions of the Platinum Reef line of additives. Previously if you were running a nano reef aquarium and wanted…
Chlorinity test kit from Coral Shop measures proportion of chloride in aquarium water
the CS Test for Chlorinity by Coral Shop is the first kit we have seen to specifically measure Chlorinity in aquarium water. Chlorinity is a measure of the Chloride, Bromide and Iodide ions that make up the total dissolved solids…
