Pokpo Genesis Nano Overflow Device

The Genesis aquarium siphon system is a highly innovative new method for getting water from your tank to the filtration area underneath. Created by a company called Pokpo, the Genesis has all the essential functions of an overflow box in…

Kamoer X1 Micropump has Wireless Control for only $60!

The Kamoer X1 Micropump is a new liquid metering device which packs a ton of features in a small size and a tiny price to match. At $59 we’d be pretty happy with the Kamoer X1 if it performed a…

New EasyLPS Pellet Food from EasyReefs

EasyLPS is a new pelleted coral food for LPS species from EasyReefs. EasyReefs is trying to make a name for itself as a company solely focused on the nutrition of reef animals with a lineup that started with very fine…

Purple Tang Captive Bred by Bali Aquarich

The Purple tang has been captive bred and it comes to fruition from a familiar player in the world of reef fish aquaculture, Bali Aquarich. It’s only been a couple years since the breakthroughs in breeding the closely related yellow…

Some Fish are MUCH Smarter Than Birds & Mammals

We’ve been working with and keeping fish pretty much all of our lives, and many of you have long, personal histories with diverse groups of fish. As aquarists we are familiar with the different ways our fish can demonstrate a…

Chromis tingting, a New Species of Damselfish from Japan

Chromis tingting is a brand new species of damselfish described from Japan by Lemon TYK and Anthony Gill. Hailing from Japan’s famous Sagami Bay, the new Ting Ting damselfish has been confounded with similarly colored Chromis like C. mirationis with which…

Unboxing the Motherlode of Rare and Exotic Fish [video]

For years we’ve wrote about, photographed and filmed some of the rarest tropical reef fish in the world, often by visiting the right marinelife dealers, reefs or private tanks. One of the biggest reasons for the Reef Builders Studio is…

Palau Once Again Has the Largest Giant Clam Farm in the World

Giant clams are some of the most enigmatic creatures both on the reef, and in the aquarium. Over the years we’ve written countless stories about the multitude of species of Tridacna and Hippopus from all over the world, culminating with a visit to…

The ‘Keyhole Sailfin’ has a HOLE Right Through its Body!

We’ve covered some truly bizarre and unique marine fish of all kinds over the years, but to this day we can’t say we’ve ever even heard of anything quite like this. Marine fish with deformed bodies, especially tailless specimens have…

Icecap Releases the first NEW KalkStirrer in Ages!

The IceCap kalkwasser reactor or kalk stirrer is one of the first new models of this kind of device we’ve seen in a really long time. As you know we are big believers in the dosing of kalk in our…