VIDEO: See The Reef With New Eyes

See The Reef With New Eyes Corals are a diverse community of animals, but often this diversity of life gets overlooked. I started ReefDivers.io as a place to share my passion and knowledge of corals and scuba diving so that…

Friday Smorgasbord: “Where has April Gone?” edition

Where has April gone and why is it still snowing in places with May right on our doorstep? *Sigh* Anywho, we have another edition of our Friday Smorgasbord with some interesting posts about our oceans and what lies beneath….enjoy! SloMo…

Rare Fish Spotlight: The Poor Man’s Candy Basslet, Liopropoma swalesi

The Swalesi basslet, Liopropoma swalesi, is a very attractive fish which is hardy and a perfect, calm-mannered citizen of reef aquariums. Although it’s a beautiful fish, the swalesi basslet has been mostly overshadowed by more exotic species of basslets, most notably, the…

Arachnanthus lilith, A New Species of Tube Anemone from the Red Sea

Fish, corals and giant clams get the lion’s share of the attention in our reef tanks but there’s a whole world of interesting anemones we’ve yet to collectively get to know. Not to mention all the new species of anemones that…

See You All At ReefED in Denver This Saturday

What’s up Reef Builders and Colorado Reefing Fam? This Saturday April 28th we’ll be making our way to ReefED at the Lakewood Holiday Inn to do some coral shopping, talk shop, and catch up with veteran Reef Builder Mike Paletta. …

Video Tour of China’s Biggest Aquarium Show Part 2

The China International Pet Show towards the end of last year is a show so huge and sprawling that it literally took two videos just to bring you part of it. While the first video was mostly freshwater fish, the…

Support Ocean Guardians In Mozambique

Ocean Guardians Mozambique Did you know that 60% of Mozambicans live close to the ocean and most depend on it for their livelihoods yet many of them do not know how to swim? Ocean Guardians is an education programme run by…

Reef Octopus Octo Pulse pumps coming in May

The Reef Octopus Octo Pulse pumps we were hoping to see in 2017 are finally right around the corner and will be shipping in May. Plus they will be coming in two sizes — the Octo Pulse 2 and the Octo Pulse…

Video Tour of China’s Biggest Aquarium Show, CIPS part 1

If there’s one thing about the reef aquarium hobby that doesn’t even compare to the freshwater world, it’s the huge number of competitions in various parts of the hobby. Sure we’ve got some localized coral grow-out challenges but it’s not…

Kyocera releases aquarium LED light in this summer

Kyocera is Japanese company that is well-known for copier machine and ceramic products, and more recently smartphones.  I did not know that they have a business for LED light until recently.  It looks they are making some LED products for…