The Fauna Marin Bacto Reef Balls that were on display at MACNA and are now available in the US market. Unlike other solid carbon dosing products like bio pellets, the Fauna Marin Bacto Reef Balls are bacteria-based probiotic in a…
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Flower Anemones & St Thomas Shrooms From Belize Will Blow Your Mind!
Belize is well known in the Caribbean Sea as a concentration of biodiversity to divers, but now it’s finally going to be on the map in the aquarium world as well. Recent imports of flower anemones and St. Thomas shrooms from…
Roatan Dive Guide Is The Ultimate Guide For Scuba Diving Roatan Honduras
If you are planning a trip to Roatan or already on the Island you will definitely want to pick up a copy of the Roatan Dive Guide Edition 2.1. The colorful 120-page guide includes 60 of the best dive sites in…
Featured Reef Friday – Send Us Your Pictures TODAY!
Send us your reef! Do you have a reef tank begging to be featured? One of our favorite perks of working for Reef Builders is getting to see stunning reef tanks from around the world. And we know that our…
Tracking wayward youth key to better reef management
Seems like “Finding Nemo” should have been more like “The Lost Boys” or “The Outsiders”. Right after birth, baby clownfish stray from home and scientists are playing truancy officers using the distance they travel as an indicator of the effects…
Help Protect The Mesoamerican Reef: Sign The Petition
The Mesoamerican Reef is located in the Caribbean Sea and touches the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. As the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, it stretches nearly 1000 km from the northern tip of the Yucatan…
Five Ways To Go Beyond The Basics Of Aquarium Lighting
I can clearly remember a time when understanding light on our aquariums was more like trying to wrap your head around alchemy than actual science. We discussed light in number of tubes, watts per gallons, and trichromatic, actinic and daylight…
Adelotremus deloachi, a Newly Described Fangblenny from Indonesia
Adelotremus deloachi is a new species of fangblenny that was discovered in Bali of all places. We mention the type locality with some degree of surprise since Bali is so well travelled and dove, you’d think that most of the…
Becoming A PADI Instructor Zambezi’s Story
Education There are three elementary schools on the island with classes up to the 8th grade. While current generations are more likely to attend school, growing up Zambezi and his age group were unlikely to study past the 3rd or…
Reef Aquariums Through Time
As the Rolling Stones once sang “Time waits for no one, he won’t wait for me”. With the passing of yet another long-time hobbyist, Albert Theil, recently it got me to thinking about time and its relationship to the hobby.…
