New World Publications makes some of the best identification books for identifying marine life. Their 3 volume set on Carribean Reef Fish, Reef Corals and Reef Creatures has long been the gold standard of learning about all the living things…
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Fantastic Reef Scenes of Sumbawa, Indonesia
How many corals can you count in the lush coral gardens of these reefs in Sumbawa Indonesia? Located East of Bali and Lombok and West of Flores & Komodo National Park, this part of Indonesia is even closer to the epicenter of…
Red Sea REEFER 250 Review part 1
For some of us, planning an aquarium system is a joy. It’s a process that allows us to makes list and complete tasks and people love making lists and checking off those tasks. For the rest of us planing an…
Reef Builders Editor’s Choice: 10 best new products of 2015
Another year has come and gone and we’ve seen a slew of new and interesting products introduced to the aquarium hobby. Like so many tech gadgets these days, some of these new productshave been incremental improvements to what we’ve enjoyed…
Tempmate affordable USB temperature loggers for tracking shipping temps
Shipping livestock has its challenges as the goal of maintaining a consistent temperature no matter the season. tempmate is making it easier for anyone shipping temperature-sensitive products to track and monitor temperature along the entire supply chain with a disposable…
Download Blue Harbor’s 2016 calendar for free right now!
The Blue Harbor Calendar has been an underground cultural motif for rare fish geeks all over the world for many years now. The iconic calendar has been printed in increasing quantities over the last few years, but until now this celebration of…
5 Cleaner Wrasse Myths
The introduction of Labroides spp. cleaner wrasses to marine aquarium systems is generally ill-advised. Though some hobbyists report success in keeping these obligate cleaners long term, the vast majority of specimens entering the market are doomed to perish prematurely from…
From the archives: What interested you the most in 2015?
This past year we continued to see strong and steady growth in visitors to the website and thank each and every one of you for coming back time and time again. We decided to drill down into our website traffic…
Maxspect sends warning over Jebao’s “Cross-flow wave making pump”
Maxspect is keeping up the pressure on making sure Jebao gets the message to stop infringing on other company’s designs and patents. On Tuesday, Maxspect shared an email they posted online sending a warning to Jebao about using the company’s…
Master Refractometer hot rod salinity measurement from Atago Japan
The Master Refractometer series by Atago is a high performance line of salinity measuring tools from Japan. We recently got some hands-on time with the Atago Master-S/MillM refractometer at the Bali Aquarium water monitoring laboratory, and it was quite refreshing to see a…
