Sea urchin research could help create self-sharpening knives

New research shows how sea urchins are able to keep their teeth always sharp despite gnawing away at rock and other hard surfaces in their never-ending search for food. The new discovery could help researchers and inventors create self-honing knives…

Luminance LED desklamp could share some design cues with LED reef lights

The Luminance LED desklamp from Lumisource may be built more for reading words at great speed than for growing corals really fast, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be inspired by it’s unctuous curves. The Luminance LED appears to be…

ReefStock 2011 at the Denver Downtown Aquarium, March 12

Mark your calendars because the fourth annual ReefStock conference is happening at the Denver Downtown Aquarium once again next year. As usual we’ll have great speakers, great vendors and live corals, an amazing raffle of great reef aquarium gear, and…

First Anampses lennardi wrasse from LiveAquaria goes up for sale tonight

Anampses lennardi. Lennard’s tamarin wrasse. The first one from LiveAquaria goes up for sale tonight and it’ll be close to seven hundred dollars, US. It won’t will be the one in the picture above, and the species looks great at…

Hybrid Unibody LED + T5 light and a Zero Edge tank turned into a striking display by AquaticArt

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZL72WknKjQ[/youtube] ZeroEdge aquariums often get an undeserved bad rap, but there’s no denying that they can make for an exceptionally striking reef aquarium display. Case in point is this fantastic 20-ish gallon ZeroEdge set up by Cris Capp…

All new Reef Octopus Pro Series skimmers

The Reef Octopus Pro-Series protein skimmers are a new line of products showcased when the Australian company recently relaunched its website. Not to be confused with Super Reef Octopus, Reef Octopus seems to be a separate company although they do…

Incrediscoly outshines even the Spirograph Scolymia

Speaking of masterpieces, this incredible Scolymia australis dubbed the ‘Incrediscoly’ by Cherry Corals is an LPS to remember. The Incrediscoly may not have as much contrast of patterning as the original Spirograph Scolymia, but it more than makes up for…

Vivaldi’s new reef tank is a masterpiece in the making

Normally when we post full tank shots on Reef Buidlers, without exception these are tanks that already look good, tank of the month, mature aquarium with a nicely aquascaped reef or coral structure. As soon as we watched this video…

Blue Photo Sponge, Collospongia auris, seems to be growing well in reef tanks

When the Blue Photo Sponge, Collospongia auris, first started to become available in the marine ornamental trade, we were apprehensive that this reef organism wouldn’t take over and smother corals like the chicken liver sponge often does. We’ve now seen…

PlanktoMarine Live, a new live plankton food from GroTech

GroTech PlanktoMarine Live is a new refrigerated, ultra-dense, live form of phytoplankton recently released to the German market. According to the company, the 20ml package of PlanktoMarine Live is comparable to a 1.8 liter bottle of traditional live plankton solutions. The highly…