Captive Bred Cypho purpurascens still a rarity!

It is a known fact that the Oblique-Lined or Mccullochi Dottyback is still a rarity in the hobby.  When Cypho purpurascens shows up in the trade, this stunning fish easily fetches $80 to $100+ for the “drab” female, with top…

Reef Builders now available in the Spanish Language

Today it is my pleasure to announce that we are officially launching Reef Builders in Spanish. The site, Reef Builders in Spanish is as you might have guessed written entirely in the Spanish Language. Expect the same great content that…

Sanyo VPC-CA102YL waterproof HD camcorder, getting up close and personal in your reef

Waterproof cameras aren’t anything new but with the amount of HD punch packing in smaller forms cameras like the new Sanyo VPC-CA102YL waterproof camcorder are bringing an affordable, handheld HD camera giving you the ability to get right inside your…

Genicanthus takeuchi hybrid from Ogasawara could have a little semifasciatus angelfish in it

Genicanthus angelfish hybrids are enough, to discover one which is a mix of G. takeuchi is truly a once in a lifetime find. We’d be happy to just see a full blooded alive in our life time, in the U.S.…

Visit to Austria’s Mega Zoo and their top notch reef keeping department.

The following is a guest contribution from Karl Vankersschaever, owner of Mare Nostrum and a passionate European reef aquarium hobbyist. Summer is usually the time to visit some old friends and to make some new friends. So we went for…

Asian Reef Video Blitz: RGBY LED reef, wild caught marines with no tails, Japanese maiden goby and a nice stand of smooth skin acros

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwbQsoOGgLI[/youtube] Reef Videos are in such abundance on the net these days that we struggle to keep with posting them one at a time. Currently we’ve been building up a nice collection of great reef videos from Japan,…

ZooMed Mag Clip is one of the best aquarium accessories ever

The Zoomed MagClip is one of the most useful yet underrated pieces of equipment we’ve ever used. Designed to hold tubing in place, the completely waterproof magclip is useful for clipping just about anything; power cords, tubing, nori, frags, corals…

Krzysztof Tryc’s reef tank system with BioPellets

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V70KV_dZ9UE[/youtube] Krzysztof Tryc’s reef tank system was once a Dream Tank of the Quarter for the ZEOvit system but these days, it’s pimping some nice results with NP reducing Biopellets. About a year and a half since Krzysztof…

Opistognathus hopkinsi: first pictures of a live one from Japan

Opistognathus hopkinsi is a beautiful, coldwater jawfish which has never before been photographed alive. If you thought that the blue spot jawfish, Opistognathus rosenblatti, was the bee’s knees of burrowing, mouthy fish then you haven’t been introduced to Hopkin’s jawfish.…

Magi-Klean pump cleaning solution coming soon from Hydor

Magi-klean is a new pump cleaning solution that is strong enough to remove tough biofouling like coralline algae, tubeworms and calcium buildup. This is only the second pump cleaning kit we’ve seen for the aquaium market with an emphasis on…