The Arctic Breeze cooling fans from Aqua Medic have hit the U.S. just in time for summer. Evaporative cooling is one of the most efficient ways to keep your aquarium temperature down especially with the hot summer months coming up when…
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Hands-on with the Mame Nano Overflow, the Lily Pipe of reef aquariums
The Mame Nano Overflow is one of the most luscious piece of hardware ever built or conceived for the marine aquarium. That may sound hyperbolic but we make no claim to hide our fanfare for this very creative Mame Design…
BP Oil Spill: Cold-Water Reefs Threatened
While the Deepwater Horizon oil geyser spill continues to stir political debate and attention, a lesser known problem is also being documented. It turns out that oil is actually leaking into the water. Who knew? This information may hit mainstream media sometime…
Some “Light Conversation”- Lightfair 2010 and the LED Revolution
It’s no secret that the crew here at Reef Builders are huge fans of LED lighting. Seems like not a day goes by when we’re not breaking something new on this evolving technology. It’s a fact- LED technology is not…
Super Reef Octopus bringing a pair of media reactors to market
Super Reef Octopus recently released a pair of media reactors sporting the orangish-red acrylic we’ve seen recently in other SRO products coming out on the market. The two reactors both measure in at 20 inches tall with either a 2.5-…
Red Sea’s Nitrate Pro, Phosphate Pro and Algae Control test kits
Nitrate pro, Phosphate Pro and Algae Control are new test kits from Red Sea which are aiming to spice up your aquarium chemistry set. Nitrate Pro does 100 test in the range of 0.06 to 15 ppm with an accuracy…
LED Nano Reef from AquaMedic is a huge hit at InterZoo 2010
The striking nano reef aquarium pictured above is a demonstration tank that AquaMedic had built simply to show off a few of their products. Who could have known that by the time AquaMedic integrated their new Nanoprop 5000, Turboflotor 500…
Tetra keeps it classy with 55th anniversary Tetramin tin of fish mints
Tetra’s 55th anniversary tin bears the semblance of the original can of Tetramin flake food for aquarium fish even if the original Tetramin can was only made with a German label. The motifs and designs of the can above stay…
New Grassy LeDio 27 watt LED spotlight
The Grassy LeDio line of LED spotlights from VolxJapan just got more “oomph” with the new Grassy LeDio 27 version in two reefing flavors recently. The new lamps feature 27 watts of output via nine Cree Xp series LEDs running at 3…
Aqua Reef Tech is a rare builder of acrylic tanks in the BeNeLux
The following is a guest contribution from Karl Vankersschaever, owner of Mare Nostrum and a passionate European reef aquarium hobbyist. Although very common in the US, you can hardly buy an acrylic tank in Belgium, the Netherlands or Luxembourg (BeNeLux).…
