The Reef Builders staff does it’s fair share of traveling to marine aquarium events around the country but this weekend we’ll be serving double duty with Brian at MAX and myself at BAR. This Saturday and Sunday, the third Marine…
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Premium Aquatic’s German 1-2 Glue ain’t your grandpa’s reef epoxy
Two part epoxies are gross, smelly, cumbersome, they takes forever to cure and half of the time the bond doesn’t hold. For this reason we have more or less abandoned using two part epoxies and try to use super glue…
Boost your color with green light, an additional source of fluorescence excitation
For years and years we’ve seen a hobby dominated by white lights, with blue actinics. Be it halide, pc, vho, led, or anything else; the usage of a bright white light with the enhancement of blue light (about 420 to…
Uh oh: Ships using Great Barrier Reef as ‘rat run’
That Chinese Tanker which we reported about earlier apparently was sneaking the coral reefs as a “rat run”. A Rat Run is when a ship takes a faster route to save time and fuel costs even if the section in…
The Enduring Allure of “Chalices”: What’s the Deal?
I don’t know if it’s just one of those things that happens when you get older- you start questioning everything in the hobby: Conventions, norms, and trends are but a few of the things you ponder. I’m not grumpy, believe…
Bring Back The Wall!!! Rock Wall Aquascaping
The aquascaping world has been thrown topsy turvey with all sorts of new designs these past few years. We’ve seen the pinnacles, the islands, the arches, the feng shui, the focal points, the atolls, low profile, and everything else. But…
Atlantis Marine World switching some displays over to straw bale sponge filters
Sponge filters are not a novel invention but due to budget cutbacks, Atlantis Marine World of Riverhead NY has been experimenting with a supersized version of the classic sponge filter that is made from straw bale. The supersized straw bale…
Scientist finds cure to RTN
RTN. What causes it? Nobody really seems to know. Even Hitler himself admitted to not knowing what causes the dreaded RTN. But how can we prevent it? Can it be cured? Apparently it can, as it was announced today that…
AquaIllumination teardown confirms Interchangeable LED puck
The newest AquaIllumination light is still one of the first aquarium LED lights using Cree XP-G LEDs to be widely available to reef aquarists. Since the completion of the ReefStock conference we’ve had a lot more time to give some…
Giveaway: World Atlas of Marine Fishes, one book to rule them all
This is a repost of a story we first did back in fall 2008. Marine Depot would like for us to giveaway one copy of this book to remind you that they still sell this book for cheap and it…
