Last weeks video of the Oyster leaves room for another animal that was living close by. “This short video depicts one example of just how tightly woven the ecosystem of the coral reef really is. Even in just a few…
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Think outside the box with 115 gallon reef bowls
Hi! My name is Dave Lackland and I was raised and educated as an artist. I have 30 years experience creating and maintaining marine aquaria so when it came time for a show case system in my own living room, it had to…
Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide in the aquarium: Algae Removal
I would like to introduce a tool that I have found extremely useful in my years of aquaculturing coral. Hydrogen peroxide has been a time saver, and a life saver (as well as harbinger of near total death and destruction). For…
MW 700, a new portable lux meter from Milwaukee Instruments
The MW 700 is a new portable lux meter from Milwaukee Instruments which was spotted lying around on a table in Orlando this weekend. ReefBuilders writer Scott Fellman was shmoozing at the Global Pet Expo and he managed to snap…
EcoReef One, second preview
Here is another preview video of EcoReef One, a live rock-less, LED-lit five gallon nano cube that lives off of an average of 20 watts of power consumption and water changes. This is indeed a video, see the harlequin shrimp…
Eerily cool statues drown in Cancun
In a follow-up to a previous post, the Cancun and Isla Mujeres Underwater Art Museum has added three new sculptures to their enormous collection of underwater art. The three new additions are entitled Dream Collector, Man on Fire, and The…
ZooMed Ocean Sun 10k and Actinic 420 T5 bulbs
Zoomed, manufactures of reptile products has released Coral Sun T5 lights in either 10k or actinic 420 colors. Apparently Zoomed thought it wise to come out with the T5 lamps after realizing T8 and T12 lamps would be going the…
New Caledonia enlists Australia to aid in reef protection
We’ve all heard of the Great Barrier Reef but did you know New Caledonia is home to the second largest reef in the world? The French Pacific territory recently made a call to Australia in hopes of tapping into the…
Reef Capable HO LED prototype from Marineland shows some light at the Global Pet Expo
Hold on to your corallites folk because all that promise of mass market LED from marineland’s Double Bright is about to get a little closer to reality as we sneak a peek at the HO LED prototype at Global Pet…
The blue-spot butterflyfish that holds a lot of promise for the future of captive reared aquarium fish
This petite blue spot butterflyfish, Chaetodon plebius, from Sustainable Aquatics may only be 1.25″/3cm long, but this little guy is a window into a very big future of captive reared fish. Sure it’s nice to have captive reared fish like…
