The Blue Moon Aquatics LED fixture is a 15k 90 watt LED fixture that is new to the market. This fixture is advertised as replicating the intensity of the sun around the coral reef with a spectrum in the 460nm…
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DIY LED aquarium Light fixture with CREE XR-E, XP-G and MC-E goodness
For those of you fortunate to get tickets at the Reef stock event this Saturday in Denver Colorado you’ll see some (if not all) of the worlds best top LED lighting. However here at Reef Builders we are all DIY…
Pew Fellows in Marine Conservation announced, get Google Earth tour
The 2010 Pew Fellows in Marine Conservation were recently announced and not only do the researchers get much-needed money to continue their research but we get a Google Earth Marine Tour of the researchers and their work. This is a…
Malibu Beach internship from Malibu Rum
I am a big fan of Malibu Rum and an even bigger fan after I found out that they were having an internship contest in association with Reefcheck.org. The sad part? I missed out. The contest which officially ended already…
AlgaGen Reefpods Copepods Food perfect to start your refugium
Reef pods (Copepods) Tisbe spp are a great food source for many organisms including seahorses and mandarins. They are great to start seeding your refugium or when about to add something that loves reef pods. These pods are shipped in …
The Arrow Crab or Stenorhynchus seticornis in HD Video
The Guys at Morphologic got out their amazing Canon HD camera and turned the spotlight out on the Arrow Crab. The arrow Crab or Stenorhynchus seticornis is a popular addition to some marine tanks. In the video the arrow crab…
Steinhart Aquarium working to raise Rhinopias scorpionfish from their own fertile spawns
One of the advantages of working at the the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences has is being able to care for, and observe so many different animals that we might not be exposed to anywhere but a…
“The Cove” about Dolphins wins Academy Award for best Documentary
Did you watch the Academy awards last night? If you did you would have seen The Cove win the award for best documentary series. “‘The Cove,’ directed by Louie Psihoyos, uses surreptitiously gathered footage to document dolphin hunts in the…
Four persons arrested for aquarium fish smuggling in Thailand
4 persons were arrested in Rawai for smuggling protected marine species according to the Phuketgazette. “The suspects, 34-year-old Pichit Bangjak and three minors, were arrested at 11am in a pickup truck parked along Thepkrasattri Road in Rassada, near the Phuket…
Blue Harbor’s incredible rare fish menagerie on captured on video
Every time we see something new from Japan’s Blue Harbor, we want to grab the passport and jump on a plane to check out this place in person. Reef Builders’ own Taka Kamata shared this link with us of some…
