Reef Gently first showed us the Acclimate, a plastic contraption that could do all sorts of amazing things back in MACNA and since then the “wonder box” has become very popular. Besides being a bag of tricks and then some…
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Aquarium Stimulus Program: Full passes to the IMAC West show
IMAC West is a little over a week away and Reef Builders is hooking up one of our readers with a free pass to the largest marine aquarium show of the summer. IMAC West is the new home of the…
Warner Marine K2 skimmers to get PVC
Can you spot the PVC in the above picture? Warner Marine has updated their K2 protein skimmers that gives the skimmers a new look. “The latest K-2’s rolling off the line now have a white PVC CNC machined threaded twist-lock.…
Old ReefLux lamp does the splits
Here’s a note to the would-be overdrivers of ReefLux lamps: If you are overdriving ReefLux metal halide lamps to get some crazy good PAR numbers, don’t. The lamp above may have been overdriven for more than 12 months but we…
Blue harbor shows off some Lipogramma klayi gems
Rare fish specialists Blue Harbor are at it again with a fresh batch of beautiful bicolor basslets, Lipogramma klayi. These fish were caught on a special deep diving mission in Curacao which among the Lipogramma also targeted candy basslets. Although…
Deltec TC SC skimmer captured on video
While the world has been patiently awaiting (Europe should have their units already) the new TC/SC skimmer lines from Deltec to be released for public consumption, we are left with a teaser video that shows the unit up and working.…
Reef Central is (maybe) down offline Indefinitely, database destroyed UPDATE: It’s not going anywhere
We reported earlier yesterday that Reef Central was down and today it looks like our worst fears have been confirmed. Reef Central is down and from the looks of things, it isn’t coming back. Apparently the database backup files that…
Gold Crown Butterflyfish variant shows up in Japan
Following up on the story we posted several days ago regarding the gold crown butterflyfish, Chaetodon (Roaps) flavocoronatus, as we expected at least one of these specimens has shown up for sale in Japan. However, in contrast to the nearly…
Rare Butterflyfish Parade: Roa excelsa, Roaps flavocoronatus and a new Roaps tinkeri hybrid
Not sure what is in the air lately but have we got the goods on a nice handful of uber rare butterflyfish fish for you. Hot on the heels of the orange margin butterflyfish, Prognathodes basabei, we have an odd-phase…
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This latest issue of Reef Life Magazine is so packed with new articles on rare fish and corals, we just can’t contain ourselves. The July/August issue features a double dose of Liopropoma reef basslets, Trimma and Eviota nano gobies, new…
