Red Sea Max Nano Peninsula Gets Formal Announcement

The Red Sea Max Nano Peninsula is the newest all in one aquarium to come out of the Israel-base reef aquarium company. We first learned about the Max Nano Peninsula a couple weeks ago from a printed Red Sea catalog…

Coral Finder 2022, the Annual Revision of the Best ID Guide

Coral Identification can be a tricky undertaking but one tool has risen to the top to help make sense of polyps and corallites, Russel Kelley’s Coral Finder guide. Now in its fifth edition and second annual revision, this 2022 edition…

Spawning of Montipora digitata was ‘Manipulated’ by Innoqua in Japan

Innoqua is a start-up company in Japan established in 2019 to accelerate aquatic organism research. Right now, we do not know when coral exporting countries might stop shipping corals based on any reasons such as political, environmental concerns and others.…

Oase StreamMax Pumps are out of Touch

Oase is a brand synonymous with quality and if you’ve owned a pond in the past thirty years and wanted a solids-handling pump, Oase was probably top of your list. We’ve seen the German pond giant make moves into the…

Chihiros Nova 1 is a Seminal Entry into Saltwater Aquarium Lighting

The Chihiros Nova 1 is a new LED light from a company which will be unknown to reef aquarium keepers but which has come to mean excellence in another side of the hobby. For several years now Chihiros has been…

Another Cautionary Tale About Zoanthids [Graphic Warning]

Hi, my name is Taï from Paris, I’ve been in the hobby for more than 10 years now and I wanted to share with you a scary and dangerous experience regarding my reef tank. I used to collect zoanthids to…

EU wrasse imports jeopardized due to catch-all disease restrictions

Reef Builders has learned that the import of all wrasses into Europe has been restricted. Fish health authorities have confirmed that wrasses and their relatives within the family Labridae are now only allowed to be exported to the European Union…

How War Changed the Life of Ukrainians and their Pets

As the war against Ukraine has progressed our hearts have been with the people under siege and we’ve been profoundly concerned for their well being as well as their pets and aquariums. The video shared below is from Pleco Ceramics…

Confused Moseleya Grew Like a Chalice Coral

Of all the coral species that can make us rubberneck at a reef aquarium conference we have to admit that Moseleya is rarely able to elicit that kind of response. Save for few exceptions the honeycomb-shaped moon coral is almost…

Carbon Doser v2.0 Reaches Second Generation with Tunze Collab

The CarbonDoser v2.0 is the new second generation of the first popular ‘electronic’ carbon dioxide regulator for aquarium use. First revealed all the way back in 2009, although it enjoyed plenty of refinements and tweaks it only took a dozen…