Arachnanthus lilith, A New Species of Tube Anemone from the Red Sea

Fish, corals and giant clams get the lion’s share of the attention in our reef tanks but there’s a whole world of interesting anemones we’ve yet to collectively get to know. Not to mention all the new species of anemones that…

EasyTank Is an ATO For Tiny & Nano Reefs

If you’ve never heard of a ‘glug jug’ then you are lucky to be experiencing reef tanks in our current golden age. But back in the olden days, well before there were any top off devices besides mechanical float valves,…

Beginners Guide To ‘Cycling’ A Saltwater Aquarium

Nitrogen Cycle For Saltwater Aquariums No we don’t mean strapping your tank to a bike and taking it for a spin! Cycling your saltwater aquarium is a critical process all aquariums must endure before they are ready to be populated with…

Cobalt Aquatics adds six new filter media perfect for saltwater aquariums

Digging a little deeper into the new Cobalt Aquatics Total Reef filter media we covered yesterday, we noticed it was one of nine types of new filter media they unveiled recently. Of the nine, six that are designed for use…

New Cobalt Aquatics Total Reef Rechargeable Filter Media

Cobalt Aquatics Total Reef is one of the company’s newest additions to its line of filter media products. The “total” package is aimed to remove organics, phosphates, nitrates, and silicates from reef systems. A big plus is the media is…

Brightwell Aquatics Reef Blizzard Aquarium Foods
Reef Blizzard Reef Blizzard is a dry blended food for feeding everything in your tank. There are four packages based on particle size for, small polyp corals, large polyp corals, planktivorous fish, invertebrates, clams, sponges, bivalves, and octocorals.  Corals are photosynthetic animals…
New Brightwell FragRecover and KoralRecover herbal treatments

Brightwell Aquatics released a pair of herbal treatments for corals, FragRecover and KoralRecover. Brightwell FragRecover is an all-natural frag dip to help accelerate coral recovery and growth from the stress of fragging. It helps stimulate the regrowth of tissue after…

STOP Adding Blue Polyps to your Reef Tank!

Sarcothelia aka ‘Blue Clove’ aka ‘Blue Anthelia’ is a gorgeous little coral that unfortunately, does too well in our aquariums. I still remember the first time some reefing friends and I discovered like three polyps that had hitchhiked on some other…

Ask Reef Builders #2: Why do you believe pH is so important?

Welcome to ‘Ask Reef Builders’, a column where we’ll take some of your best questions and share our responses from which all our readers can learn. For years we’ve answered questions fielded through twitter, facebook and youtube comments, and now…

Standout Acropora & SPS Corals of Palau

As a hobby that loves and appreciates live corals, all of which originate from wild coral reefs, I don’t think we are nearly in touch with what wild corals are really like. To bridge this gap we try and travel…