The reef aquarium hobby is such a wonderful cultural movement, it’s transformed how generations of us see, think and feel about wild coral reefs. Without successful reef aquariums and all that we’ve learned about corals from them, ‘coral reefs’ would…
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It’s Always Something When You Have a Reef Tank
Recently while watching an old Saturday Night Live show with my daughter, Gilda Radner as Roseanna Rosanadanna responded as she always did to Jane Curtin that “It’s always something, if it’s not one thing it’s another. Within seconds of this…
GNC AM366 panel LED Review
BY: Hugo Snell Introduction Six weeks ago, I purchased the GNC AM366 panel LED for my 45cm SPS cube. I had been running an AI Hydra 26HD over the tank. While I was getting good growth in some parts of…
The Biome Approach: A Tale Of Two Reefs
The Biome Approach: A Tale Of Two Reefs By: Greg Collinske It seems like whenever we consider starting a new reef aquarium, we always come back to thoughts about the two very large reef exhibits in Denver’s Downtown Aquarium. We…
Australia LFS Tour: Found Some Delights At Hurstville Aquariums
The Australia Aquarium and LFS tour is in full swing over here in Sydney and boy are the videos stacking up. The second LFS to get the Reef Builders ‘review’ is Hurstville Aquariums, a small shop outside of town which is…
Reef Tanks Can Suffer From Too Much of a Good Thing
By now we have all probably heard the quote from St. Bernard that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. That seems to be an especially appropriate quote for this hobby where it seems that often when we…
Some Cryptic And Remarkable Corals From Palau
The reefs of Palau are amongst the healthiest I have ever seen with lush coral growth that varied by habitat, but afforded plenty of cool coral encounters. The semi-enclosed lagoons with very shallow water is where an unusual Montipora could be…
Marine Ornamental Species Aquaculture – Hardcover Textbook Now Available
Marine Ornamental Species Aquaculture The global trade of aquatic organisms for home and public aquariums, along with associated equipment and accessories, has become a multi-billion dollar industry. Aquaculture of marine ornamental species, still in its infancy, is recognized as a…
Vermetid ‘Tubeworms’ Are Bad for Aquariums, AND Coral Reefs
We’ve hated vermetids for as long as we’ve been reefing, and now science has given us the last nail in the coffin for this unwanted aquarium critter. Although they look like tubeworms, vermetids are actual a kind of snail which…
Milestones & Pioneers of The Reef Aquarium Hobby
Between the inauguration last week and Martin Luther King Day, you could not turn on anything without hearing the phrase “Events that shaped history”. That got me to thinking about the events that shaped the reef aquarium hobby. While I…
