Reef Builders top ten livestock picks of 2010

2010 has been a great year for marine aquarium livestock, with many new corals and rare fish appearing in the marine and reef aquarium hobby. It was hard to make a decision, there was a lot to pick from this…

House of Fins amassed a rare fish collection like no other for the 2010 SPLASH event

House of Fins is a premier LFS and aquarium maintenance company located in Greenwich CT. For the last four years HoF has put together this anniversary sale event they simply call “SPLASH”. We’ve been fortunate to attend and speak at…

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…

Historical images of Marine Fish living at the Steinhart Aquarium from the 70s and 80s

The Liopopoma fasciatum above and the Achilles Goldrim Hybrid surgeonfish below are evidence that it was possible to get very neat and rare fish even if you were an aquarist working at the Steinhart Aquarium back in the 70s and…

Rainfordia opercularis, the flat head perch is one of the rarest and least known of the basslets

Rainfordia opercularis is a fish so rare that aside from the stud in these pictures, we literally have only been able to track down just one other confirmed specimen that has come to the U.S. Closely related to fish of…

Huge weekend video roundup with lots of Old School goodness

For some reason this weekend we happened to stumble onto a handful of videos that all have an old school slant to them. The first video of Ganzel’s Reef embeded above definitely has a new school cinematic approach but we…

Candy Basslet: Hi Def video for a Hi Def reef fish

Candy basslet, Liopropoma carmabi, original high definition video. What can we say about another gem of a fish which we filmed in one of the numerous display tank at LiveAquaria? Don’t forget to click on the “HD” button.

Win an autographed issue of Reef Life Magazine, signed by the Fish Monger

As part of our contribution to the expansive raffle table at IMAC West here in Long Beach CA, we are giving away Kevin Kohen’s personal copy of the second issue of Reef Life. The cover features one of Kevin’s fantastic…

Follow us on Twitter and be entered to win a 1yr subscription to Reef Life Magazine

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…

Candy Basslet shows up on Live Aquaria

It would appear that Live Aquaria has secured a catch of Candy Basslets or otherwise known as Liopropoma carmabi. These fish are visually striking and make a nice addition to any reef aquarium. I will have to say these are…