Black Rock Reef MR3 frag racks have style and substance

So many tanks these days suffer from frag-a-titis- a bad rash of unsightly frag plugs slowly creeping across the sandbed.  The best cure is a magnetic frag rack, but when looking around, each find seems uglier than the last.  Where…

Sea Sweep from Sea Swirl is a new propeller pump rotating device

The Sea Sweep is a new product from Sea Swirl that rotates your propeller pump from side to side, much like the sweeping motion of the Sea Swirls. The Sea Sweep has been designed to hold and withstand the kickback…

Tunze 6095 Nanostream spotted at MACNA

We first laid our eyes on a promotional sign for the Tunze Nanostream 6095 at Reef Stock in the beginning of the year we finally got our hands on a Tunze 6095 Nanostream here at MACNA. The 6095 Nanostream will be fully controllable and push…

New Mag Float Scrape is available now (updated)

The Mag Float Scrape is a larger, heavier duty floating magnet with a scraping front end like the Mag-Flip. We saw the first version of the Mag Float Scrape at Interzoo in Germany over a year ago when it was…

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July 5 – July 11th Amazon enters the aquatics industry via Wag.com Neodymium costs driving up prices on magnets, how will the cost be passed onto the consumer? Lubricogobius dinah, not your run of the mill clown goby Treehugger has…

Koven Aquatics linkable LED strips coming soon in royal blue, 10K white and far red

Koven Aquatics is a new company that is aiming to bring to market some pragmatic LED strips with basic useful features. Instead of a flood of color options the Koven Aquatics LED strips will be available in the most popular…

Cyclops Bull Shark captured in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico

We cover a lot of hybrid fishes here on Reef Builders but the one eyed bull shark recently discovered in the Sea of Cortez really takes the cake. The cyclops shark was an unborn pup that was removed from a…

Cost of Lanthanum and Neodymium rise sharply following China’s stockpiling of rare earth metals

There is one chemical reaction at which the rare earth metal Lanthanum is particularly good at, and that’s precipitating phosphate from water. The use of Lanthanum Chloride (LaCl3) to precipitate phosphate from reef aquarium water has grown in recent years,…

Opinion: So you want to be an aquarium entrepreneur?

If there is one thing in this hobby that we need it is aquarium entrepreneurs. Ones that have a vision and stick with it, ones that know what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and ones that are more…

Universal Rocks aquarium backgrounds lightweight, flexible and realistic

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lRBS5GQE20&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Although the company has been in business down in Australia for over 10 years, Universal Rocks is starting to gain a bit more presence in the United State. In case you haven’t seen this product before, Universal Rocks creates…