After 30-something years in the hobby, you see a lot of trends come and go. Fads and “new” ideas show up and subsequently vanish back into the mists of time. Some of these “fads” do stick around a while, yet…
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Morphologic Studios gets all artsy on PBS
We know Coral Morphologic for their quality Florida ricordia, corallimorphs and zoanthids, but did you know they are productive artists in the Miami art scene as well? Recently a local PBS affiliate WLNR featured Morphologic Studio artists and owners Colin…
BioPellets coming to North America from Aquarium Specialty
More good news on the NP-reducing BioPellets we brought you earlier. Reef Builders’ sponsor Aquarium Specialty is bringing the BioPellets to North America in mid-November and they are taking pre-orders today. Aquarium Specialty expects the shipment to arrive the second…
Silica Dosing: reef blasphemy or another form of nutrient export?
It has been long held that silica in reef tanks is bad, very, very bad. We avoid beach and play sand like it’s poison because it is believed that silica will cause an undesirable diatom bloom: brown glass, brown gook on rock and substrates, and unhappy reefkeepers. But what if we could control this system and use it to our advantage…say, to increase nutrient export? Let’s take a look at some old data, some new data, and a controversial hypothesis: that dosing silica may increase nutrient export efficiency.
Sybon Sea Salt says it mixes crystal clear
Sybon salt is a new “advanced engineered synthetic sea salt” on the market. Called Sybon Premium, it says it “contains perfect balance of all major, minor and 70 trace elements found in natural seawater, enriched with a wide spectrum of…
Voracity Food enrichment from Gourmet Reef Cuisine
Gourmet Reef Cuisine new Voracity is a “food enrichment which is a powerful combination of all the key ingredients necessary for maximum food enrichment in one compressive, all natural, easy to use formula that is safe for both marine and…
Seaweed Blend by Rod’s Food is a trifecta of colorful seaweed
The Seaweed Blend of algaes from Rod’s Food may just be seaweed in a bag but at least it contains three different types of marine vegetation. Just like the frozen “Fish Eggs”, Rod gets very specific about his the contents…
Fluval G filter from Hagen gets outed with more official pictures
The Fluval G filtration system finally gets outed with high quality pictures. Finally. As it has only taken Hagen 3 months a few months to finally give up the goods. This Fluval G filter is being pushed by Hagen as…
Reef Life and Advanced Aquarist: A new magazine charts a course and the original online magazine diversifies
There’s a lot of good news in the marine aquarium magazine world these days including the increasing diversity of ways that two publications are reaching out to their readers. The nascent Reef Life Magazine is making some headway with it’s…
Instructions for Fauna Marin’s new Light Balling method
The balling method is a popular method in which to provide your aquarium with calcium, magnesium, carbonate hardness and trace elements. However, strong lighting, stony coral husbandry and special bacterial systems have changed the water chemistry requirements, which made it…
