For decades all of our fresh and saltwater aquarium worked just fine with dumb, one speed AC water pumps so we still remember setting up our first ever controllable DC pump. We didn’t really understand what we would achieve with…
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ATB Quietly Updates Their Cone Skimmer with New Controllable Pumps
Aquarium Technik Burian, better known as ATB, is a company that made its mark on the aquarium world by introducing protein skimmers with a cone shaped body. This conical shape used to be a differentiating feature of ATB skimmers but…
Editor’s Choice: Top 10 New Products of 2020
There’s no doubt that this has been an unusual year for the aquarium hobby as well as the rest of the world. With so many of us stuck in our homes we’ve been able to give our tanks more attention…
Aquavitro Division Skimmer Review – A Return to the Fundamentals of Protein Skimming
The Aquavitro Division skimmer is an exciting new product from Seachem that strives to provides an ideal balance of features for a surprising price. Right off the bat it’s clear that these new Division skimmers are not going to be…
Fragging Duncan Coral and Installing the UltraReef Skimmer
There’s never any shortage of things to do around the Reef Builders Studio and topics to bring to the Reef Builders Studio video series. Instead of focusing on a single thing this week, we thought we’d combine two different topics…
Akula UKS Skimmer by Ultra Reef is a Work of Art
Ultra Reef has been making protein skimmers for over a decade, but being based in Europe the only time we ever got to spend with these fractionating machines was brief stints during trips to Europe. Well finally we have our…
Tigahboy Macroalgae Tank – Reef Builders Featured Tank
We recently when we came across this 9 gallon macroalgae tank and reached out to Tigahboy to feature his creation on Reef Builders. It’s not often we come across such a healthy example of a simple planted saltwater aquariums so…
Seadreams Is Shaking Up The Market With A New Biological Filtration Reactor
Seadreams has just released a new biological filtration reactor complete with a built-in rotating shaking system for maintaining a precision bioload in your reef tank. The standard version comes with a knob on the lid of the reactor which for…
2020 Edition of the Typhoon Skimmer by Ultra Reef
As we’ve seen with the entry level Borei skimmer and the small footprint Akula models, Ultra Reef takes great pride in constantly improving their protein skimmers year over year, and this is especially true of their flagship Typhoon range. The Typhoon…
The Akula UKS ‘Ultra Compact Skimmer’ from Ultra Reef
The Akula Ultra Kompact Skimmer from Ultra Reef is an updated mid-range line of protein skimmers packing just as many goodies as the entry level Borei skimmer we introduced last week. AS the name implies, the ultra compact design is…
