It’s Back! 2012 LED Showdown — You Decide

The Reef Builders LED showdown is back! Last year we had a lot of fun letting you choose who you thought was the “top dog” in the LED showdown and wanted to let you all have the chance to weigh…

Vertex Omega Cone skimmer leads the pack for AC powered internal designs

Although the first introduction to the Vertex Omega Cone skimmer was a recirculating model with a huge recirculating pump, what Vertex has settled on with the simply internal Omega skimmer is perhaps one of the best new reef toys of…

Top 5 LED lights for nano reef aquariums in 2012

2012 has been a really good year for the reef and marine aquarium hobby. We’ve seen all manner of exciting reef fish, new species of soft and stony corals, and the newly released products were so abundant that this year…

Royal Exclusiv refreshes BK Mini 200 and Mini Red Dragon for 2013

Hot on the heels of refreshing their online webshop Royal Exclusiv is flaunting two new upgrades to their line of venerable aquarium products – The Bubble King Mini 200 is now available with the Red Dragon 3 speedy and the…

AVAST Marine releases DIY SeaBones Calcium Reactor Kit

AVAST Marine Works has added another dimension to its DIY product kits with the release of the SeaBones Calcium Reactor Kit. The kit has all the things you need to assemble and create a durable calcium reactor while saving a…

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  November 13th–November 19th Reef Builders Pick: Five additional amazing nano reefs Acan Lighting Prism, Vertex Illumina, and the Maxspect Razor get a comparative rundown Exotic Sealife International brings in a mother lode of hot corals Hands on review of…

Hands on review of the Sea Side Aquatics ES5 Protein Skimmer

Sea side Aquatics has been bringing in the popular Bubble Magus line of skimmers for a while now. The one thing about the Bubble Magus series that could use improvement was the skimmer pump. Some folks were having issues with…

Vertex Omega 150 internal ‘wine glass’ cone skimmer comes to U.S.

The Vertex Omega 150 internal cone skimmer is the newest vertex skimmer to enter US the market. We covered the big brother of the Omega 150 more than two years ago at Interzoo, which is an external model and featured a…

Eshopps nano skimmer is a big skimmer in a small body

The Eshopps Nano skimmer is Eshopps’ latest skimmer aimed at the nano crowd. Measuring at 11.5 x 2.25 x 4.5 this skimmer is tiny, but it certainly packs a punch and some neat features. Eshopps ads and a certain display…

AquaMaxx updates two new larger models of EcoMaxx protein skimmers

Two new Ecomaxx protein skimmers were outed at the Reefapalooza AquaMaxx booth in orange county this weekend. The larger EcoMaxx 400 and EcoMaxx 500 are not that different from previous models with mostly minor adjustments here and there but the…