Don’t throw away those dead coral skeletons as we have seven useful ways for your aquarium corals to live on: 1. Use as home decor In the 1970s and 80s coral skeletons made popular home decor items, especially in bathrooms.…
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Flashback Friday: When Jake looked back at 10 years of EcoTech Marine
This week’s Friday Flashback is a double flashback, as this now 10-year-old post written by Reef Builders Managing Editor Jake Adams itself, looked back to what was then a 10-year-old EcoTech Marine. Who remembers the early (slightly noisy!) MP40s, the…
How to Set Up a Nano Reef Tank
We’ve really been feeling it lately for nano tanks. We run much larger tanks for surgeonfish, but while we’re waiting for our Acros to grow in those we like to have some low-cost fun and set up nano tanks as…
Automatic Top-Off Systems, Reservoirs, and Dehumidifiers
One of the crucial aspects of having a successful reef tank is having the tank be as stable as possible and this is especially true in terms of salinity. But when setting up a new system, one of the aspects…
Reverse Osmosis and Deionization explained
When I was growing up, we were actually taught computer programming in school using punch cards that needed to be inserted into the computer. It was extremely rudimentary and slow, but it did teach me one valuable lesson: garbage in,…
Beginners: Frequently Asked Questions on Wavemakers
It’s that time again when we answer all of the questions that get fired at us on a particular subject, even the most basic ones. Here are our answers to all the most basic questions we’re asked each week on…
Would Someone PLEASE Make an Air Silencer from Silicone?
As far as miracle-materials for the aquarium hobby goes, you don’t have to look too far to see the monumental benefits of silicone. Firstly, silicone is instrumental in sealing panes of glass into boxes we like to call aquariums, but…
A Multilevel Display for Shrooms, Chalices and Anemones [Video]
In our latest video we showed off the new incarnation of our Mode retail rack system which has been an integral part of the Reef Builders Studio for several years now. The multitiered aquarium system was initially purposed as a…
Carbon Doser V2 Review: Precise CO2 Dosing in the Wrong Direction
The Carbon Doser V2 is the second version of a very ingenious way to meter out pressurized gas, in aquarium applications this means carbon dioxide. To this day the overwhelming majority of carbon dioxide regulators use some kind of solenoid…
Interzoo 2022 is Facing Headwinds with Missing Exhibitors
Interzoo is the world’s biggest pet trade show, which before the global pandemic, was held every other year in Nuremberg, Germany. In 2018 the show covered 13 giant halls that were large enough for our own team to take to…
