Life On Earth Would Suck Without Coral Reefs

If you’re reading Reef Builders on the regular, there’s a good chance that you wake up thinking about live corals, how to grow them better, make them more colorful, and the frags you’ll get or share with reefing friends. But…

ReefStock 2018 to Feature Three Powerhouse Presentations

Since 2008 ReefStock has maintained a high standard for our presenters and in the ten years since, ReefStock has developed a reputation for attracting some of the best speakers from across the aquarium world. We’ve featured some of the most…

Three New Species of Cryptic Zoanthids

There’s a whole wide world of zoanthids that the aquarium hobby never sees, quite literally because they live in very cryptic areas, in caves, and otherwise try to blend in. The genus Antipathozoanthus is very unique because nearly species are…

Ask Reef Builders #1: How to save your Biological Filter in a tank move or upgrade

Welcome to the first installment of ‘Ask Reef Builders’, a column where we’ll take some of your best questions and share our responses from which all our readers can learn. For years we’ve answered questions fielded through twitter, facebook and…

Top 10 New Reef Aquarium Products of 2017!

Last year was about as exciting a time to be a reefer as it was to be a reporter in this unique hobby and industry. Of course we saw the regular crop of water pumps, lights, additives and much more,…

New Reef Pulse Coral Food From Ocean Nutrition

Reef Pulse is a new complete coral food from Ocean Nutrition, one of the oldest makers of marine life diets. Rather than being aimed at any particular kind of coral, Reef Pulse includes a wide range of particle sizes to…

Things That Scare Me About The Hobby

Boo and Happy Halloween. I am not really much of a Halloween person, I am much more into Christmas, but I understand how some people really get into it. In fact, I recently learned that humans are such an overwhelmingly…

Coral Bleaching Hits Mesoamerican Reef

For the past month reports of coral bleaching along the Mesoamerican reef have been making their way to my inbox. From Cancun to Honduras it seems multiple stretches of the worlds second largest coral reef have suffered some degree of…

13 Creatures To Photograph At The Murex Bangka House Reef

Murex Bangka House Reef Guests staying at the Bangka Island hotel are in for a treat. The Murex house reef is only a fin toss away from the shore and full of interesting creatures to photograph. And regardless of where…

Australian researcher develops ‘IVF for coral’ to help regrow reefs at scale

One thing we know, the way corals reproduce are pretty inefficient as the broadcast spawning only results in a small portion of viable larvae actually surviving and growing into a mature coral. But a scientist from Australia has developed a…