Reef Builders Studio Tank gets Aquatic Art Appraisal

Evie met up with Cris Capp at the Reef Builders Studio and they put together a cool video examining the coral growth in one of the Studio’s peninsula display tanks. Cris owns a store called Aquatic Art and he and…

Grzegorz Grebosz’s Acropora are Probiotic Perfection

We admit to following and admiring this aquarium for a while, and although it’s existed in several guises since 2015, the bright, tabling acros and pristine, immaculately clean tank always manage to keep it looking like new. We caught up…

Malaysia’s Largest Inland Coral Farm Uses Radio Frequency ID Tags

Earlier this year I was invited to speak at The Garden and Aquatic Show in Singapore. This show also featured quite a few highlights of interest for reefkeeping enthusiasts. One of those was a marine aquascaping contest. All participants started…

Flashback Friday – Remember When Jake Did This To An Acropora?

Jake Adams had so many cool, original ideas while at the Reef Builders Studio, and when we were reminiscing all the good times we came across this post about a crazy, but successful regraft of a “Derek’s Indecision” Acropora back…

Flower Bomb is a Newly Released Tabling Acro from Top Shelf Aquatics

This coral was originally imported from Australia and hand-picked as a pale, small mini colony with loads of potential. I have hand-picked many pieces from various suppliers throughout the years but this one really stood out as something that could…

Take part in TSA’s Coral Smackdown Grow Out Competition

Are you good at growing corals? Are you good at growing Acropora? Do you think you’re good enough to take your skills to competition level? Then this Top Shelf Aquatics/Reef Builders collab competition was tailor-made for you. What’s the competition?…

We just can’t get enough of the TSA Fruity Splice Acropora

We’ve known about this spliced acro for a while now, but after Remy went to see it in person we just can’t stop thinking about it. We reached out to Top Shelf’s Kevin Burda for more info on his discovery. …

How do you get rid of Acropora Eating Flatworms?

The Reef Builders Studio is a coral paradise but with so many potential host colonies it’s also a paradise for pests. In his last video, Evan Montgomery showed how he tackles and “manages,” Monitipora eating Nudibranchs, and now it’s the…

Colonial tunicates are cool but should be avoided

While scanning the Acro tank in our LFS we noticed this overgrowing the base of a colony. It’s an ascidian, a colonial tunicate, possibly Botrylloides leachii, which has spread over this Indonesian maricultured Acropora in a matter of just weeks.…

Acropora walindii, another deep water SPS jewel

Over the years, as you probably noticed, we have a thing for deep water Acros. Our love for them has never stopped growing mainly because they are just the best Aquarium Acropora because they just bloom and thrive in reef…