We’ve seen so many media reactors in the last decade – most of them are just a tube with a hose going in and out – that it’s quite hard to get ‘excited’ about a new model, until now. The…
AquaVital Marine Test 5in1 Give Quick Estimate of Calcium, Alkalinity & More
The AquaVital Marine Test 5in1 is a new test ‘strip’ from Aquarium Munster which can give a quick snapshot of basic seawater chemistry. With the Marine Test 5in1 you can get a quick, rough estimate of the Nitrite and Nitrate…
Deltec’s Concept Sumps Are Both Original and Beautiful
Deltec is a German aquarium manufacturer that is best known for their protein skimmers, and to a lesser degree their reactors and tanks. More recently the company has experienced a renewed energy in the product design department bringing us a…
Top 10 New Reef Products Introduced at InterZoo 2018
Traveling all the way to Nuremberg Germany for InterZoo is a ton of work, it ain’t cheap, but it’s oh so worth it! If you needed any indication that this is one of the most important shows for releases of…
Artificial Rock From ATS Looks Better Than The Real Thing
As long as the reef aquarium hobby has used live rock, reefers have been trying different ways to make their own. We’ve seen a lot of different offerings from ‘aragocrete’ to Real Reef rock but the new shapes we recently…
Eheim SkimMarine 100 & 300 Nano Protein Skimmers
Eheim has a pair of new nano protein skimmers called the SkimMarine 100 and larger SkimMarine 300. Both of Eheim’s new nano skimmers are designed for internal use using magnets to affix themselves to the appropriate height on the walls…
Complete Walkthrough Videos of InterZoo 2018
If you’re a regular reader of Reef Builders, there’s a good chance you’ve got a clinical case of FOMO. Fear of Missing Out is a condition you can live with, especially when we have the technology to bring you along…
Playful New Z5 & Z6 Protein Skimmers from Bubble Magus
The Bubble Magus Z5 & Z6 are a pair of new protein skimmers from the Chinese company which look like toys, but in the most playful and useful manner possible. Everything but the base of the Bubble Magus Z skimmers…
Face to Face with the $18K Debelius Angelfish
The Debelius is one of the rarest and most elusive of all the Pygmy angelfish. Despite writing about this species for nearly a decade, we had never seen a living specimen until a few weeks ago in Germany of all…
Next Gen Ultra & Platinium Heaters from AquaEL & Cobalt Aquatics
Temperature is THE most important parameter governing the chemistry and biology of our reef tanks and we really should be paying much more attention to its proper regulation. With that in min AquaEL has a whole new crop of aquarium…
