ARKA Vida Dosing Computer is ready for reef aquarium deployment

The Vida dosing computer from ARKA really caught our attention when it was first revealed about a year ago. Since that time we’ve seen the units displayed at trade shows around the world but ARKA didn’t seem ready for a full…

ARKA Vida GT doser seen in the wild

The ARKA Vida GT doser is quite simply the most ambitious dosing pump system that has yet been conceived for the home aquarium. The Vertex Libra pushed the envelope a decent amount with stepper motors, high quality dosing heads and…

ARKA Vida GT doser also incorporates magnetic stirrers

The use of dosing pumps for aquariums is on the rise and German company ARKA wants in on the action. Their new ARKA Vida GT doser is one of the few German-made dosing pump systems made specifically for aquarium use…

Microbe Lift Coral Food Plus is the nutritional kitchen sink

Coral Food Plus by Microbe Lift is a gastronomic smorgasbord to feed all your corals with a huge diversity of food items. Microbe Lift drafted the recipe for Coral Food Plus to include everything that all corals might need and want,…

Microbe-Lift Herbtana and Artemiss “Pay it Forward” giveaway

We’re all about giving here at Reef Builders and thanks to the generosity of Microbe-Lift, we are giving away a twin-pack of Microbe-Lift’s Artemiss and Herbtana — natural expellants for bacterial and parasitic diseases. Not only are we giving these…

Microbe-Lift Reef Salt coming to market soon

Microbe-Lift Reef Salt is coming out on the market within the next six months aimed at offering quality, pharmaceutical-grade ingredients with all the major, minor, and trace elements required by our reef inhabitants. Microbe-Lift and its parent company, Ecological Laboratories, is well…

Herbtana microbe-lift the herbal immune-stimulating enhancer

We suppose it was only a matter of time before a “herbal” additive was made for our marine aquariums. Although we haven’t tried this new product called Herbtana, it advertised to reduce: “skin flukes(gyrodactylus), gill flukes (Dactylogyrus), Ich(ichthyophthirius multifillis), oodinum,…