Today Red Sea has released details on its latest aquarium launch, the Max Nano G2 XL. Like the Max Nano and Max Peninsula, the G2 XL is an All-in-One plug-and-play reef system, incorporating 50-watt app-controlled LED lighting, an ATO, a…
How To Set Up A Nano Reef Tank In One Day
We’re celebrating the life of Reef Builders’ late, great Managing Editor Jake Adams this week, as it is one year since he passed away in October 2022. Jake built the Reef Builders Studio so that he could create some great…
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…
Blue Light Nano Video and Answering Your Most FAQ
Some types of reef tanks require a regular maintenance schedule with careful attention to details, dosing, chemistry and plenty of cleaning of the glass, skimmer, detritus removal and water changes. Other setups like our Red Sea nano reef tank are…
Two Year Update of the 1-Day Nano Reef Tank Build
We love new and exciting reef aquarium gear as much as the next diehard hobbyist and it’s literally the lifeblood of the Reef Builders blog. But at the end of the day our main goal with reef aquariums has always…
500 Day Update of the One Day Nano Reef [Video]
It’s been a good long interval since we did an update on our one-day nano reef tank build but this tank has been absolutely coasting. Part of the reason for the delay is that we did an update at 300…
Top 10 Tips for an EASY & Successful Nano Reef Tank
There’s never been a better time to get into miniature reef aquariums, and setting up a small nano tank is a great way to get started. Reef tanks used to be mystical, magical glass boxes of reef biology but since…
JBJ Neon Cube is Quite a Fancy Nano Tank
The new Neon Cube line of nano aquariums from JBJ may have been designed mostly with GloFish in mind, but these are going to go much further than genetically modified fish. With all the super fluorescent strains of corals we…
LED Nano Reef from AquaMedic is a huge hit at InterZoo 2010
The striking nano reef aquarium pictured above is a demonstration tank that AquaMedic had built simply to show off a few of their products. Who could have known that by the time AquaMedic integrated their new Nanoprop 5000, Turboflotor 500…
