Flashback Friday: When Jake Talked About How To Increase pH Using Kalkwasser

If there’s one thing we should all do this weekend, it’s rewatch this brilliant video by the late, great Jake Adams. In the video and accompanying article, Jake nails some really fundamental points about pH, the numbers he aimed for…

Reef Builders Studio Update Video

It’s been eight months now since Jake left us and in that time, most of the questions have been about the Studio. Is it still running, has it still got corals, and why don’t we see videos from there anymore?…

Luc Adams sets up tank with legacy corals

Reef Builders content coordinator Evan Montgomery has again ventured out of the Studio, and this time to set up a tank with Jake Adams’ brother Luc. Unlike Jake, Luc is not a prolific aquarist but was gifted a Red Sea…

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…

Video: How do I get rid of Montipora-eating nudibranchs?

Montipora-eating Nudibranchs affect our team’s corals on both sides of the Atlantic, and even the world-famous Reef Builders Studio is not free of these pests. As Evan Montgomery says, a large Monitpora colony can be affected by nudibranchs but still…

The Aquascape of this Reef is Covered by Corals [Video]

In this current era of reef keeping where the emphasis is either on purely collecting coral frags, or over-engineering the aquarium into a rube goldberg machine, it’s getting increasingly hard to find a nice grove of healthy thriving coral colonies.…

The Flagship Reef Tank Thrives on Aquarium Fundamentals

The Flagship reef tank is an aquarium display we’ve been working with at the Reef Builders Studio for a little over three years and lately this tank has really been turning up. Being a six foot long peninsula style aquarium…

The Studio’s Wall of Reef Aquarium Displays [Video]

The Reef Builders Studio was built with the express purpose of being a demonstration center for all things related to reef aquariums and today we’d like to show you ‘The Wall’. Unimaginatively named the wall is a series of four different…

ReefStock Australia 2022 Is coming for Sydney!

Are you ready for ReefStock Australia? We definitely are! The long awaited Sydney show returns this August 6-7, 2022.  ReefStock Australia has been a beloved tradition in the NSW region for several years, and this year is set to be…

10 Different Skimmer in use at the Reef Builders Studio [Video]

Protein skimmers are a piece of technology which is unique to saltwater aquariums and they’ve been employed as a tool to clean the water in our hobby for decades. There’s many different ways to combine the mixture of fine air…