Some “Light Conversation”- Lightfair 2010 and the LED Revolution

It’s no secret that the crew here at Reef Builders are huge fans of LED lighting. Seems like not a day goes by when we’re not breaking something new on this evolving technology. It’s a fact- LED technology is not…

Fauna Marin LPS pellet coral food quickly eaten by a Scolymia australis

The LPS Pellet coral food by Fauna Marin sure seems to elicit a strong feeding response in this Scolymia australis. As you can see in the video above by our sponsor Cherry Corals, within less than 90 seconds of sprinkling…

Video of Mame Design’s 2nd generation Eco-Light with 49 watts of RGB and Yellow LEDs

Without question, the Mame eco-light is the most serious effort we’ve seen put into an RGB LED aquarium light. In case you may not be familiar, nearly all the high powered LED reef lights are getting their strength from high…

Tricolor scopas tang video of a large captive specimen swimming calmly at Southwest Marines

The Tricolor tang we shared with you a couple of weeks back was cooperative for both the still and video cameras. It took a while for this large captive specimen living at Southwest Marines to relax with our camera in…

Red Dragon 4 supercar water pump from Royal Exclusiv, video walkthrough by Klaus Jansen

The Red Dragon 4 water pump from Royal-Exclusiv is perhaps the highest performance water pump ever created by an aquarium company. Granted, this device is currently as useful as a nuclear warhead waiting for the cold war to come to…

Sfiligoi Astra ultra-flat design LED reef light

The Astra LED light fixture made by Sfiligoi was one of the more attractive and eye-catching fixtures that we saw in the clamp-on light category at InterZoo 2010. The fiber-optic side accent is novel and the profile of the fixture…

Video of the X-inout in action at the Xaqua InterZoo booth

X-aqua X-Inout device  instantly struck us as one of the most innovative and potentially very popular marine aquarium products of InterZoo 2010. The X-inout looks inocuous enough but something about the fluid dynamics of the return part of the device…

Sprung Reactor: Julian walks us through the KW Reactor 300

The Sprung Reactor is what we are affectionately calling the new KW Reactor 300 with the novel sprinkler head mixing device. Although we jokingly gave Two Little Fishies some ribbing for the KW Reactor 300 before we saw it in…

“Scribbled” lemonpeel pygmy angelfish hybrid from Reborn Aquarium raises the bar for Centropyge morphs

The scribbled lemonpeel pygmy angelfish hybrid in the video above is one of the most gorgeous lemonpeel morphs we have ever seen and it is certainly on par with the fabled Tygerpyge specimen. Believe it or not, this is the…

Orca Pro II Skimmer from MyReef Creation: a mega review for a jumbo protein skimmer

In the latter part of 2009 My Reef Creation released the new lines of Orca Pro skimmers featuring the needlewheel design and pumps of Reeflow.  The Orca Pro-I unit is designed for systems of up to 500 gallon and retails…