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Reef Central removes years of Seachem customer support following pulled sponsorship

Posted on November 18th by Jake Adams. 54
We here at Reef Builders like to maintain a positive tone in all of our writing but occasionally we have to bring light to very selfish and myopic actions ...
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Jellyfish-eating coral caught in the act

Posted on November 14th by Brian Blank. %
Recently scientists from Israel encountered a strange sight—a coral eating a jellyfish in the Red Sea. We saw this news posted on the BBC’s website and did a ...
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Review of the Tunze Osmolator 3155 auto top off device with nifty magnet holder

Posted on November 13th by Ryan Gripp. 9
Tunze announced that their Osmolator 3155 would be getting some upgrades, the biggest of which would be a magnet holder system that would allow you to attach it to your ...
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Petition targets 83 coral species for U.S. endangered species list protection

Posted on November 4th by Brian Blank. 6
The Center for Biological Diversity recently prepared and filed a scientific petition to have 83 coral species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The ...
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Reef Builders Celebrates 2000 Posts

Posted on November 3rd by Ryan Gripp. 9
This post, this one you are reading right now is the 2000th post that has appeared on Reef Builders. This is very exciting to see Reef Builders grow as ...
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Sicce USA: Italian born water pumps getting green card for American market

Posted on November 2nd by Jake Adams. 8
Sicce USA is the new US based distribution arm of Sicce, the Italian manufacturer of water pumps and other water moving devices. You may have become more and more ...
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Aquarium Stimulus Program: completely arbitrary giveaway of a 250 watt 10K/20K TwinArc lamp from Reefbrite

Posted on October 27th by Jake Adams. 24
So you know how normally when we have a giveaway the winner is chosen by randomly selecting from the comments? This aquarium Stimulus Program is not going down like ...
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Hands On with the NeWave water pump from Aquarium systems

Posted on October 21st by Ryan Gripp. 5
With Aquarium Systems "new" NeWave pump about to hit the American market, the pump has already pushed water for the rest of the world. Available in Europe and the UK, ...
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Are Yellow and Scopas tangs more than kissing cousins?

Posted on October 16th by Christine Williams. 3
[caption id="attachment_11114" align="aligncenter" width="575" caption="Photo by Gregory Schiemer"][/caption] Sometimes the best discoveries in science are happy accidents, and this year researchers at the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding uncovered ...

Naso brevirostris spawn caught on video

Posted on October 12th by Jake Adams. 2
While the exhibitors were busy setting up at this year's Fragstock at the Downtown Aquarium in Denver CO, we took a brief stroll through the exhibits to sneak ...