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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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Coral Cryobank being developed to preserve the diversity of threatened coral species

Posted on October 26th by Brian Blank. 2
The Coral Cryobank is the first global effort to help preserve coral species from the world’s struggling reefs that is being spearheaded by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). ...
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Indonesia to set quotas on coral trade

Posted on October 23rd by Brian Blank.
This week Indonesia announced plans to begin setting quotas on coral trade in an effort to preserve its coral reefs. The country has seen the negative impact of destructive ...
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Two Little Fishes ad stirs debate among reef addicts

Posted on October 22nd by Ryan Gripp. 23
There has been an advertising ad that has been making the rounds in the print world. The ad asks you "Do You Have Trouble Getting it Up" was printed ...
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Sybon Sea Salt says it mixes crystal clear

Posted on October 20th by Ryan Gripp. 10
Sybon salt is a new "advanced engineered synthetic sea salt" on the market. Called Sybon Premium, it says it "contains perfect balance of all major, minor and 70 trace ...
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Yellow Assessor Basslets (Assessor flavissimus) available again from ORA

Posted on October 16th by Ryan Gripp. 5
Yellow Assessors Basslets (Assessor flavissimus) have been bred in captivity by ORA before but they've recently gotten productive enough to start shipping these to stores. Up until very ...
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Aquarium Obsessed out of Business? Sfiligoi gets new US distribution

Posted on October 15th by Ryan Gripp. 5
Aquarium Obsessed was a distributor for a lot of well known products. They were until they went out of business, or at least it appears that way. Aquarium Obsessed ...
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Marine Depot takes gloves off, issues Best Price Guarantee

Posted on October 13th by Ryan Gripp. 5
Marine Depot (disclosure: they sponsor RB) which is the largest marine supplier in the United States has a program that few people have known about. It's their ...
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“My Miami” Chalice Frag over $1800 up on eBay

Posted on October 13th by Ryan Gripp. 17
The "My Miami" chalice. How much would you pay for the above mother colony? You know where we're going with this don't you? This is a " My Miami ...
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Giant mucus “blobs” plague Mediterranean Sea

Posted on October 9th by Brian Blank. 2
Like a script from a horror movie giant and potentially deadly blobs of both dead and living organic matter are on the rise in the Mediterranean Sea. These mucus like ...