Reef Builders - The Source for Reef Keeping Information

Since we are living in the 21st century what is the current rage? Instead of actually saving money and testing your water yourself. Reef Builders are actually (gasp) sending it out via mail order to a company and they in turn will send you a nice complete test result back. You of course are thinking this might be a great idea, however before you run and jump off the bridge into nitrate regent you might want to know the price, $34.99. To spread the word around about this service, Aquarium Water Testing (what an original name), decided to test “all the salt mixes” to determine their specific parameters. This of course was only done to generate buzz and viral marketing. Being an internaionally read blog that we are, we wouldn’t want to disappoint you by not publishing their findings. We are of course staying on track as a blog and giving you the read link.

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Maintaining good water quality is a foregone conclusion in fishkeeping, but it cannot be stressed long and hard enough when it comes to keeping corals. Perhaps it is not surprising then that some enthusiasts adopt almost clinical levels of cleanliness in their aquariums, with no detectable impurities in the water.

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Released: Marine Enterprises Crystal Sea Marinemix Salt Mix

Released: 24 inch Current USA Nova Extreme 2×24 watt T5 HO 10K/460nm

Unique and Rare 2 Color Lobster caught probably not reef safe

75 Gallons of pure reefness and update to my reef aquarium

Bristle Worm Removal from Saltwater Aquariums

Man grows corals in his basement to support his reef business

Georgia Aquarium gets 2 new whale sharks

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A quick video we found of a water change, some things could be corrected, but overall this was a good video. They might want to mix in the salt in longer to get a better mix in. Also there are a few cuss words in the music playing in the background. NSFW (not safe for work or kiddos)

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Divers off Palm Beach caught a rare glimpse of an underwater spectacle not often seen on tape. Susan Gardner shot video of barrel sponges spawning on the Breakers Reefs just off the coast of Palm Beach.

The cloudy water is the male sponge; and the thick matter is the female producing eggs. The barrel spawning typically happens only once a year and rarely is it caught on tape.

“The sponges start spawning after the full moon in may and they stimulate other sponges downstream so it’s an all or nothing every sponge that gets hit with a water column with sperm and eggs in it starts producing.”

Angel and butterfly fish were among the other species that can be seen swimming near the sponges.

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Giant octypuss vs shark

This video, courtesy of the Seattle Aquarium, shows what happened after the keepers moved a giant octopus into an aquarium containing five-foot sharks. In short; octopus and sharks do not get along with each other [2:02]

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3:02PM CST UPDATE: Fix being applied…
2:24PM CST UPDATE: FILE FIXED. Sounds works.

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Finally, converted into standard flash format. Here they are for your viewing pleasure. Excuse the newbie of recording my fish tank. NOTE: No other pumps are on in my tank, not even the tunze you see in the upper right hand of the aquarium. I am working on a file with/sound too.

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So I finished the video of the new hydor pumps, sadly I need to get a converter for you all. The total files is well over 1gb!
Anyways, while your waiting patiently for those videos. Ken wanted a picture of all the new Hydor Pumps side by side.

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