Phantom Frag Plugs are sinister and we want them
We got excited when we saw these sinister looking frag plugs by Rock Hard Reefs. In fact, RHR dubs these dark gray ceramic plugs the Phantom frag plugs that come in either straight or angled designs. …
Sustainable Collecting Is Bringing An Explosion Of New Filipino Fish
There’s a new hub for very interesting and novel reef fish in the aquarium hobby and it’s the Philippines. This might be somewhat counterintuitive since so many of the fish for saltwater a…
ATM Aquarium Products and others sending 1 ton of reef salt, food, medications and supplies to help Irma relief
The team at ATM Aquarium Products is enlisting the help of companies like Aquatop, Exotic Marine Fish Importers Houston, V2O Foods, and MinnFinn to help stores and aquatic businesses impacted by …
Ushio Getting Into Direct LED Replacement Tubes for T5 & T8
Ushio has been one of the most respected names in quality lighting components in the aquarium hobby since the beginning of high tech lighting. Better known for their high quality metal halide bulbs, U…
BiOrb Tube aquarium has a 360-degree view, but not realistic for reef setups
biOrb Tube Aquarium are one of the latest products from OASE Living Water and is exactly what is sounds like — a clear, cylindrical tube aquarium that gives you a 360-degree view of the tank. Th…
Clear Water External Algae Scrubbers are tidy looking turf scrubbers
Algae turf scrubbers are a great way to control nutrients, but lets face it, most are not that pretty to look at. The new line of Clear Water External Algae Scrubbers are tidy units that are designed …
Sanjay’s 500 Gallon Mega Reef Tank Video
In the American reef aquarium scene, the name Sanjay Joshi is synonymous with reefing knowledge, experience, and especially brightly lit reef tanks. Also known as ‘Photon Man’ to his inner…
Top 10 Unknown Azoox Corals
The American reef aquarium hobby is always looking for the latest and greatest new strain of corals to grow and exalt. Strains of very familiar corals like the Homewrecker Acro and Kun Pao Monti may t…
Five New Products Shaping The Future Of Reef Tanks Part 4: Smart Controllable Pumps
If there’s one thing that is inherently different about water pumps we’re using today compared to ten years ago, it’s the explosion of direct current and controllable water pumps. Pr…
The Best Pictures Yet Of The Rare Greytail Angelfish
The greytail angelfish, Chaetodontoplus poliourus, is one of the newest species of marine angelfish. It’s also pretty special to us because it was the first ‘new species of angelfish&…
Mistakes Newbies Make
Literally every person I know laments over the mistakes they made in the past. Many of us fondly recall our early years in the hobby, and we also all remember the mistakes we made then. This often lea…
Want to know what it feels like to get zapped by an electric eel?
This guy knows firsthand just what the shock from an electric eel feels like — and he did it all in the name of science. Kenneth Catania put his arm out in harms way just so he could better…
Mistakes Newbies Make
Literally every person I know laments over the mistakes they made in the past. Many of us fondly recall our early years in the hobby, and we also all …
How To Program Your LED Lights For A Reef Tank
Back when we were just using T5s or metal halides, the ‘programming’ was only concerned with how long to run the lights of a given in…
Chrysiptera burtjonesi Is A Gorgeous New Damselfish From The Solomon Islands
Chrysiptera burtjonesi is a beautiful new species of damselfish which has just been described from the Solomon Islands. This damselfish is very specia…
BRS Reveals New Light Diffuser Accessory For Radion LED
Over the last five years or so the Radion LED lights from Ecotech Marine have proven themselves to be a great foundation of lighting for all sorts of …
Taking Target Feeding To The Next Level By ‘Walking’ Azoox Corals
For some time now I’ve had a deep curiosity and interest in all the corals that we don’t regularly see in our home aquariums, namely the n…
Chaetodon argentatus Butterflyfish Hybrid Spotted in Japan
So many times when we see aberrant or hybrid reef fish it’s in the setting of an aquarium livestock dealer. So it’s always a nice surprise…
Five New Products Shaping The Future Of Reef Tanks Part 3 : Smart Dosing Pumps
While we may not have been able to foresee the advent of Alkalinity Machines and Roll Filters, the need for dosing in our aquariums has been around fo…
Ralph’s Reef Tank Is A Classically Perfect Mini Reef
When we first saw Ralph’s reef tank, we were immediately transported to a time when the aesthetic of saltwater aquariums was essentially to recr…
Eheim CompactON Pumps Are GoingON A Ten Year Old Design
Eheim is a company that was once synonymous with quality and durability, with many of their Classic water pumps still in use decades into their deploy…
Can’t Say I’ve Ever Seen A Cyclo Like This One!
I like to think I’ve seen my fair share of disc and fungiid corals, I was alone in my appreciation of Lithophyllon in the early 2000s and I…
Reef Builders Destinations Tela Honduras, May 28th – June 3rd 2018
We’re excited to announce our second Reef Builders Destination trip. This time we are heading to Tela Honduras where earlier this year we fo…
Five New Products Shaping The Future Of Reef Tanks Part 2 : Filter Rolls
The reef aquarium hobby sure is moving very fast in a lot of new and interesting directions. Yesterday we discussed the advancement of automatic aquar…
Australian researcher develops ‘IVF for coral’ to help regrow reefs at scale
One thing we know, the way corals reproduce are pretty inefficient as the broadcast spawning only results in a small portion of viable larvae actually…
Custom Bashsea Twister Skimmer is one souped up foam fractitioner
There is something about the way Bashsea approaches equipment and its not subtlety. Case in point, this customer Bashsea Twister Skimmer designed for …
Unboxing Frags Rescued From The Path Of Hurricane Irma
Last week it seemed like a hurricane of biblical proportions was going to descend on Florida and ravage everyone, everything, and every aquarium in si…
Aquatop Recife all-in-one marine aquariums good but not great
Aquatop Recife is the company’s first foray into the all-in-one aquarium designed for just the marine or reef system in mind, but our first impr…
Adorable Video Perfectly Illustrates The Life Of A Coral
We came across this adorable video from Honolulu Civil Beat Inc which perfectly illustrated the life of a coral. While it may be second natu…
Blue Skeleton Majestic Angelfish Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen!
Every now and then a very special reef fish that we’ll never forget pops up on our rare fish radar, and the ‘Blue Skeleton’ Majestic Angelfish is such an example. This sensational sp…
Sea Dwelling’s Yellowfin Angelfish Looks Like He’s Been In A Few Brawls
This Black & Blue angelfish may not win any beauty contests among aberrant angelfish, but it is the first time we’ve seen this species don this kind of garb. Of the many different species of…
You’ve Never Seen A Speckled Flame Angelfish Like This Before!
Boy, even after years of writing about all the rare, unusual, hybrid and aberrant reef fish, the natural reef always has something new and special that we’ve never seen before. This speckled fla…
Sanjay’s 500 Gallon Mega Reef Tank Video
In the American reef aquarium scene, the name Sanjay Joshi is synonymous with reefing knowledge, experience, and especially brightly lit reef tanks. Also known as ‘Photon Man’ to his inner…
Ralph’s Reef Tank Is A Classically Perfect Mini Reef
When we first saw Ralph’s reef tank, we were immediately transported to a time when the aesthetic of saltwater aquariums was essentially to recreate a miniature reef. His glass box perfectly enc…
Maintaining A Super Easy Nano Reef Tank (Video)
The first thing most non-aquarist think when you tell them you have a saltwater aquarium is that it must take so much time, be very expensive, and very hard to maintain. That may have been true way ba…