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The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog provide us with the inside scoop on the saltwater aquarium industry. Ryan Gripp founded Reef Builders. Established in 2006, Reef Builders covers the aquatics industry for keeping saltwater tanks.
Reef Builders
2h ago
Whether you are in a coral acquisition phase, or you just want to add some new life to your aquarium, Top Shelf Aquatics’ new “Build Your Reef” membership program gives you a lot of bang for your buck. The membership concept is not new – however – Top Shelf Aquatics gets it right by allowing…
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2h ago
Launch is the latest tempting addition to the Hydros controller range from Coralvue which combines a lot of useful control and monitoring features into one single box. Our three main monitoring needs are temperature, pH, and salinity, and Launch comes with a temperature probe and pH probe and has a port for a salinity probe,…
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10h ago
The weekend always gets us in coral shopping mood, and this week these outrageous Homophyllia bowerbanki stole our glance. Easy to keep, easy to frag, former “Acanthastrea” bowerbanki are well-behaved, rarely suffer pests or diseases, and are available in myriad collectible colors. They’re the perfect LPS coral! And we’ve featured some of the best of…
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Reef Builders
2d ago
Neptune Systems has launched a new version of its popular DOS dosing pump called DOS QD. With the same two-head form factor and aesthetic design as the previous model, the new DOS QD comes in a darker, more modern grey color but importantly, it’s quieter too. Up to four times quieter than the old DOS…
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3d ago
Here are five of the best fish and invertebrates to sift the sand in your reef aquarium and keep the substrate clean Chalk Goby, Valenciennea sexguttata Chalk gobies are attractive, very peaceful bottom-dwelling fish that sift the substrate to find food. They work tirelessly, taking in mouthfuls of fine coral sand and aragonite sand, and…
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3d ago
For us, one of the biggest benefits that ICP testing brought to the reefing hobby was not just the ability to test your aquarium’s saltwater, it was the ability to test the source water too, the pure, freshwater we use to make up synthetic salt mixes and to top-off evaporation. Reverse Osmosis and deionization are…
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4d ago
At the Reefing USA show in STL, I encountered some unique specimens that caught my eye at Gabe Pommier’s booth, Oceanic Gardens. He brought two varieties of Stereonephthya, which before the show I had only seen online. Many of you may be familiar with this species via the circulation of the famous “Koji Wada pink…
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4d ago
Mangroves are not only super important in ocean environments, but they can make cool natural greenery additions to open-topped reef aquariums too. But where do you start? And how do you go from a bare 6″ propagule in your LFS to a healthy tree growing out of your tank? The Reef Builders team brings you…
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Reef Builders
6d ago
Sir Galahad searched for the Holy Grail, Ponce de Leon the Fountain of Youth, and Indiana Jones for the Arc of the Covenant, like them, we hobbyists search for something that at times seems just as unobtainable: the perfect reef tank. This is the quest that most of us start as soon as we get…
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1w ago
Just when you thought Scolys couldn’t get any more collectible than they already are, this Red Bounce Scoly turns up for sale on Corals.com, courtesy of Live Corals Australia. Except for the Bubble Coral, Plerogyra sinuosa, which may inflate its vesicles in the daytime on the reef for predator protection, corallimorphs like Rhodactis mushrooms and…
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