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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
1d 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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Reef Builders
2d 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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Reef Builders
2d 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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Reef Builders
3d 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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Reef Builders
3d 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
5d 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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Reef Builders
6d 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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1w ago
The Golden Assessor, Assessor flavissimus, has always been something of an oddball fish, not only because of its beautiful coloration, but due to the behavioral differences that it gladly presents in home aquariums. A member of the basslet family, these shy fish spend a lot of their time hovering in caves and recesses in rockwork,…
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Reef Builders
1w ago
The world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching event, according to NOAA scientists. This is the fourth global event on record and the second in the last 10 years. Bleaching-level heat stress, as remotely monitored and predicted by NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch (CRW), is extensive across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean basins. CRW’s…
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1w ago
The Dominican Republic has formally committed to protecting 30.8 percent of its waters, creating marine protected areas six years ahead of the intended goal. The landmark declaration makes the Dominican one of only a handful of countries in the world to have formally committed to protecting over 30 percent of its waters, making good Global…
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