Celebrating the end of the week we have a wonderful Friday variety post for you. First off is an incredible video of a baby great white shark that was rescued by a group of surfers at Venice Beach in California. It appears the 3-4 foot shark was caught on a fishing line and brought to [...]

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Editor’s Note: Every so often we like to go and take a peek into the archive. We thought we’d share this post we did back in June 2008 doing what we do best — teasing you with the latest and greatest! Here is the link to the original post. Take this with a grain bucket [...]

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Fluval’s new push into saltwater aquatics, is not stopping with just Sea marine salt. They have unveiled a new line of additives for saltwater aquariums.  Fluval’s Sea additives cover the gamut with trace elements including Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium, Iodine, Strontium, as well as a “all-in-one” additive called “Trace Elements”. Sea Trace Elements has “11 key [...]

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Scientists has achieved a major breakthrough in fishing sustainability on coral reefs which could play a vital role in preventing their collapse. The researchers demonstrate how overfishing can generate a predictable sequence of events that lead to the collapse of reef ecosystems.

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House of Fins and Greenwich Aquaria are two of the finest retail aquarium stores in the country which we have written about extensively over the years – only LiveAquaria and Old Town Aquarium do as much shaking down of rare marine aquarium livestock. Even if they don’t live in Connecticut, regular readers of Reef Builders [...]

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It’s always our pleasure to see rare deep water species start showing up in aquarium trade more recently. This time is not a shocking stripe color basslet such as the Candy, but a lesser seen Lipogramma klayi as it is restricted to Curacao. This time the fish is imported by Crazy Aquarium, one of the [...]

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Modular LED is taking the pain out of putting together DIY LED aquarium lights. DIY has always been a huge component in the hobby and many people have been doing their own Frankenstein rigs of LED lights. Anyone that’s put together a DIY system will tell you the cost, time and knowledge to do it [...]

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Sharks are in big trouble on the Great Barrier Reef and worldwide, according to an Australian-based team who have developed a world-first way to measure rates of decline in shark populations.

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