The Nuvo aquarium series from Innovative Marine is a hot-selling reef aquarium package which is designed to pair up with the Skkye LED tablet but it also plays especially nice with another LED aquarium light. While at Aquamart in Lakewood Colorado this weekend, we noticed they had an Ecoxotic Panorama Pro LED light nestled atop a Nuvo [...]

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Hybrids aside, Chaetodon tinkeri is the least common and arguably the coolest obtainable member of the five roaps butterflyfish – with emphasis on the word obtainable. As far as butterflyfishes go, all five species within this subgenus Roaps are hardy and acclimate well to captive life, taking prepared foods easily from the get go. Having [...]

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The DIF50XP and DIF100XP LED are two new pendants with Orphek which join a growing trend of incorporating more colors of LED in reef aquarium lights. Whereas the Ecotech Marine Radion XR30w and PacificSun LED Hyperion use a handful of discrete LEDs of different colors, the DIF50XP and DIF100XP are a rare breed of reef light with [...]

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Harry T. Tung and Jim Adelberg have been working hard to build Reef Hobbyist Magazine, their FREE quarterly publication, for 5 years now.  As Jim and Harry launched the  sixth season of RHM, they enter a new chapter with the inaugural publication of the first Chinese issue of Reef Hobbyist Magazine. Read on to learn more [...]

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  January 31st– February 6th Adee’s reef is a sunlight driven beast from South Africa First look at the Hydro Wizard Small in development by Panta Rhei Experienced aquarists consider safeguarding broodstock of endemic Hawaiian fish Red Sea reef fish beginning to trickle back into the aquarium trade JBJ Unibody 36, 54 and 108 makes [...]

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Pseudanthias privitera is a stunning medium sized, slender species of deepwater anthias known mostly from the Cook Islands. Sometimes when gorgeous reef fish like these delicate privitera anthias are shipped halfway aroudn the world to aquarium hubs, their subtle beauty doesn’t exactly show. However in these in-situ videos of Pseudanthias privitera taken at 70 meters deep [...]

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A giant amphipod measuring nearly a foot long is making the news circuit after being discovered near New Zealand at a depth of 7 kilometers. This was not an isolated occurrence as scientists were able to capture seven of these giants that measured in at 28 cm (around 11 in.) that are 10 times larger than your [...]

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Although we spend hours covering the latest lighting fixtures here on Reef Builders, nothing really comes close to actual sunlight. Adee’s aquarium is a  1340 L (355 G) reef, measuring 2oocm x 1oo cm x 67cm (78in x 40in x 26in). The tank is illuminated exclusively by skylight during the summers, although a MH/T5 fixture [...]

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