The E-Lite 3 from Elos is the third generation of LED lights from the famed Italian aquarium company. Looking as delicious as ever, the Elos E-lilte 3 features interchangeable tops for easy color matching with your room or aquarium decor and better yet, user replaceable LEDs. Elos has made the E-Lite 3 so accessible that you [...]

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The roughtongue bass, Protonogrammus martinicensis, is one of the nicest rare reef fish that can be found in American waters. With a distribution spanning most of the Caribbean including the Gulf of Mexico, the roughtongue bass is actually one of the most common fish found at a depth between 200 to 400 feet at some [...]

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Author: Ron Vave
Source: Fiji Times
May 8, 2012

"Most hard corals in Fiji and the world are colourful on the outside but when cracked open or broken, will reveal a white skeleton.

One of the exceptions to this is the blue coral (scientific name: Heliopora coerulea), which has a blue skeleton inside, made of aragonite and iron salts which gives it its blue pigmentation.

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Author: Juliet Eilperin
Source: The Washington Post
May 7, 2012

"Local and regional authorities in Indonesia caught 33 poachers last week who had taken sharks, manta rays and sea cucumbers from a marine protected area that scientists have identified as one of the sea’s most important sites. But after confiscating their illegal catch and gear, the patrol officers had to let them go.

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The Razor LED from MaxSpect is an impossibly thin LED light fixture with brand name LEDs, some degree of controllability and a specially designed passive cooling heatsink which helps the Razor LED maintain its figure. Details of the MaxSpect Razor LED are scant since it won’t be officially unveiled until InterZoo 2012, but we’ve got enough to [...]

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Jobs, livelihoods and ecotourism industries can benefit from having a diverse supply of weed-eating fish on the world's coral reefs, marine researchers say. Despite their small size, relative to the sharks, whales, and turtles that often get more attention, herbivorous fish play a vital role in maintaining the health of coral reefs, which support the livelihoods of 500 million people worldwide, say researchers.

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When a company does something right, I think Reef Builders readers ought to know about it.  Case in point – you can probably get glass from many different places.  I had a need for dozens of custom cut glass pieces; custom lids for the used tanks I had amassed over the years.  Of course, I [...]

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The Aqua Special NANO series protein skimmers may have the word nano attached to it but this Polish-built skimmer is rated for aquariums from 100 to 500 liters (26 to 132 US gallons). Using the standard features we like in skimmers — bubble diffuser, silencer, skimmate overflow guide and presumably some sort of way to adjust [...]

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