How much would you spend on an Australian Scolymia coral? $100, $400, maybe even $500? If the 500 is is upper limit, I’m afraid you’ll be losing out on this beauty. With just over three hours left on this ebay auction for the Insane Aussie Scolymia, the current bid is siting on $560.

The vendor has [...]

Via a recent twitter update (which has since been removed), it seems as if reefbuilders.com is undergoing a bit of a redesign. Either that or they’ve been hacked or something else is up with this popular blog. This is what we found following the link from the tweet.
Can anybody shed some light on this?
Update: This [...]

If you’re looking for a great in depth read and a few big words don’t scare you*, be sure to check out the latest edition of Advanced Aquarist Online Magazine. I’ll be tucking into it a little later today but from the table of contents, it looks like another great issue.
In the December issue you’ll [...]

Fellow nanoreefer and friend, OwlBassboy, recently posted on his site about other reefkeepers saying that nanoreefs are cruel. Seems like these people are closed minded…
I personally do not see anything wrong with my stock being kept in a nano, I have 3 fish, a flameback dwarf angel, ocellaris clown and a pyjama cardinal. Would you [...]

We had previously mentioned that the crew behind ZEOvit, Korallenzucht, had announced new products. The new supplement, Pohl’s Xtra Special is now available.
There is still no real information about the product aside from the product description and we assume it will take a few months to hear from hobbyists what affects this product has. Could [...]

The winner of the recent EcotechMarine competition has been announced — and what a funny video it is! Well done to Scott B for the very entertaining video centered around his 20g mixed reef.
Enjoy the video.

To see the rest of the entries, check out the EcoTechMarine media gallery.

David over at FistaFiltration has shared some photos of a new nano aquarium concept they are working on. They are still busy testing them and hope to have them available in the new year.
We will post more details about this interesting looking system as soon as we have them.

Our good friend over at GlassBox-Design.com recently published an interview he did with Julian Sprung. Julian has some interesting things to say, but his comment on American’s having led the way in terms of nano reef keeping really got me thinking.
Nano reefs and nano aquariums are an interesting trend. They’ve really started to take off [...]

It’s no secret that the LED aquarium lighting market is really starting to grow, it seems as if a new fixture pops up everyday. While browsing various LED options available, I stumbled across Thortekand must say some of their fixtures look really impressive – look out for the “Sports car type back lights”!
The latest product, [...]

Rumour has it that Fauna Marin might be unveiling an all LED lighting unit at Interzoo 2010. There are no details yet – but if these new units are anything like their T5 Star Fire pendants, we’re going to see an amazing high end LED lighting system. Here is hoping they will opt for a [...]