Richard Ross’s Home Coral Breeding Video is a Recipe for All Reefers

By Jeremy Gay, ReefBuilders  Captive coral spawning is a big deal right now and represents the cutting edge of decades of trial and error when we learned first how to keep them alive, then how to frag them, and now, most importantly, how to breed them. The successes of pioneering individuals and institutions couldn’t have […]

TOMLOV DM602 is the Perfect All-Around Microscope for Reefkeeping

From ReefBuilders Microscopes are cool and have lots of uses for reefkeeping: looking at the critters in the sand, looking at the details of a coral’s surface, trying to ID pests, and more. But picking a microscope can be daunting. There are a million microscopes available that cost anywhere from about 70 dollars and into […]

Rich Ross focuses on Phosphate in the last MACNA 2014 speaker video

From Reefbuilders, by Jake Adams Local copy of video here: https://vimeo.com/124146969 “Phosphate does not mean what you think it means” is probably one of the most profound things any speaker has said about this much maligned nutrient in our reef tanks. While PO4 gets a bad rap in our tanks, nothing, not the fish, the corals, […]

2013 Marine Breeder’s Year in Review

From Reefbuilders by Matthew Pedersen  It’s the 4th annual installment of the Marine Breeder’s Year in Review (see past installments at 2010, 2011a, 2011b, and 2012) and frankly, it’s been an interesting if not arguably “slow” year for a change, and yet I’ll probably write more than ever! Breeders are pursuing all sorts of projects, but ‘success’ in terms of […]

Dr. Seuss Fish are better in pairs

From Reefbuilders By Jake Adams on Dec 05, 2013 Leave it to Rich Ross to get it in his ceph-head that it is possible to pair and breed the highly prized Dr. Seuss fish. Not only does it take an investment of time and space, but money because as you know Dr. Seuss Fish are not cheap, not […]