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Not sure if anyone has been here yet or not. I pass it all the time on the way to work so I finally stopped in one saturday. They are located at 6727 W. Archer, Chicago, Illinois 60638. It's a east of Harlem, south of the Stevenson. Anyway, I'm sure it is starting off small, and their facebook...

Anyone else going to watch this documentary once it is released on Netflix tonight? Here's a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6fHA9R2cKI

My container of New Life Spectrum is finally almost out, and so I'm debating on if I should get it again, or if there is a better dry food out there. So I figured I'd ask what everyone here is feeding their fish. I feed frozen every now and then, but I generally prefer to use a dry food most of...

Here's yet another breakthrough in captive bred fish. https://reefbuilders.com/2016/10/20/biota-marine-successfully-raises-captive-bred-coral-beauty-angelfish/ Probably one of my favorite angelfish too. Great personalities and great colors. One of the most commonly-known reef-safe ones too.

Another great step in aquacultured animals. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/commercially-aquacultured-fire-shrimps-on-the-way Fire shrimps are one of my favorite invertebrates and I already have two in my tank. If these were available when I first got into the hobby, I would have gotten...

https://reefbuilders.com/2016/08/04/mandarin-goby/ A new group is working on bringing captive bred Mandarins back to the market since ORA stopped. Hopefully their prices are competitive with wild ones to push the market. It'd be great if the distributors would artificially raise the price of...

I posted about the blue tangs last week, and now I bring you more news, captive bred royal grammas! https://reefbuilders.com/2016/07/25/captive-bred-royal-gramma/ This adds another extremely popular aquarium fish to the list.

https://reefbuilders.com/2016/07/20/captive-bred-blue-tang/ Now if only this info had come out before Finding Dory was released, they could have used the movie to push awareness but either way it's a great achievement. They should reach out to Disney for sponsorship or to do a joint thing for...

Anyone watching Shark Week yet? I've only seen the Tiger Beach episode so far, but it was definitely really interesting to see those sharks in a way that is different. Currently watching the Monster Mako one and it's also really cool to see such little seen sharks. I'm glad they have been going...

Just curious if anyone out there has made some homemade magnetic frag racks out of magnets and eggcrate? What magnets did you use and how did you seal them? I'm looking at making a couple cheaper racks instead of buying some acrylic ones while all my corals are in my temporary storage tank...

To start, I bought a brand new Marineland Rimless 60G Cube from Aquapros. I wasn't a fan of the stand they made for it, so I decided to build my own and build a storage cabinet to go behind it. The cabinet will store my electronics, my ATO, and all my other random things. To start, the new...

So I'm currently looking at setting up a new system, and this time I plan on doing pure dry rock and let it do a long cycle. My question is what dry rock should I get? I've been looking at a few different providers, and don't know which one has the nicest looking rock. The three I've been...

http://www.reef2rainforest.com/2016/01/19/banggai-cardinalfish-to-be-listed-under-esa-endangered-species-act/?utm_source=2016_01_22+CORAL+eNewsletter&utm_campaign=2015_11_13+CORAL&utm_medium=email They've been talking about it for awhile, but it finally happened. The first saltwater aquarium...

It's been awhile since I've posted my tank, so I'm going to post some updates. I've been struggling with high nitrates and phosphates for awhile. I've been running biopellets for a few months now, and nothing. I had a refugium but it wasn't doing anything, GFO wasn't working. I stopped feeding...

So who is gonna be the first person to set up one of these tanks? Or does someone already have one? http://reefbuilders.com/2015/12/16/artfully-acrylic-reef-crest-series/ I think they can definitely be a unique tank setup, just would require some interesting ideas. Would anyone be interested...

So I've been running an Eshopps S-120 Cone Skimmer on my 75g tank for well over 6 months now. It's been running great. Get a nice dark skimmate that stinks up my bathroom for quite awhile when I empty it. Anyway, for the last week or so, it's been overflowing, and no matter what I do, it won't...

Since the idea was brought up, and it was definitely pretty cool, I decided I'd take charge and set up the White Elephant Gift Exchange for this year's Holiday Party. I'm going to copy the rules from last year since they seemed to work out pretty well. If you're interested in participating...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carmendrahl/2015/11/18/some-3d-printed-objects-are-toxic-to-fish/ Thought this was an interesting article so i decided to share.

http://reefbuilders.com/2015/11/10/yellow-tang-update/ According to this article, the breeding is for research only and the institute has no intention of breeding for sale. However, they do plan on making their methods public so it could be possible for ORA or other companies to try and take on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JNLwlcPBPI The first official trailer for Finding Dory has just been released. Time to start getting ready to help new people get into the hobby correctly.