SuburbanReef.com Blog

Hi everyone,
In response to numerous requests, we are working on altering our shipping policy to be product based. This will be greatly beneficial to everyone ordering on SuburbanReef.com.

There is nothing worse than buying a replacement O-ring and spending a bunch on shipping .

We expect this to be available by 5/1 at the latest.

In addition, we will also be offering free shipping on all orders over $175.

We’ll keep everyone posted as we update our site. If you have any questions please contact us at Sales@suburbanreef.com

Thanks, Brian

Anyone who has turned on a TV, radio or looked at their calendar this week realized that we had earth day. As an aquarium hobbyist and a nature fanatic I give a great deal of thought to how we can further improve the hobby to better protect our earth. To most of you the answers are obvious, but I will list some ways that we can not only improve our hobby but minimize the impact our hobby has on the environment:

Supporting Suppliers of Captive Bred aquatic life. The less aquatic life that we can harvest from our oceans the better. For the most part, marine aquatic life for the aquarium hobby is harvested from the ocean but the industry is getting more sophisticated and better at captive breeding aquatic life. For information about Captive Breeding, some information can be found through Sustainable Aquatics.
Additionally, information can be found through ORA (Oceans, Reefs and Aquariums)

Challenging manufacturers to providing ecologicaly friendly and energy efficient aquatic equipment. Through compact flourescent and T5 lighting, reef aquariums require less energy than those of metal halides. LED reef lighting however, uses even less energy, produces less heat and are fully capable of lighting a reef aquarium. The downside currently is cost, until the cost of these lights go down significantly hobbyists will continue to use the older standards. We expect to be offering these lights soon on suburbanreef.com when they are more affordable for the hobbyist.

We are proud to introduce Prodibio into our featured product line. Prodibio’s additives are by far the best additives available to reef aquarium hobbyists. All of Prodibio’s additives were designed and manufactured with the fundamental ideal that additives can be safe, ecologically friendly and beneficial to a reef aquarium. Oh yeah, Prodibio’s products ease the pain of maintaining the proper levels of trace elements and water quality. To see the products we have available, go to:
http://suburbanreef.com/productTypes.aspx?type=48&cat=11

Welcome to the SuburbanReef.com Blog! This is our first of what will be very many posts, we’ll start by explaining what you can expect in our blog over time:

News about the aquarium hobby and best practices.

Local, national and global news about our oceans and reefs.

News about SuburbanReef.com

Offers, specials and new products available on SuburbanReef.com

March 24, 2008 marks the official launch of SuburbanReef.com ! We’ve worked very hard and spent many hours loading content to our site and still have a long way to go. Our goal in 2008 is to continue to update our product lines and add additional content to the site, so you should expect many changes. If you have any inquiries or would like to purchase any items, please visit SuburbanReef.com .

In closing our first post, we thought we’d highlight an event that many of you probably already know about, the International Year of the Reef. This year marks the second International Year of the Reef (IYOR), the first was in 1997. The focus of IYOR is to raise awareness about our coral reefs and to educate people on how we can all help preserve these vital ecosystems. Please visit http://IYOR.ORG for more information.