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Have you ever wondered why so many fish are horizontally compressed? Do you see beautiful clams for sale on-line but when you get them they are bland? Why do so many wrasse have horizontal stripes? Why do seahorses swim with their heads down?
Good news if your a Ecotech marine fan, their new model the MP20 is finally shipping to retailers and distributors and most if all pre-orders should be arriving soon to your door. Unlike the MP40 series, the MP20 is a perfect sized water mover for your nano aquarium or larger, just to recap it comes [...]
Xwave has released a new line of wave pumps, the series 3800 takes features from Tunze, including a propeller size head and low wattage usage. Our question is of course how much is pricing going to hit at? Pushing up to 1,220 GPH, this pump would be great for a 50 gallon or higher tank. [...]
ATB just raised the bar another notch with thier newest ATB XL external protein skimmer. This thing is a beast, having a bubble plate 12″ in diameter and the neck reaching 7.5″ in diameter. Reaching 32″ tall, the base is over 19″ in diameter. No word on a price for this bad boy.
Apparently there was a lot of confusion about the new lighting types Elos released at Interzoo. We stated earlier that the Elos power pendants would be coming stateside soon. While that being true what we did not state is the new Manta bracket, the Manta bracket is the bracklet that links two elos power lights [...]
Tunze decided to release retail MSRP pricing for the new stream 2 pumps. These pumps are the next generation pumps destined to replace the older legacy stream pumps. We already reported on prices for the 3 Tunze stream 2 pumps that aren’t controllable. However that leaves 3 more pumps that are controllable, the 6105 (3,434 [...]
Fungimarin is a special treatment for marine ornamental fish against fungus (e. g. Saprolegnia) and their accompanying secondary bacterial infections. Visible signs of fungal infection are cotton-wool like tufts.
Gyromarin is a special treatment for marine ornamental fish against skin worms (Gyrodactylus), gill worms (Dactylogyrus) and tapeworms (Cestodes). Gill worm infestation results in an increased respiratory rate. Ornamental fish with tapeworm infection frequently lose weight rapidly despite normal eating habits. Skin worm infestation will cause fish to attempt to rid themselves of the parasites [...]
Floximarin is based on the active ingredient sarafloxacin and acts against bacteriel infections like Pseudomonas, Aeromonas, Edwardsiella and Felxibacter. Infected fish show Skin and scale loss, swelling, eruptions ranging up to crater-like depressions, wounds with and without reddening of the surrounding tissue, sores, fin erosion, decelerated or accelerated movement, careening movements, cramping general darkening of [...]
Ektomarin is a universal treatment against most infections of marine ornamental fish. like protozoa (e. g. Cryptobia, Cryptocarion), bacteria (e. g. Flexibacter) and fungus (e. g. Saprolegnia). ektomarin may also be used for the desinfection of newly added fish, decorative objects, etc.
The particular combination of active ingredients in ektomarin results in a mild and long-lasting [...]
