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Fauna Marin’s new Ultra LPS Grow + Color

Fauna marin has a new LPS food formula that is said to increase the growth of your LPS corals. Fauna Marin lists several additional features of this food versus others including a “Soft granule” size which “protects the corals when they are eating them”. The new LPS food includes a new Trace Element and organic [...]

Fauna Marin Ultramin F filter food reformulated

Fauna Marin has reformulated their popular Ultramin F for filter feeders. Ultra Min F is a popular food additive for sponges, gorgonias and other non-photosynthetic corals as well as smaller fishes and plankton feeders. What has changed from the older version? “The particle size has a bigger range to feed a wider amount of coral [...]

ZeoMatic 2 from Fauna Marin captured on video

Do you remember that  Zeomatic 2 we showed you not to long ago? To refresh your memory it  features a self cleaning system with both water and air cleaning.  Plus, you won’t need an extra air pump as the reactor includes aquabee pumps that handle the job quite nicely. Now normally you would have to  [...]

Fauna Marin’s new Ultra Pest Control, for coral dips

Fauna Marin’s new Ultra Pest control will be available soon. And as much as we would like to think we don’t need products like this we all do at some point in our saltwater keeping lives. This Ultra Pest Control is a pest control (aka killer) or coral dip that is designed before you place your [...]

Fauna Marin’s new ZeoMatic 2 Zeolith reactor

Fauna Marin has released their new Zeo matic 2 and we should be able to place orders for it next month. This Zeomatic 2 features a self cleaning system with both water and air cleaning. You won’t need an extra air pump as the reactor includes aquabee pumps that handle the job quite nicely. The [...]

Fauna Marin’s new Reef Scape Foam for aquariums

Fauna Marin is close to releasing reef foam. This reef foam from Fauna Marin is a dark grey color and made for aquariums and terrariums and is ideal for designing and modeling of aquascape. Along with that though its great for hiding water outlets, pumps, hoses and other things in your tank you don’t want [...]

Fauna Marin blue line skimmer seen, available in January

Fauna Marin has new skimmers in the works, possibly named after their Blue Line of skimmers. These blue line skimmers are said to be 100% serviceable, all parts are removable for cleaning which Fauna Marin is touting as one of the first in the industry. The skimmers are powered by Aqua Bee pumps  fitted with [...]

Fauna Marin: LED fixture is coming at Interzoo

Fauna Marin sure looks like they will introduce a new LED based lighting fixture at Interzoo this year. As Fauna Marin’s own Claude Schuhmacher had this to say about LEDs in the future:
The next step is a complete LED lamp with special LED´s from Cree
but this will take some month maybe till Interzoo it [...]

Fauna Marin’s new Ultra Power Phos

There is a new phosphate and silicate remover available from Fauna Marin called Ultra Power Phos and made in conjunction with Bayer chemicals. One of the main ingredients Reef Builders has found out is Iron-hydroxide. Fauna Marin says that it will “rid your system of phosphates in even the most extreme case and furthermore will [...]

Fauna Marin’s new Lith filter: January 2010

Fauna Marin is testing a new Lith Filter that should be available sometime in 2010. This new filter features “high quality acrylic, dosing plug for ease of dosing Ultra Bio, built in flow control (no messy external ball valve)”, and the pump is easily removed from the base. A North Carolina Fish farm is the [...]