vortech-pump-controllers-1 A trip down memory lane of Ecotech Marine VorTech pump controllers As Ecotech Marine celebrates ten years of business in the reef aquarium scene, I am reminded of how I came to know the once scrappy three young founders Tim, Pat, Justin and first employee Mark. The company cut its teeth on reef tank product engineering with a magnetically stirred kalk stirrer with a built in
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Cobalt NeoFlow gets groped and handled at ReefStock

Rodney Ridikas reef from Australia has some serious potential

Rodney Ridikas reef

It is always a lot of fun to see reef aquarium mature from a system filled with frags to a reef aquarium stocked with massive colonies. It is also much fun predicting how a system will mature, and if it will mature as a successful system. At this point Rodney Ridikas reef is not yet Read More

Whatafather reef from Hong Kong is a thing of beauty

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There are tanks that are awesome for their fish and coral, and then there are tanks that are awesome because of their cleanliness along with the fish and coral. The Reef of Hong Kong reef forum user Whatafather definitely falls into the latter characterization. Like the “Reef in the Sky” , Whatafather’s reef is about as Read More

Three way LED stand off comparing the GHL Mitras, Ecotech Radion, and the AI Vega

With so many different LED fixtures on the market it is sometimes hard to keep track what options are available so we compared three of the highest performing LED reef aquarium lights, took some side by side pictures and threw together some quick specs for each fixture. The three fixtures we compared were the GHL Mitras, Read More

New GHL Mitras LX 6100 LED pendant coming in September, preorder discounts available

GHL’s new Mitras LX 6100 LED pendant was one of the bright spots (no pun intended) of InterZoo 2012 and the company has released the full details and plenty of spectral images along with tentative pricing and a release date. The new Mitras lamp is set to be released on September 1 and will cost between $1,099 Read More