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
Macropharyngodon-marisrubri-head Red Sea leopard wrasse now its own species, Macropharyngodon marisrubri
Kessil A360N & A360W LED lights announced with excellent new features

Salifert Introduces “Reef Test” line for the budget minded

Reef Test, is a new line of aquarium water testing kits from Salifert that are designed for the budget conscious. For those living under a rock, Salifert is a Holland base company that has been producing their test kits for hobbyists for several years. These new budget kits offer entry to the Salifert Brand while Read More

BioStimulant Crush and Liquid from Thrive Aquatics combines the best parts of liquid and solid carbon dosing

BioStimulant Crush & BioStimulant Liquid are two new carbon dosing solutions from Thrive Aquatics which combine the best of what we know about dosing biopellets and vokda dosing. The BioStimulant Crush is a small size bio pellet by Thrive which is made from the two most commonly used types of biodegradable plastic and it includes Read More

GHL’s Mitras LED lights get a first hands-on look

The GHL Mitras LED is one of the highly anticipated products of InterZoo 2012 and we’ve finally gotten a good hard, close-up look under the hood of this feature rich LED. Multicolored LEDs are tightly clustered under the heatsink of the Mitras LED with four cooling fans blowing air across the topside heatsink. Some of Read More

Salifert redesigns their test kits, easier to use, hardshell plastic case coming as an option

Salifert, the famous brand know to produce quality water test kits are redesigning their popular line of Profi (expert quality) test kits. Specifically, the user instructions, graphics and other important information have been redesigned to offer better readability which means they are much easier to use.  This is probably one of the highest complaints about Read More

Illuminata LED is the smallest little multicolored light from Vertex

The Illuminata LED from Vertex packs perhaps the most lighting power in the smalest package of any light we’ve seen at InterZoo 2012 so far. Measuring roughly at a meager four by six inches and a half inch thick, the Vertex Illuminata packs no fewer than 17 LEDs in seven colors. Blue, Royal blue, red, Read More

Hydor Smart Level Control is a simple sensor for automatic topup of evaporated water

The Hydor Smart Level Control is a dead-simple device for management of evaporated aquarium water. The waterproof probe of the Hydor Smart Level Control inserted into the aquarium or sump at the desired level uses temperature difference to figure out where your water level is at, and it turns on a top off pump accordingly Read More

Fluval Sea PS1 protein skimmer is a small economy internal foam fractionator

The Fluval Sea PS1 is not just a decent internal protein skimmer, but a sure fire signal from Hagen that is is very serious about making a real push into the marine aquarium market. In addition to the Fluval Sea Salt, Fluval Sea circulation and Fluval Sea recirculation pumps, the Fluval Sea PS1 adds to Read More

Elos releases new System100 aquarium to the world

Elos just announced their System100, an all in one aquarium kit that should be a nice fit between the existing System120 and System70. Elos felt the need to address customers wanting a smaller size then the System120, but larger than the System70. The Elos system100 has actually been sold in Russia for the past five Read More

aCone skimmers 1.5 and 3.0 from AquaMedic use new needle wheel EcoRunner water pumps

The aCone skimmers 1.5 and aCone 3.0 are the first conical skimmers from AquaMedic with high air intake and low power consumption. The AquaMedic aCone skimmers use the also-new EcoRunner water pumps with a well designed air and water intake that really helps to reduce the potential clogging of the water pump. Although almost every Read More

Teco R290 Eco-Friendly Chiller uses a lower impact R290 refrigerant

The Teco R290 Eco-Friendly Chiller is a new water cooling device from the master chiller builders at Teco. It is well known that most chiller refrigerants are not exactly soft on the environment, and this especially applies to the commonly used R134A refrigeration gas. By contrast, the R290 refrigerant used in Teco’s new Eco-Friendly water Read More

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