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
DSC_5775 Sicce’s booth at Zoomark 2013 featured lots of goodies for the future
AI Director is AquaIllumination’s solution for simplified wireless control

Nanotuners clearing out some inventory, sweet deals abound

  The crew over at Nanotuners has some pretty nice deals going on on products they are looking liquidating so if you are in the market for some nano accessories, this might be worth a look. They have some ballasts and canopies for Biocubes plus lights, skimmers, fans and other goodies for JBJ Nanocubes in Read More

ATB Nano internal protein skimmer is an air-driven hottie

The ATB Nano is a protein skimmer that we’ve seen before – we saw it in the ATB Nano Hang-On skimmer and the ATB Mikro Nano cone skimmer - but now ATB has an eye-catching new fractionator in the ATB Nano Internal protein skimmer. ATB’s latest skimmate maker is way more nano than previous iterations Read More

BioBubble habitat is neat but not suitable for most marine fish

The BioBubble is an interesting and versatile animal habitat which is convertible between aquarium, terrarium, small pets and mini greenhouse. The BioBubble might be neat but they’ve clearly overestimated the capacity of the puny air driven filter and underestimated the needs of live marine fish. Apparently, the makers or marketers of the BioBubble didn’t get Read More

Uhuru’s stellar Azoox nano reef

We are always on the lookout for unique and beautiful aquariums and this Azoox aquarium from “Uhuru” that was selected as the featured this month on Nano-Reef fits the bill. A non-photosynthetic aquarium is no easy task in itself, let alone getting it to a nice healthy state like this one, so we appreciate the Read More

This French aquarium is a half gallon of custom made LED lit pico reef

One of the things we absolutely love about nano reefers is their passion to build it themselves, and to DIY something unique and creative. Take this pico reef measuring in at half a gallon, or just under two liters, which has a custom made light and filtration system completely built in. The presenter of this Read More

Sunpulse Nano Series Ceramic Metal Halides are as small as 20 watts

SunPulse Nano Series Ceramic Metal Halide lamps are a new line of HID lights with sizes down to 20 watts. The SunPulse Nano Series metal halides come in 20, 35, 75 and 100 watts and in 3, 4, 6.5 and 10K correlated color temperature. Unlike the mogul base and double ended metal halides reefers are Read More

Gramma dejongi nano reef video

Even if it is only 30 seconds long, this Gramma dejongi video gives a clear profile view of this Cuban endemic reef fish. Just a couple weeks ago we shared a video of a pair of Gramma dejongi which seemed to be getting along, and last fall we saw a video of a Japanese Gramma Read More

First look at the AquaMedic Yasha reef tank

We saw it at Interzoo, wrote about it coming to North America a few months back and now the AquaMedic Yasha nano reef aquarium is getting closer to being available to the public. We had the chance to get our hands on one of these right before ReefStock and wanted to take a quick tour Read More

Awesome dancing nano reef is a masterpiece of common reef life

The dancing 25 gallon nano reef has a lot going for it; a vortech pump, LED lighting, great looking common marine animals, moderate use of live rock and an overall look which is greater than the sum of its parts. We absolutely love that this nano reef is stocked with the most bread and butter Read More

World’s smallest aquarium is an exercise in miniaturization

The world’s smallest aquarium has no filter, no heater and definitely no vortechs, but it does have tiny fish and pieces of algae shaped into larger looking plants. At just over an inch/3cm long and holding just 10 ml of water, this work of aquatic miniaturization is the latest creation by Russian miniaturist Anatoly Konenko. Read More

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