The new Avast Marine CS3 Cone Skimmer Kit is an ideal way to get a stellar protein skimmer at a great price while satisfying your appetite for DIY. The CS3 cone skimmer is probably one of Avast Marine’s best ‘YouBuilt’ line of assembly-required aquarium products offering an incredible value for the mechanically inclined. Coming in either Read More

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The Swabbie self cleaning head for protein skimmers is the latest Avast Marine product to get the do it yourself treatment. As if the cost of entry for the $159 Swabbie wasn’t low enough, now you can save $50 when build your own Swabbie with all the included parts in the DIY kit from Avast Read More

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Not content to let Avast Marine’s Swabbie have all the skimmate cleaning fun, Vertex Aquaristik will soon be releasing a protein skimmer neck cleaner of their own called the Vectra. The Vertex Vectra skimmer neck cleaner is powered by a durable brushless AC motor which can stand up to the stop and start and torque required Read More

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When we first laid eyes on Avast Marine’s Swabbie we were very impressed with the economic pricing and high quality craftmanship. Unfortunately for the international crowd, at the time they were only available in the 110v US version. Well International fans rejoice because Avast will be shipping 220v/50hz versions with EU and UK plug types by the end of Read More

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It’s hard to believe that a whole year has passed since we last published our list of best aquarium products of 2009. If you needed any indication that 2010 was a big year for aquarium products, consider that last year our list included only ten products and this year the list is double. More so Read More

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When Avast Marine asked us to review their new and affordable Swabbie automatic neck cleaner for protein skimmers, we thought we’d give them a little bit a challenge. Instead of sending us a po-dunk little skimmer neck cleaner we tasked Avast with custom building a ginormous neck cleaner for the nearly six inch diameter neck Read More

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The Swabbie is new add-on for protein skimmer which automatically wipes down the scum that builds up on the collection neck. The aftermarket accessory from Avast Marine is unusual for a market where most protein skimmer neck cleaners are sold at near ludicrous prices and skyrocket up from there: the Deltec SCH is £799, Bubble Read More

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Grey Seas Aquatics has changed their name over to AVAST Marine. Grey Seas which we have covered before offered affordable aquarium products like their GS2 protein skimmer which was a popular model in the cone category that retailed for $280. Wavespring Aquaculture is the other company joining forces with Grey Seas Aquatics. Like their name Read More

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