Tropic Marin’s new BioActiv Salt mix has finally landed on US shores and retailers have been getting it out to customers for over a month now. We were sent our 25kg test bucket over several months ago. Here is what we have found in months of testing the Bio ACTIF system from one of the [...]
Tropic Marin’s new Bio-Actif system just got a new product that has been added to the line. Liquid calcium is being touted as an additive that can balance your “PH in the long term by through the balance of individual substances by sodium chloride-free salt, the ionic balance in the basin is not disturbed. Unlike [...]
Another product to add to Tropic Marin’s Bio Actif system brand is the pro coral kalk. Quite simply it is calcium hydroxide in its purest form and is used to make up the classic limewater. Tropic Marin Pro-Coral Kalk increases pH and calcium content to promote the growth of corals and calcareous coralline algae. It [...]
We have some additional information on the bio-actif reef salt that was released at Interzoo 2008. The salt like we previously stated has no nitrates, phosphates and other unnatural enrichment additives. However, this new salt has optimized values (similar to the Pro Reef Sea Salt) at KH (about 8 °) and pH (8.4 to 8.5), [...]
While Tropic Marin was busy releasing new Bio Actif products, we were wondering if in fact a new salt would hit the market. The Bio Actif Salt has been confirmed as being brought over to the US, it is already available in parts of Europe. Some of the features of this new salt is that [...]
Phytoplankton has become a hobbyist favorite when keeping reef aquariums. It’s no wonder as phytoplankton has an active role in the ocean and we among other things like to mimic the ocean as close to possible. Tropic Marin’s new phyton product seeks to expand on that. “Natural phytoplankton is an important supplier of energy and [...]
Hold on to your hats kids! Because Tropic Marin’s new media reactor kit is sure to leave you drooling. The kit is a filter block that will slowly bring water in from your aquarium or sump and push through the filter bock.The kit comes either in a “Elmi Control Carbon”, or a Phosphate version as [...]
It wont actually make your tank any colder, but it might make your inhabitants happier. Reef snow, a new product from Tropic marine is a concentrated powder that when mixed with RO/DI forms a nice thick snow layer that can easily be absorbed by filter feeders and corals’ polyps. Since Reef Snow is a prebiotic [...]
Reef ACTIF is a adsorber and bacterial nutrient for saltwater aquariums. The product is suspended in the aquarium water where it bonds with both nutrients and water contaminants making them available as nutrients to bacteria and other animals that feed on dissolved organic material in the saltwater. This product which is now available in the [...]