The Rise and Fall of Vertex Aquaristik

There was a time in the early 2010s when Vertex Aquaristik had an outsize influence on the reef aquarium hobby – their skimmers, reactors and a growing catalog of other reef aquarium goods were the brand to have. Fast forward to…

New Vertex Website is a Dream for Gear Heads

The new website for Vertex Aquaristik has us excited not because it’s really flashy and animated, but for all the technical specifications that it dives deep into for all of their products. Their skimmers and reverse osmosis water purifiers are…

Vertex I-Supra C+ featured in video trailer

The Vertex I-Supra C+ is a radical new sump design from Vertex Aquaristik which takes the ‘kitchen sink’ approach to total reef aquarium filtration. While reef aquarium sumps have received intensive modernizing redesigns in recent years, the Supra C+ is the most…

Vertex Supra C+ Filter is a hyper-engineered reef sump

The Vertex Supra C+ filter is a feat of reef sump design the likes of which we’ve never seen before. We’ve seen individual reefers take their sumps to the next level but nothing can prepare you for how complex and sophisticated…

Vertex Illumina Two sports more LED colors & channels than any other light

The Vertex Illumina Two is the first real major revision to the LED Light from Vertex Aquaristik since it was introduced more than four years ago. In some ways the Vertex Illumina has been the dark horse of LED reef…

Vertex V6 pump review – silence and efficiency, at a price

The Vertex V6 pump is the first water mover from Vertex Aquaristik made in-house with the same custom volute as employed in the popular Omega 150 protein skimmer. Whereas the Omega 150 uses a Sicce pump with a custom volute,…

Vertex Libra Review: by far the most user friendly aquarium dosing pump

It’s fair to say that the first time we saw the Libra dosing pump system from Vertex Aquaristik, we were smitten. A beautiful design encloses the best stepping motors you can drive peristaltic pump heads with, and a smart controller…

Vertex’s Cerebra Controller in the flesh

Vertex Aquaristik had their power house Cerebra Controller on display at MACNA 2013, and they were kind enough to spend time with Reef Builders for a run down of the unit’s immense capabilities. The Cerebra is an Android based controller…

Vertex magnet cleaner Hexaplex brings style to large magnet scrubbers

Much like Vertex Aquaristik‘s other magnet accessories the Vertex Hexaplex magnet cleaner brings some serious class to something that you might not have previously thought of as visually appealing.  In essence the Vertex Hexaplex is the big brother of the cleaner magnet…

Vertex Omega Cone skimmer leads the pack for AC powered internal designs

Although the first introduction to the Vertex Omega Cone skimmer was a recirculating model with a huge recirculating pump, what Vertex has settled on with the simply internal Omega skimmer is perhaps one of the best new reef toys of…