Aperture Pet & Life is a new company which was announced today to amalgamate and further develop some of our favorite reefkeeping brands. Last year investment group Bertram Capital acquired Bulk Reef Supply (which then bought Marine Depot,) then they…
Coral Essentials CVE+ enables auto dosing of Chroma, Vibrance & Energy
Dosing liquids from little glass bottles has its own nuances, but in the last year or so we’ve seen a shift change from the detail of refrigerating and dripping straight into the top of your tank, to the ease of…
SeaVisions SAATS Combines Auto Roller and Algae Scrubber
We’re all familiar with turf scrubbers and their benefits but South Florida-based SeaVisions think they’ve taken the next step in turf scrubber technology. The SeaVisions Automatic Algae Turf Scrubber (SAATS,) uses light to grow algae which in turn locks up…
Oase StreamMax Pumps are out of Touch
Oase is a brand synonymous with quality and if you’ve owned a pond in the past thirty years and wanted a solids-handling pump, Oase was probably top of your list. We’ve seen the German pond giant make moves into the…
New Red Sea Reefer G2 is refined and ReefMat ready
It’s been six years since Red Sea changed the way we do reefing by providing a stripped-down, bare-bones, but beautiful tank that we could all play with. And in that time the Reefer has grown in number and dimensions and…
Dalmation Tang is a $30,000 aberrant Acanthurus nigricauda
Some aberrant saltwater fish can be a bit dirty looking, while others like this recently caught Piebald specimen can be instant show stoppers. It was caught in the Indian Ocean off Sumatra at a depth of 14 feet, where it…
Build your own aquarium canopy with Illumagic
Everyone likes a versatile LED mounting system but Illumagic may have just created the most versatile by demonstrating how their RMS can be built into an actual aquarium canopy. The existing RMS is essentially an extruded metal profile the type…
Sera hose splitter takes tiny feed off existing pumps
To us, aquarium plumbing is like Lego. Lock us in a room with a box of fittings and we’ll play with it all day. And maybe build a few contraptions out of it too. And the mere sight of this…
Hybrid Pro Salt is an evaporative, synthetic, amino acid, probiotic blend
Polish reef care brand Aquaforest has expanded its salt portfolio to include two new recipes. Sea Salt, Reef Salt, and Probiotic Salt are now joined by Reef Salt +, a synthetic salt with elevated parameters, and the all-singing, all-dancing Hybrid…
Microchip shortage slows aquatic launches and production
Have you noticed some of your favorite reefing electricals are out of stock lately? It may be down to a global shortage of microchips… Chips do a lot for many modern reefing products. They act as the brain of any…