Gear

FiSHBiT Mobile App is here

The new Mobile Fishbit App is now available to download in the App Store. Currently, the App is only for iOS however the Android App is in the works and will be available in July. With the new Fishbit App you…

Finding Dory Review: An Aquarist’s Point of View

The long awaited sequel to Disney’s Finding Nemo movie, Finding Dory, finally hit theaters this past weekend and I was thrilled to attend the film on opening weekend. Finding Dory’s producers marketed the heck out of this movie for at least a…

Tunze Calcium Automat Brings Refinement to Calcium Reactor

You may not know this, but Tunze has actually offered a calcium reactor for many years now. The German company’s unique take on the calcium reactor has historically been of an unconventional form factor, but the two new models of…

Vertex Cerebra will launch next week at nearly 50% off

The Vertex Cerebra has the dubious distinction of being one of the aquarium products with longest ever development period. We first sighted the new Cerebra aquarium controller from Vertex at InterZoo 2010, and it has come through a lot of revisions…

Rossmont Waver Review: A New Standard of Value in Propeller Pumps

Rossmont is a new company out of Italy that has been plugging away at making a new line of propeller pumps for aquariums. For the last couple of years, Rossmont has been happy to make no-frills but very modern-level propeller…

AquaBee Cove Protein Skimmers And Reactors Are Built Like Brickhouses

AquaBee Cove protein skimmers and media reactors are a new line of aquarium devices which are powered by killer water pumps. The new AquaBee Cove acrylic products is a new partnership between a bonafide German pump manufacturer, and Cove, an acrylic…

Video: Hands on with the NEW Apex aquarium controller

The new Apex aquarium controller was announced by Neptune Systems a little over two weeks ago. This new Apex controller is a condensed and streamlined version Neptune Systems’ flagship aquarium controller, with a few extra special features and many refinements across the…

Ultra Reef Typhoon is the first skimmer designed for the controllable Sicce PSK pump

Ultra Reef had a very big InterZoo, introducing their finely machined aquarium products to a wider audience than ever before. They already turned heads with their Nano Calcium Reactor and easily serviced media filter with possible Chaetomorpha reactor modification kit.…

AquaBee Wavemaker looks like a Gyre pump, but is completely different

The AquaBee WaveMaker pump looks incredibly familiar, but on the inside it is different from any pump that we’ve ever seen before. At first the clear plastic design and form factor definitely gave us a case of deja-vu since it…

K-Series protein skimmer from Aqua Medic

The K-series protein skimmers are a new line of foam fractionators from Aqua Medic that were just announced at InterZoo 2016. The K-Series will take over and replace their predecessors, the Acone protein skimmers, with more than superficial improvements across the…