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A Glimpse Into Cold Water Coral Reefs Around Iceland

Thanks to the help of scientific ROV’s, we are not getting a glimpse into this deep dark alien world of Icelandic reefs. These corals live in complete darkness below the mesophotic zone at a depth of 600 – 2,000ft, (200-600…

How To Use The SICCE ContrALL App To Control SICCE SDC Devices

Control your SICCE pumps with the ContrALL app. ContrALL allows you to program your premium SICCE pumps with the intuitive user interface anytime from anywhere in the world. Control any of your SICCE SDC devices directly and fully customize your…

Tune in LIVE And Share Your Deep Sea Knowledge

The Schmidt Ocean Institute team is calling on all interested scientists, especially those from the mesophotic and deep-sea coral community to join in remotely and provide comments during the dives!

Maxspect Recurve LED Review: Ambitious and Versatility LED in Sleek Design

Maxspect has been known in global aquarium industry for its innovation and their creations are always accompanied with modern and daring design. Recurve LED, which was launched in late 2017, is no exception. This handsome LED fixture is packed with…

Illumagic Vitamini Striplight Review: More Color & Power for Less Money

The Vitamini LED Super Actinic Striplight by Illumagic is the first supplemental light of its kind that we’ve had the pleasure of writing about in far too long. This skinny new little light bar is packed with power, color, and…

Scientists Discover ‘Coraltropolis’ In The Cold Waters of British Columbia

Explorer Seamount, British Columbia 900m (3000ft) below the surface, on the side of an underwater volcano, may not be the first place you’d expect to find a dense community of corals. Yet on a recent expedition, scientists were awestruck by…

Red Sea ReefLED Review; the Best First-Generation LED Light to Date

The RedSea ReefLED is exactly the kind of practical reef aquarium light we expect from Red Sea, and hands down one of the best first generation lighting products we’ve ever reviewed. Since this is such an important release and their…

Mobius, Ecotech Marine’s New Control Platform Goes into Beta Testing

Mobius is a brand new control platform that Ecotech Marine has been hard at work building for several years, and now it’s in the final phases of testing. Ecotech has been using very capable microchips in its smart Vortech pumps,…

Hands On with the New Maxspect Jump DC10K Pump

The Maxspect Jump DC10K is a very unusual pump from the company that’s brought us products that were always designed far outside the glass box. The Maxspect Razor is mostly passively cooled, the Recurve has ‘wings’ that are like built-in…

High Performance MRC Pump Detailed Specs Revealed

The MyReef Creation line of high performance external water pumps are the first new models of this kind to be designed in a great number of years. In the next couple of days MRC will begin limited shipments of their…