Aquaforest is a new company from Poland that makes an interesting line of reef aquarium additives. Aquaforest products seem to mirror many of the additives we’ve seen from Zeovit and Fauna Marin, but they are really emphasizing the probiotic functions of…
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Kessil Mounting Arms help class up your LED light
The Kessil Mounting Arm is a new mounting solution for installing any of Kessil’s LED spotlights and fixture. Up until now Kessil has been the only major light manufacturer to offer a reasonably nice and adjustable gooseneck mounting arm, but we realize…
King of DIY speaks wisely on the realities of keeping aquariums
When you are setting up your first tank, or your first tank this month, you are excited about all of the new and exciting aquatic life and thinking about all the great times you’re going to have with the new aquarium.…
Euroquatics E5 LED T5 retrofit lamps now available from Marine Depot
Euroquatics first revealed their exciting new E5 Retro Series LED lamps for T5 fixtures since late september of last year but the wait is finally over. The E5 Retro Series LED tubes are now available from Marine Depot in four…
How a reef tank really looks under hybrid T5 & LED lighting
Check out this new reef tank video by Martin Kunzelnick and tell us this is not a work of art. What we love most about this reef tank, other than the luscious and healthy corals, the active and vibrant fish, and the…
Flexi Plug intelligent aquarium bluetooth timer
The Lexi Plug bluetooth timer is a new wireless control device designed and marketed specifically to the aquarium hobby. We know it seems like we’ve been covering a lot of various outlet accessories, but the Flexi Plug has smart and…
Jean Jaubert’s ‘perfect’ 5 liter reef bowl ecosystem
Reef Aquariums have become so sophisticated and can be so complex that ‘hardcore reefers’ treat the design and build of a new reef tank almost like a sport. One look at the numerous build threads is evidence enough to demonstrate how…
SOS Zaya is a creative ‘skimmer overflow stopper’
The SOS Zaya is a creative new reef aquarium accessory that can prevent the overflow of protein skimmers. The Skimmer Overflow Stopper is another one of those super niche reef aquarium products brought to you by the makers of the original…
Can you think of aquarium uses for the Tesla Valve?
The Tesla Valve is a unique device that was conjured in the 1920s by the master inventor, Nicola Tesla. The Tesla Valve is unique in that it is an ‘almost’ one-way valve that allows fluid to flow mostly in one direction,…
UK’s Horniman successfully completes in-vitro fertilization of captive corals
The UK’s Horniman Museum and Gardens has accomplished the first successful in-vitro fetilization of captive coral when a collection of corals transplanted from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in 2015, recently spawned. The spawning event in December that released approximately 130,000 eggs from nice corals of two…