Since the beginning or (reefing) time, coral growers have been brought up to use powerful main lights with accessory lighting to introduce actinic blue light – think a metal halide with VHO actinics on the sides. This notion has changed…
Product Videos
Sera O-Nip Tabs Are The Original Stick-On-Glass Aquarium Food
There’s somewhat of a renaissance happening with interesting fish and coral foods, especially those that stick on the glass so that critters can graze on them for a period of time. We’ve seen many offerings from New Era, Easy Reef…
The MACNA 2017 Video Tour Part 3
It’s been a busy week since MACNA wrapped up but we’ve managed to deliver a daily video on the best things we saw in New Orleans this year. This third installment of the MACNA video tour includes some savory aquarium…
The MACNA 2017 Video Tour Part 2
In this second installment of our coverage of MACNA 2017 we continue to peruse the show floor looking for and examining the latest and the greatest. There really as a bumper crop of cool new stuff to tell you guys…
The MACNA 2017 Video Tour Part 1
MACNA in New Orleans last weekend was one of the best looking reef aquarium shows we’ve ever been to. Despite the unfriendly traveling conditions due to Hurricane Harvey making landfall not far from the conference, the vendors and exhibitors all…
Illumagic Makes Killer LED Lights For Nanos, Reef Displays, & Commercial Scale
Illumagic is a Taiwanese company that has been making LED aquarium lights about as long as all the major players in the aquarium hobby. Being separate from mainland China, Europe and North America, Illumagic has really been able to develop…
Focustronic LED Review Video – Hands On With The World’s First Moving Aquarium Light
The Focustronic Focus1 LED has been making the rounds of reef aquarium shows throughout the year. But we had to get our hands on a Focus1 for ourselves to finally see this promising new light over live corals. What better…
Glamorca Gyre Pump Review Collab With Mile High Reefers
Gyre pump technology radically changed the form factor of controllable water pumps that can create this highly efficient continuous motion in reef tanks. The Glamorca GP03 gyre pump is one of Maxspects licensed product partners and it packs much of…
Maxspect Recurve LED Light, Full Details and Pricing (VIDEO)
The Recurve LED is easily one of the most exciting new LED lights in a long time, and certainly of 2017, and we’ve got the whole scoop on this new reef aquarium tech. We’ve gotten a look at this fixture…
Dial In Your Protein Skimmer With An Airflow Meter!
As many things as we love to measure in our reef tanks, it’s mind boggling to me that we don’t regular measure airflow on our skimmers. It was about a decade ago that skimmers started coming with an air silencer…