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Aqueon QuietFlow UV marries sterilization with the power filter

The Aqueon Quiet Flow UV is the most plug and play ultraviolet sterilizer available, with what could be described as a full size UV lamp. It may look like a power filter…

Opinion

Revisiting the custom PE Mysis strainer pot

From time-to-time, we start poking around all the thousands of posts we’ve written and we remember some of the cool stuff we’ve seen, written or created. This article originally appeared in January 2012 and it got us thinking, what cool…

Aquarium Shows

Ecoxotic’s E-Series LED striplight is superbangin’ over some real live fish and corals

Earlier this month Ecoxotic teased us with a promising new LED, the E Series striplights with integrated reflectors, multicolor, multichannel control and remote controllability. While Ecoxotic had a strip on their ReefStock table, we didn’t get a taste of the…

Tank Profile

Tank Profile: Paul B’s 40+ Year Old Saltwater Aquarium

When it comes to standing the test of time, few aquariums have more history than Paul Baldassano’s 100-gallon glass box. Ask any aquarist who has spent time on internet forums, and they’ve likely encountered Paul (more commonly known as Paul…

I ended my aquarium’s stupid plastic center brace with a ‘Brace Protector’

The plastic center brace of many a small to medium sized aquarium has been the bane of my and many a reefers’ existence since plastic frames were introduced to build modern mass-produced aquarium. Over nearly two decades the plastic center…

Companies

Corals touching in aquariums is not the end of the world

It’s easy to get caught up in aquarium dogma and the reefing world is no different with prescribed military food tray style separation of all corals. But in practice the interactions between corals that are similar, and between those that…

Hikari AccuProbe’s unique calibration method revealed

When we first discovered that Hikari’s AccuProbe Hydrometers were each individually calibrated, we had to find out how they were doing it with such an apparently simple plastic measuring tool. Low and behold, we got our first look at Hikari’s…

Aquarium Shows

Building An Obsession dosing box alerts user to low additive levels

If you thought that fly sumps were the only ace up Building An Obsession’s sleeve, then you’d be wrong. Building An Obsession has an exquisitely crafted dosing box in its acrylic works catalog that display the same level of craftsmanship…

Aquarium Shows

Helix 5000 by Orphek adds a twist on the needle wheel with a spinning “spring wheel”

The Helix 5000 protein skimmer from Orphek was first announced and revealed at MACNA but there’s been a whole lotta tinkering on the design in the intervening months. While the shape of the body and the pump are highly reminiscent…

Aquarium Shows

Fluval M40 desktop all in one aquarium

Hagen is making a big push for the M series all in one aquarium with an alternative view of what an all-in-one reef aquarium should look like, and how it is equipped. Fluval has come a long way since the…