Ozone is a pretty useful tool in oxidizing dissolved organics in the aquarium and the new Octopus Ozone is one promising unit that cranks out up to 250mg an hour. The Octopus O3 generator uses room air and comes with a built in…
Tunze Masterstream – seen almost in the wild
Several months ago we [the Steinhart Aquarium] received a Tunze Master Stream to try out and to add water flow to one of our 4000 gallon exhibits. When it arrived we excitedly pulled it out of the box only to…
AquaticLife outs new modular LED strips in blue and 50/50
AquaticLife LED striplights were shown off for the first time this weekend in Seattle by their distributor, Sunlight Supply. It was only a matter of time until AquaticLife joined the solid state lighting party with an actual LED striplight and…
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July 18 – July 24th Marcy’s reef is full of sweet azoox corals This is why cheap LEDs are not a good buy Magenta and Royal Blue Stunner LED colors look surprisingly awesome Maxspect Mazarra LED branches out into the…
Aquarium Design Group’s new retail store shows off True Lumen Pro LEDs, and vice versa
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJCgY1vulb0[/youtube] We know that this video was produced by Aquarium Design Group to show off the new True Lumen Pro LED strips from Current USA but in other ways, the True Lumen Pro LEDs are doing just as…
Some Livestock “Guarantees” Can Send the Wrong Message
A recently announced new form of livestock guarantee, a “Livestock Insurance Program” from a local fish store caught my attention as a unique and different approach to the common practice of most livestock warranties. In this scheme, a customer pays…
Hands on with the Reef Angel controller
We’ve been excited about the open source concept of the Reef Angel controller from the get go and now we finally got our hands on a Reef Angel controller. Needless to say, we weren’t disappointed. The controller certainly has come…
Eductor powered biopellet reactor now available in the US
In the latest of a long string of products we’ve spotted first overseas and now available in North America, the Eductor-powered biopellet reactor will soon be within reach for American reef builders. The eductor-in-a-reactor design was first spied at the…
New Mag Float Scrape is available now (updated)
The Mag Float Scrape is a larger, heavier duty floating magnet with a scraping front end like the Mag-Flip. We saw the first version of the Mag Float Scrape at Interzoo in Germany over a year ago when it was…
Orange-margin butterflyfish video from Blue Harbor features a never before seen juvenile
Prognathodes basabei is a remarkable species of butterflyfish that lives in the depths of Hawaii and nowhere else in the world. The gorgeous orange margin butterflyfish possesses a unique beauty and the extreme depth in which it lives in makes…
