Blue Squamosa clams are among the rarest invertebrates which are quasi-never available for the home reef aquarium. Therefore you can imagine our surprise when we stumbled on a benign looking booth that was packing not one, not two, but two…
Nano Hang on skimmer from Bubble Magus, the NAC QQ
The NAC QQ Nano Hang skimmer from Bubble Magus is an adorable little fractionator for the masses. The Hang on moniker is a little deceptive because instead of hanging on the outside of your tank, this little tyke likes to…
Revolutionary Boyu chillers weigh almost next to nothing
Made from weighsalmostnothingium these new Boyu chillers will siginificanlty reduce the cost of aquarium chillers associated with shipping these heavy blocks around. On second thought, maybe these were just the shells (and they are as heavy as any other chiller).
Slim Skim Nano from Hydor spied next to it’s larger brother
The Slim Skim Nano is a beautiful new smaller iteration of the Slim Skim protein skimmer from Hydor. Whatever our impressions from the promotional images we posted a while back, the Slim Skim Performer in it’s nominal and nano iterations…
MagScrape floating algae magnet with removable blade from Mag Float
The Mag Scrap algae magnet for cleaning aquarium glass is a new product from the only company that doesn’t make “sinking magnets”, Mag Float. It’s funny how many people have DIY’d scraping solutiong for Mag Floats, usually in a fixed…
Cold Cathode fluorescent tubes for nano reef aquarium
Cold cathode fluorescent tubes (CCFLs) have been around forever, backlighting the first flat screens, some emergency lights and most importantly, the undersides of cars. More than a few curious reefers tried to use Cold Cathode t00bs for lighting some nano…
Reef Micro-Feeder and Macro Feeder from New Life Spectrum
Reef Micro-Feeder and Reef Macro-Feeder are two new coral foods from New Life Spectrum, arguably one of the most popular freshwater and saltwater fish pelleted foods in the United States. Although New LIfe Spectrum pellets have been a staple of…
Exclusive: Manual protein skimmer head cleaner from Deltec is so simple it’s brilliant
The manual protein skimmer head cleaner from Deltec is an idea so simple that you’d think it would have been conceived and built well before we had these $1000 self cleaning heads that cost more than the skimmer. What can…
Vertex Cerebra is an HD touchscreen aquarium controller with apps
The Vertex Cerebra is the brainchild of an ambitious plan by Vertex to do for aquariums what the iPhone has done for mobile computing and smartphones. Touchscreen, check. HD, check. Do it all aquarium controller, check. Downloadable appplications from an…
E-spot LED add-on for the Elos E-lites
The E-spot LED accessory light we spied a couple weeks ago is Elos’s answer to customizing either the color and intensity of their core E-lite LED product. Although they are on a track, they will not be movable along that…
