Reef tank maintenance tips – helping you succeed with Acropora

We’ve been having fun this week visiting troubled reef tanks and troubled reefers and trying to help them with their ongoing problems. Talking to people online, by phone, or even face to face in your LFS is one thing, but…

Floating Reef System by Fauna Marin Makes Aquascaping Easy

The Floating Reef System is a new aquascaping accessory from Fauna Marin which should streamline the process of making yourself a swanky new reef scape. Pictured with example rocks the PVC frame of the Floating Reef System is specially designed…

Reef Factory Smart Tester Can Test Ca, Mg, PO4 or NO3

The Smart Tester by Reef Factory is a mostly nondescript enclosure that doesn’t divulge its intended purpose but underneath that glossy smoked black window is a veritable aquarium robot. The machinery hidden within Reef Factory’s Reef Tester is designed to…

ReefStock Australia 2022 Is coming for Sydney!

Are you ready for ReefStock Australia? We definitely are! The long awaited Sydney show returns this August 6-7, 2022.  ReefStock Australia has been a beloved tradition in the NSW region for several years, and this year is set to be…

How to Restore an Old Scratched Up Aquarium [Video]

Today’s aquariums are predominantly made of glass but many larger tanks and those made in unique shapes and sizes are quite often acrylic. Here in the US we have a huge pool of old and used acrylic tanks that can…

New Red Sea Reefer G2 is refined and ReefMat ready

It’s been six years since Red Sea changed the way we do reefing by providing a stripped-down, bare-bones, but beautiful tank that we could all play with. And in that time the Reefer has grown in number and dimensions and…

Red Sea ReefMat Review – The Best Auto Filter Roll to Date

The Red Sea ReefMat Review is one of the easiest reviews we’ve ever done and in a way we’ve been working up to this moment for the better part of a decade. It’s no secret that we have been massive…

British reefers squeezed by rising energy costs

Millions of people in the UK have woken up to much higher energy prices from April 1, 2022. No April Fool, the combined price of gas and electric supply to British homes has risen by 54% on average from today,…

Quanta Pro LED Striplights for Reef Aquariums and Corals

The Quanta Pro is a new LED strip light from newcomer Quanta Reef which is aiming to fill some gaps in our reef aquarium lighting. Quanta is offering their Pro LED strip lights in a familiar housing and form factor…

SkyLight Hyperspot is the LED we wish we had for reefs

The aquascaping community has always had the luxury of beautifully designed lighting fixtures and we couldn’t help but notice this one, the SkyLight Hyperspot, as it graces more and more aquascapes on Instagram.   The combination of that slimline, passively cooled…