Life After Purchase: A Guide to Introducing New Fish to Your Aquarium’s Social Dynamics

Moving can be tough on a kid. New places, new school, making new friends, meeting new bullies . . . I’m sure some of you can relate. So can your fish. Life can be tough even after getting shipped halfway…

Making a DIY Chaetomorpha Reactor is Incredibly Easy

Since the dawn of mini reef tanks, exporting nutrients to keep aquarium water clean has always been one of the most important tasks to having a successful, thriving tank. Between activated carbon to protein skimming, carbon dosing and denitrification, algae scrubbers…

Bubble Magus QQ1 hang on nano skimmer

Seaside Aquatics had a lot of Bubble Magus to show off at Reefapalooza last weekend, and one device we’re glad we got to see is the cute little QQ1 hang on protein skimmer. The Bubble Magus QQ1 is more of…

Bubble Magus original DC pump debuts on Curve skimmer

The Bubble Magus DC pump has been promised for quite some long time now, and we got our first glimpse at the new pump at Reefapalooza 2015. SeaSide Aquatics, distributor of all things Bubble Magus in the U.S. displayed the…

Taking the Rossmont Mover pump for a spin

The Rossmont Mover is very interesting  propeller water pump from the new Italian aquarium product company, Rossmont. Built from a tried and true two-bladed propeller design, the Rossmont Mover was built from the ground up with no legacy influences, and…

The PLS-100 Review: CAD Lights’ new pipeless skimmer

The new pipe-less skimmer by CAD lights is definitely a shakeup in skimmer design, and a heck of a space saver. Any design that reduces skimmer footprint is progress of skimmer evolution, as it will lead to incorporating larger skimmers…

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JNS BioPellet Reactors add new “twist” to fluidized reactors

[youtube width=”640″ height=”510″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ulsDpAzeW8[/youtube] The new JNS BioPellet Reactors are using an innovative vortex to keep biopellets in suspension inside the reaction chamber to ensure an even flow of water around the pellets to maximize their potential. The spinning vortex helps…

Unboxing the Coral-Shop Nano-Reef SET PR

The CS Nano-Reef SET PR from Coral-Shop is a complete lab in a box to keep your nano-reef happy. Thanks to Sea Side Aquatics we were given a box to research and evaluate. There is no doubt Coral-Shop is great…

Closer look at new Bubble Magus cone skimmers

The new Bubble Magus line of BM series cone skimmers we brought you recently were on hand at the Sea Side Aquatics booth at Reef-A-Palooza the other week. We were able to get in close and take a few snapshots…