Red Sea Max S-500 440 liter (116 gallon) reef aquarium specifications

The Red Sea Max S- 500, which was released at Interzoo 2010 has finally been revealed with a bevy of specifications. The Max 500 from Red Sea is 440 liters (116 gallons) with total system water volume coming in at…

X-Inout by X-Aqua is a wavemaking return device

X-aqua’s X-Inout device is an innovative wavemaking device that makes a pleasant large ripple effect in aquariums. Using just the power of the return water pump, the X-inout pulses the flow of the return water, making waves that could be…

NPX Bioplastics from Two Little Fishies

NPX Bioplastics nitrate and phosphate reduing biomedia is a new biopolymer that aims to feed heterotrophic bacteria in reef tanks. Although there are a lot of new Biopellet-like products here at InterZoo, “2 lil’s” custom blend is among the smallest,…

LumiLux LED striplights by Vertex will bring Cree XPs to the masses

The Lumilux LED striplight from Vertex is among the better LED products which we’ve stopped to check out here at InterZoo. Even though Cree XP series and other high quality LEDs have been available for a considerable amount of time,…

Blue Squamosa clams, Tridacna squamosa, remind us why we like to reef

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…

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…

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…

Osmocontroller digital from Elos uses heat to monitor water level

There’s only a handful of truly innovative products at the InterZoo-Zoo and so far the Osmocontroller Digital from Elos is definitely one of them. The Osmocontroller digital is a patented water level sensor from Elos which uses a miniature heating…

ReefBuilders is Mame’s #1 fan

You would not believe our surprise and excitement when we rounded a corner of one of InterZoo’s eight great big exhibitor halls to see Japan’s finest handcrafted nano aquarium product manufacturer, Mame Design. The Mame Skimmer, Mame Kidney LED Light…

Turboflotor Blue 500 petite protein skimmer from AquaMedic

The Turboflotor blue 500 is a new miniature needle wheel from AquaMedic which is just being shown off at InterZoo 2010. The diminutive foam fractionator is an affordable in-sump nutrient removing device which is likely to be a particularly popular…