Atoll Solutions teasing with some fancy acrylic aquarium products

Atoll Solut is an up-and-coming company from Argentina that is adding some nice looking acrylic pieces to their slowly growing lineup. We touched on the Atoll Solut salt mix a little over a year ago and were glad to see…

Aquarium Specialty and My Reef Creation team up to build the Mother of All Trade Show Aquariums (MATSA)

We’ve seen more than our fair share of ghetto-fabulous and not-so-great display aquariums at marine aquarium trade shows but the Mother of all Trade Show Aquariums [MATSA] is not one of them. Built with a vision by Aquarium Specialty and…

Australia now has a domestic supplier of square frag plugs and tiles

Aquatic Culture is an Australian company making frag plugs that at least has themselves a kiln and some molds to make square frag plugs and square tiles. The smooth white ceramic frag plugs are the first of their kind to…

Vertex Sensor Mag moonlights as an attractive support for a gyre frag tank divider

The Vertex Sensor Mag magnetic probe holder is attractive acrylic, neodymium and titanium and there is no doubt that it can hold up a few probes, but what else can it do? Well in the time that we’ve been using…

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The Schuber Wright Titan HQI + LED hybrid is a sleek looking fixture that uses screw in LED bulbs for the actinic lighting. Constructed out of aluminum, the sleek fixture uses a double-ended HQI bulb and eight of Shuber Wright’s…

Hands on with Thrive Aquatics vertically mounted coral frag plug tree

The Frag Plug Tree from Thrive Aquatics is an ingenious way to elegantly add more real estate for frags in an existing aquarium. Whereas most frag mounts we’ve seen to date including the Eshopps Frag Cave and Frag-a-rack are mounted…

Flipper algae scraper is a near perfect clone of the Mag-Flip

The Flipper magnetic algae scraper is somewhat confusing to us; on the one hand it looks like a near perfect copy of the Mag-Flip algae scrapers we’ve been using in our tanks for years but they claim to be using…

Aquarium Controllers Part 3: Top five things the extreme fish-geek wants in an aquarium controller

We have reached the last of the three part series (Part 1, Part 2) I have written on aquarium controllers. In this last part I am going to discuss the five most important things I think the advanced aquarist will…

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