Turbo’s Aquatics Revised Turbo HF Scrubber

Turbo’s Aquatics had the 3rd revision of their Turbo HF Scrubber on display at MACNA 2013 . Equipped with Philips Luxeon LED’s on both sides, this algae scrubber merges new technology with a proven method of nitrate/phosphate reduction. The heat sinks…

Fauna Marin’s Soft Clownfish Food and Marin Soft Protect

Fauna Marine showed off two new foods at MACNA 2013, Soft Clownfish Food and Marin Soft Protect. Soft Clownfish Food is geared towards, you guessed it, clownfish. While there are plenty of foods available to focus on increasing the orange and…

Fluval’s Marine Systems get pricing

We’ve reported on the Fluval Marine Systems before, and they here at MACNA 2013 to let us know they are now available from any retailer that sells Hagen products. Two systems were on display, a 14-gallon and 24-gallon all-in-one systems.…

GHL PLM-PWC Expansion Card shipping in October

We already touched on the new upgrades to the GHL Mitras LX including the native wireless control for GHL’s controllers and Mitras and we now know the PLM-PWC Expansion Card for the ProfiLux 3 is going to retail for $99…

AquaRaise Marine Refine is a new salt from Thailand

AquaRaise is a company in Thailand that has it’s roots in the commercial aquaculture business. AquaRaise manufacturers a whole line of different products including several additives and test kits, but they are most known for their Marine Refine salt which is the…

The infamous Cali Tort & Oregon Tort – classic strains of blue Acropora tortuosa

This week I would like to talk about a coral that is dear to my heart, Acropora tortuosa. I’m not sure exactly why this coral is so well loved and collected within the hobby – Is it because it occurs…

InD Creations Automatic Frozen Fish Food Feeder

The Automatic Frozen Fish Food Feeder as a concept is something that we’ve seen before in home DIY incarnations, but never in a professionally developed, commercial version. InD Creations aims to change that with their Auto Frozen Feeder which looks…

Sunfire Grafted Cap Has Even Brighter Colored Polyps!

Grafted Corals, or ‘GFP Infections’ are among some of the most interesting and bizarre coral ‘strains’ available to us in the aquarium hobby. The phenomenon has been documented in a wide variety of corals, most often in small polyp stony…

How To Program Your LED Lights For A Reef Tank

Back when we were just using T5s or metal halides, the ‘programming’ was only concerned with how long to run the lights of a given intensity. But now that we’ve got access to multiple channels of light, in various colors, it can…

I’m Dying For A Xmas Tree Worm Rock Like This

Ever since I started in the hobby in the mid 90s, Xmas Tree worm rocks, coco worms and feather dusters have been among some of the most fascinating non-coral animals for a reef tank. The popularity of Xmas Tree worm…