Maxspect has taken the material it makes its Nano-Tech Bio-Spheres from and made it into an aquarium substrate. Nano-Tech Bio Sand combines the tiny ceramic beads that are stuck together to form Bio-Spheres with natural aragonite sand, a substrate known…
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Reef Factory Salt Tablets are a New Format in Marine Aquarium Salt
The salt market just got interesting as Reef Factory teased us with a new format in reef aquarium salt – a tablet. There are lots of ways to add or make up saltwater for your aquarium but in all our…
AquaRay P5 and P9 are the latest LED Light fixtures from TMC
Tropical Marine Centre has released a new LED aquarium light called AquaRay. Long-term European reefers will already be very familiar with the AquaRay brand name, as TMC was one of the pioneers of LED aquarium lighting some 15 years ago…
What’s in Their Water: An Analysis of Core Chemical Parameters Among Vendors at a Coral Show
Last week, I went to Saint Louis (Remy’s stomping grounds) to make content and speak at the Reefing USA coral show. Before coming, Remy had the great idea of testing all the vendor’s systems at the show to analyze potential…
Old versus new equipment. Which was better?
With all this talk of live rock and metal halides, it made us take a trip down memory lane, recalling what we did differently in the earlier days of reefing, as well as the equipment and methodologies that have stood…
Top Tips for Beginners and New Reef Aquarium Hobbyists
During my early years in the hobby virtually everyone I came into contact with, from shops to other hobbyists all said the same thing: “Keeping a saltwater tank is too difficult so don’t even bother trying”. Looking back I can…
TRITON Reef 2.0 will be a Great Barrier Reef Biotope
We still haven’t forgotten just how good TRITON’s original display tank was in Dusseldorf 10 years ago, so we were super excited to see that now TRITON Founder Ehsan Dashti is settled in Australia, he and the TRITON team are…
What to Consider When Buying Frags
This hobby has seen a lot of changes over the last forty years. Lighting, ICP testing, trace elements and flow to name a few items have all been improved upon and have helped change the hobby completely. However, even more…
Reef 2.0 – The Integration of Omics Technology
In this article, I will explain how new scientific methods are beginning to make their way into reefing and what the future may hold for applying such technology. Overview of the “omics” approach In the past two decades, science has…
Setting Up an Aquarium Log
As the old saying goes: The details are in the paperwork. This is especially true when keeping a reef tank where you can’t know where a tank is going unless you know where it’s been and you can’t really know…
