Simple Tips for Effective Marine Aquarium Aquascaping

Since we launched Saltwater Smarts, we’ve been sprinkling the term “aquascaping” into our posts with reckless abandon. While many of you seasoned salties out there might be well acquainted with this term, others may find themselves scratching their heads each…

Rossmont Mover prop pump brings tons of flow in a tiny package

The Mover propeller pump is a new device from a new company called Rossmont which takes great pride in designing and fabricating in its native Italy. With other high quality pump manufacturers like Eden, Sicce and Hydor also being based…

ReefToys new recirculating Blue and Red reactors for media and zeolites

The aptly named ReefToys has released some teasers about their forthcoming crop of new media and zeolite reactor designs. Considering that a typical media reactor is a simple tube with water going in one end and out the other, the…

New PAR38 LED gives 40 watts of light across a diverse spectrum

Coral Compulsion’s latest 40 watt LED PAR38 spotlight is the first significant development in this form factor that we’ve reported on in a long time. With an all new super-beefy heatsink and actively fan cooled from within, the new 40PAR38…

Ginsburgellus novemlineatus is a cool goby that feels more comfortable living amidst sea urchins

Ginsburgellus novemlineatus, or the nine-line goby, is a beautiful shallow water fish that is often found living in close proximity to sea urchins in the wild. The red-eyed goby is dark brown and decorated with neon blue stripes. The goby…

Flower anemones are totally HOT right now!

Flower anemones have been part of the saltwater aquarium hobby since before there even was a Reef aquarium hobby. They’ve always been around, at all the fishstores – in grey, brown, greenish and occasionally with a little bit of orange coloration…

Avast Marine Vibe and ARR Reactors bring vibrator technology to reef tanks

The Avast Marine Vibe are some new media devices which incorporate a degree of vibration in order to either clean calcium reactor media or zeolites in a zeoreactor set up. We gotta give Avast Marine for continuing to impress us in…

Cobalt Aquatics NeoFlow is a pretty capable mid-size reef aquarium propeller pump

The NeoFlow may not be the first adjustable DC propeller pump for aquariums, but it is the most deserving of providing previous flow to our aquarium corals and fish. With a host of new, innovative features, the NeoFlow blows past…

Best new products of MACNA 2013

We’ve just about wrapped up our coverage of everything MACNA this year and although it only took two weeks, there was an incredible diversity of new products announced, launched and releases at this year’s big event. If you need any…

MaxSpect Razor 200 coming soon with modified lens-reflector system

The Razor 200 LED slim light from MaxSpect is easily one of the best deals for intense reef-colored LED lighting for aquaria. The MaxSpect Razor was introduced with the 21″ Razor 120 and the 27″ Razor 160, then followed up…