Sicce Voyager Nano pushes water quietly and discretely

Sicce is no newcomer when it comes to making fine water pumps for our aquariums and we expected nothing less of their Sicce Voyager Nano. We first spotted the Voyager Nano in Sicce’s Aquarama booth in Singapore about a year…

Helix 5000 by Orphek adds a twist on the needle wheel with a spinning “spring wheel”

The Helix 5000 protein skimmer from Orphek was first announced and revealed at MACNA but there’s been a whole lotta tinkering on the design in the intervening months. While the shape of the body and the pump are highly reminiscent…

Bubble King Supermarin 300 use a combination of constant and controllable pumps

The Supermarin 300 is Royal Exclusiv’s new beast of a protein skimmer with not one, but two of their world famous Red Dragon pumps. The 16 inch diameter body of the SuperMarin holds a cone within a cone, with the…

Hands-on with LED Group Buy’s Lumia 5.2

Last year, LED Group Buy introduced the Lumia 5.1 to the DIY LED community, and has had great success with it. But while some loved the simple setup of this high power, full spectrum LED, there were others that were…

The Beautiful, Beginner-Friendly Bubble Coral

Recently, I found myself musing over the livestock lineup I had in my first reef tank many years ago. Along with a variety of easy-to-keep soft corals and a handful of hardy fish, I fondly recalled that I also had…

Innovative Marine NUVO Fusion series goes longer and deeper

The Innovative Marine NUVO series is getting new members with the launch of the Innovative Marine NUVO Fusion series featuring two all-in-one aquariums — one aimed at long aquascapes, the other at deep aquascapes. Coming off the success of both…

Not Every Small, Benthic Fish Is A Goby

This is a guest contribution from Joe Rowlett, one of the many talented fish geeks working the fish tanks at Old Town Aquarium in Chicago.  The taxonomy and classification of fish is not a subject that your average reefkeeper investigates…

Breaking down the Radion G3 LED and third generation Radion Pro

The third generation Radion G3 LED and its higher end Pro counterpart have a seriously cool new design and more revisions than previous incarnations. We reached out to Ecotech Marine about the new Radion G3 LED and learned that there’s…

Deepwater Aquatics Hang-On-Back Skimmer inherits JNS’s nozzled diffuser plate

The Deepwater Aquatic HOB protein skimmer is the most novel new hang-on skimmer we’ve seen in a while, and certainly the most notable of the year. Made by JNS of Taiwan, the Deepwater Aquatics HOB skimmer has inherited the novel…

Fish Street FS14000 pump adds $5 of quieting to the Jebao WP40

Fish Street, the international vendor of the world’s off-brand aquarium devices is one of the biggest sellers of Jebao’s capable but loud WP40 water pump. To address the noise issues, Fish Street hawked together a few bits and pieces of…