Oceanlife adds aquarium test kits

Italy’s Oceanlife has recently released a series of aquarium test kits. We had the chance to see Oceanlife’s products first hand at MACNA and were impressed. According to the initial unboxing review at DaniReef, the test kits look straight forward with…

DVH BioGro 1-2-3 looks to give your NP biopellets a boost

DVH, who first introduced the reefing world to the NP biopellet and the solid carbon dosing craze, has a new supplemental product to give your biopellets a boost. DVH BioGro 1-2-3 will work alone or give the pellets a hand…

Thrive Water Lab is set to revolutionize water testing at the LFS

Thrive Water Lab is a water testing kiosk from Thrive Aquatics which is the answer to the prayers of LFS employees all over the world. The concept of the Thrive Water Lab is almost too good to be true; customer…

Do you test for O2? JBL’s new TestLab Marin kit suggests you should

The JBL TestLab Marin is a full fledged test kit for saltwater use which already included pH, KH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, Copper, Calcium, Magnesium, Silicate, Phosphate and now also includes Oxygen. The updated TestLab Marin added oxygen to the mix…

Nyos Nitrate test kit has easily read scale and takes only two steps

Nyos is a budding high end marine aquarium product company which first broke onto the reef scene with some private-labelled cone protein skimmers for Europe, but they’ve been busy developing a whole suite of original goods. The Nyos Viper water…

Orca Nitra-Guard BioCubes available to North America now from Polyplab

The Nitrate-reducing Nitra-Guard BioCubes have enjoyed growing use in South Africa and now American aquarists will soon be able to get some locally. The Reef-roids and medic manufacturer, Polyplab, have secure a new distribution deal with the south African based company…

Warner Marine ecoBAK NWF “biopellet sheets” are a new way to think about carbon dosing

Warner Marine ecoBAK NWF (non-woven fiber) is an extremely interesting concept, take a widely popular carbon dosing solution such as biopellets and reshape it into “biopellet sheets”. Those sheets now perform the same functions as biopellets but can be used…

J’Field Yeo’s cube from Singapore is a cute collection of corals

This cube reef from Singapore comes awfully close to a flow destroying, detritus collecting rock wall but overall the system looks great and is more than worth checking out. At roughly 24 inches cubed (65cm^3) this square aquarium is far…

Royal Nature hits the US market

Royal Nature, the evaporated sea salt from Israel, is finally hitting the US with a new representative here working on distribution. The selling point for Royal Nature is getting as close to nature as possible. If you look at the…

Nitra-Guard Bio-cubes from Orca Labs promises denitrification free of Redfield’s ratios

  Orca Labs Nitra-Guard Bio-Cubes are an interesting take on solid carbon dosing. A lot of our readers are likely familiar with biopellets and their assorted variations, but these appear to be completely different. Nitra-Guard Bio-Cubes  were originally invented in…