The problem with romanticizing the reef hobby and idolizing demagogues

After reading Scott Fellman’s post about bad reefing ideas, I started to think about where a lot crazy shifts in reefkeeping have originated. Usually it’s from some reefkeeping “expert”.  More often than not, I have had to ask myself what…

Video walkthrough of the Profiline digital dosing system from Coral-Shop

[vimeo width=”680″ height=”425″]http://vimeo.com/25193138[/vimeo] The Profiline digital dosing system from Coral-Shop is one of the most aesthetically designed and thoughtfully engineered aquarium products to come out in quite a long time. With the popularity of dosing two part solutions, balling and…

Sneak peek at the prototype Calcium Checker from Hanna

The Calcium Checker from Hanna could be the easy-to-use colorimeter for calcium testing that reef aquarists and LFS employees have always dreamed of. For those reef aquarium water testers who are either color blind or lack sensitivity between blue and…

Cost of Lanthanum and Neodymium rise sharply following China’s stockpiling of rare earth metals

There is one chemical reaction at which the rare earth metal Lanthanum is particularly good at, and that’s precipitating phosphate from water. The use of Lanthanum Chloride (LaCl3) to precipitate phosphate from reef aquarium water has grown in recent years,…

NOPO Biopellets now available at Reef Dynamics

Another nitrate and phosphate reducing biopellet is available on the market now as Reef Dynamics adds NOPO BioPellets to its line of products. While there appears to be no major differentiators between the NOPO BioPellets and what else is on…

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Aqua Vision Aquatics releases carbon, GFO and bio pellets

Aqua Vision Aquatics just released a new line of filter media products with Pelletized Activated Carbon or P.A.C, Granular Ferric Oxide or G.F.O., and Nitrate & Phosphate Bio Pellets or N.P.B.P. Aqua Vision, the brainchild of Jeremy Howell one of the founding…

Reef Octopus releases Bio Sphere solid carbon biopellets

Reef Octopus, purveyor of low cost aquarium goods and equipment has released their Bio-Sphere product. Bio Spheres are a pure solid carbon source to help reduce nitrates and phosphates in a marine aquarium much how you have seen other products…

Bactiv8 NPX is a new bacterial culture from Two Little Fishies

Bactiv8 NPX is a new bacterial additive from Two Little Fishies with the purpose of boosting the quantity and diversity of heterotrophic bacteria in reef tanks. Bactiv8 NPX contains active marine bacteria that aid in the nitrification and denitrification and…

Unboxing the Coral-Shop Nano-Reef SET PR

The CS Nano-Reef SET PR from Coral-Shop is a complete lab in a box to keep your nano-reef happy. Thanks to Sea Side Aquatics we were given a box to research and evaluate. There is no doubt Coral-Shop is great…