It’s been almost a year since Focustronic teased some information about their newest project to compliment their alkalinity tester called the Mastertronic. Where the Alkatronic is a complete, al…
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How to Optimize the Installation of an Automatic Filter Roll
It’s no secret that we’ve become pretty big fans of Automatic Filter Rolls as a potent replacement for using mechanical filter socks. We don’t want to think about how many hours we&#…
Salty Q&A: Need Advice on GFO Use
Q: I’m thinking about using GFO in my reef tank, but this product is new to me, so I have a few questions before I go ahead and buy it: Does GFO really do a good job of lowering nitrate and phosphate?…
Salty Q&A: Water-Change-Induced Algal Bloom
Question: I recently did a 25-percent water change in my reef aquarium, and later that same day a film of green algae appeared on the glass. I cleaned it off with an algae magnet only to have it reapp…
New Discoveries of the Relationship Between Corals & Bacteria
Seems like the relationship between corals and bacteria are becoming a hot subject in the scientific world and a lot of publications on this are coming out every week. This week, we came across a rece…
Freshwater Substrate Vs. Aragonite Mangrove Growth Test
Mangrove trees are a popular addition to reef aquarium systems, and we’ve recently focused our attention on them with all the newfound space at the Reef Builders Studio. It’s positively ea…
Mastertronic is a New Water Testing Machine Under Development
Focustronic has carved out a very interesting space in the reef aquarium market for itself in a fairly short time. It all started with the dynamically movable Focus 1 LED light fixture, continued with…
Acropora anthocercis, Another Champion Coral of the Outer Reef
When we think about Aussie Acros, there are quite a few that come to our mind before Acropora anthocercis. But actually this species is a very popular Acropora, almost as common in the trade as the Sp…
Four Accessories to Streamline Aquarium Water Testing
We’ve been testing the chemistry of our aquarium water, one or two tanks at a time, for as long as we’ve been building reef tanks. However now with the new Reef Builders Studio we have man…
Flaming Sunrise from Candy Corals is one of a Helluva Acropora speciosa
Candy Corals from Canada, recently acquired an amazing Acropora speciosa from Malaysia that they are calling the Flaming Sunrise. We’ve long been fans of these particular deepwater and elegant s…