How to Protect Your Aquarium in Natural and Manmade Disasters

Wow, these past few days have certainly seen more than their fair share of disasters in Atlanta. We had Hurricane Helene rip through, flooding many homes, knocking down trees and powerlines, and shutting down the city. And if that wasn’t…

Algae – The Solution to All Your Problems

I know what you’re thinking. Why would I keep ALGAE on purpose? Much less buy it to PUT in my tank?I would have agreed with you almost 15 years ago. When I got my first saltwater fish tank as a…

Greissinger Gobies: Tips for Maintaining a Small Fish With a Big Personality

Rarely available, expensive, yet beautiful with strikingly vibrant orange fins and charismatic behavior, the Greissinger Goby (Discordipinna griessingeri) can be a truly enjoyable addition for reef-keeping hobbyists who maintain suitable aquariums.  Native to the tropical Indo-Pacific and most commonly collected…

Alkatronic Pro Can Control KH, pH, and Temperature

It’s been seven long years since we first wrote about the Alkatronic KH monitor and controller, when Focustronic was then, primarily, a budding lighting manufacturer. We remember installing an Alkatronic at the store we worked in and bestowing the virtues…

How a Cooling Fan Can Save Your Tank from Overheating

If you’re new to reefing there’s so much to learn about keeping corals alive, but one of the fundamentals – more important even than KH and phosphate, more important even than light and flow, is temperature. It’s not the cold…

DOC is The Most Important Parameter For A Healthy Reef Tank: Here’s a New Method to Manage It

In this article, I will provide an overview of my take on the current zeitgeist of reefing and explain why the entire industry is ignoring a critical aspect of coral care. I will explain what issues this parameter causes, how…

Hydros Sole can Continuously Dose up to 300ml per minute

CoralVue has announced the latest addition to its controller and monitoring family, the Hydros Sole.  Sole is so named because it mainly comprises one sole stepper motor pump. A medical grade stepper pump, it can deliver up to 300ml per…

Mermaid’s Delight is An All-in-One Frozen Food Your Reef Inhabitants Will Thank You For

Like most hobbyists, I could probably pay a bit more attention to the foods I feed my reef tanks. Typically, I feed a blend of frozen mysis, nutrient-packed pellets, flakes, and veggies. What if I told you there was a…

Do Macroalgae Refugiums Have Unseen Consequences?

Many people have turned to growing macroalgae as a means to export nutrients for years. This has proven to be a solid method of managing nitrates and phosphates that when dialed in appear to have no negative impact on a…

Hydros Launch combines a lot into One Single Controller

Launch is the latest tempting addition to the Hydros controller range from Coralvue which combines a lot of useful control and monitoring features into one single box. Our three main monitoring needs are temperature, pH, and salinity, and Launch comes…