Reef-A-Palooza right around the corner – Jake’s speaking and Reef Builders’ lounge will be open

With the Fall season in full swing, that means just one thing — its almost time for Reef-A-Palooza in Orange County. Happening on Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, RAP is the largest marine aquarium event in the world…

Coral Reef Spain opens up a fancy new marine livestock wholesale facility on the Iberian peninsula

Western Europeans rejoice, we’re looking at you Spain and Portugal, because the prolific Coral Reef Spain aquarium company that brought you their own salt and a handful of thoughtfully designed retail stores has now opened up a modern marine livestock…

Machado de Sousa’s Coral Maternity is a quite impressive garage fish room

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToZtYTy9qIE[/youtube] When you think of a fish room, a long line of 20 gallon-ish aquariums on 2×4 racks usually come to mind. These systems do certainly get the job done, one just needs to look at Joe Lichtenbert‘s old fish…

Reeflo’s Blowhole gets tested as an inline tank filler pump

When we first spotted Reeflo’s Blowhole at Reefapalooza last year, our first thoughts went to the Blowhole pump being able to empty vats and fill tanks with lots of power in a form factor that works for this application. So…

ATB Elegance 220 is one impressive skimmer

ATB has always produced some of our favorite protein skimmers and the new ATB Elegance 220 looks to be another in a line of solid performers. With a footprint around 410 x 260 mm (16.15 x 10.25 in.) and suitable for…

When big just ain’t big enough — custom 20,000 gallon DIY aquarium install

Lookout Joe Yaiullo, there’s another 20,000 gallon reef tank in North America and this one looks like it’s got a lot of potential to be a really awesome reef “tank”. We get a little envious of size in this hobby…

Bashsea debuts entire equipment line at MACNA

Bashsea, up until recently a custom acrylic company, made their first debut here at MACNA showing off their new skimmer lines and reactors. All the products in the Bashsea line are made here in the US and are build with…

Warner Marine expands and improves additive line

Warner Marine, a company most known for their Skimmers recently completely re-did their additive line. Around 12 new products will be added including basic Trace Elements and Amino Acids. Beside the more standard additives some other products such as a bacteria…

Up close and personal with a Warner Marine MF201 protein skimmer

The Warner Marne MF Series protein skimmers represent at least three years of research in design and manufacturing (that we know of). What started out as the Warner Marine K1 and K2 cone body protein skimmer made by JNS are…

ATB skimmer pot cleaning system caught on video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMN01p6Ne0Q[/youtube] We first spotted the Pot Cleaning System on the ATB Super Size skimmer back in 2010, and we got to see the Pot Cleaning System up close on the ATB Elegance 250 Pro during Aquarama. Now we got our…