ATB uses inverted cone design to build biopellet and phytoplankton reactors

Whether you want to react biopellets or phytoplankton, ATB has got an inverted cone design for you. The company that brought the first conical skimmer body designs to the aquarium market has turned its thinking upside down to bring inverted cones to…

CONIC Bio-reactor from CAD lights is a plug and play biopellet mixer

The CONIC Bio-Reactor from CAD Lights is a thoughtfully designed aquarium devices which is a lot more than just a nozzle in a tube. Like the CPR media reactors, the CONIC Bio-Reactor is endowed with a primary forceful flow to…

AquaMaxx reactor has a gentle flow for media or a hardcore spin for biopellets

Just about every marine aquarium product manufacturer is getting in on the fluidized media reactor game, and the new AquaMAxx reactors are built with a couple extra tricks. Heavy duty construction, a full suite of fittings and filter pads is…

DrTim’s Aquatics NP-active pearls spotted at MACNA

We’ve covered plenty of biopellets here at Reef Builders but the NP-active pearls by Dr. Tims creation are a bit different. Although the NP-active pearls look pretty much the same as most on the pellets on the market, these pellets are…

Eductor powered biopellet reactor now available in the US

In the latest of a long string of products we’ve spotted first overseas and now available in North America, the Eductor-powered biopellet reactor will soon be within reach for American reef builders. The eductor-in-a-reactor design was first spied at the…

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…

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…

JNS BioPellet Reactors add new “twist” to fluidized reactors

[youtube width=”640″ height=”510″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ulsDpAzeW8[/youtube] The new JNS BioPellet Reactors are using an innovative vortex to keep biopellets in suspension inside the reaction chamber to ensure an even flow of water around the pellets to maximize their potential. The spinning vortex helps…

Hands on with ATB HQ Bio Pellets

We were able to get a hold of a pouch of the new ATB HQ Bio Pellets and get up close and personal. Right off the bat we noticed the ATB Bio Pellets are using a cylindrical pellet format instead…