Warner Marine EcoBak Plus is packed with a diversity of carbon and polymer

EcoBAK Plus is a new biopellet formulation from Warner Marines which is endowed with more than the average bio-polymer. We know of many different reefers who add varied carbon sources to their reef aquariums, like vodka and vinegar, and others…

Tropic Marin releases new Bio-Actif Professional line including biopellets and media reactor

Tropic Marin released their own version of the biopellet (the NP Bacto Pellet) around a year ago as part of their Bio-Actif line. Now Tropic Marin has improved on the original biopellet design, and is releasing the Bio-Actif Professional line…

Royal Exclusiv adds media filters to their Dreambox line up

Royal Exclusiv is releasing their own set of media reactors, and like all their other lines will be a classy as they are functional. Appropriately named the Dreambox media filters, the reactors are part of Royal Exclusiv Dreambox line which…

Warner Marine ecoBAK NWF “biopellet sheets” are a new way to think about carbon dosing

Warner Marine ecoBAK NWF (non-woven fiber) is an extremely interesting concept, take a widely popular carbon dosing solution such as biopellets and reshape it into “biopellet sheets”. Those sheets now perform the same functions as biopellets but can be used…

Reef Octopus BioChurn gets more info and actually offers a very ingenious design

  The Reef Octopus BioChurn reactors are some very interesting bio-pellet spinning machines. When they first announced, we were not entirely sure how exactly they were supposed to work, but from the few available videos it was clear at least…

Rethinking biopellets and solid carbon dosing with Orca’s Nitra-Guard cubes

Orca Nitra-Guard and Nitra-Guard Titanium pellets caught our attention a couple months back promising to completely redefine carbon dosing. The new pellets claim four time as much carbohydrates per volume, and the Nitra-Guard Titanium pellets promised nitrate removal independent of…

RX-U reactors are the new line of premium media reactors from Vertex

Vertex RX-U reactors are the latest release from Vertex Aquaristik, and like many of their previous products these reactors are all about quality. The basic design of media reactors has been rehashed infinitely, but the RX-U reactors still manage to…

Reef Octopus BioChurn Biopellet reactors range from small to super sized

BioChurn Biopellet reactors are the latest biopellet reactors released by Reef Octopus through their US distributor CoralVue. The new line of BioChurn Biopellet reactors externally look externally very similar to other reactors, but promise advanced design that allows a more…

Nitra-Guard Bio-cubes from Orca Labs promises denitrification free of Redfield’s ratios

  Orca Labs Nitra-Guard Bio-Cubes are an interesting take on solid carbon dosing. A lot of our readers are likely familiar with biopellets and their assorted variations, but these appear to be completely different. Nitra-Guard Bio-CubesĀ  were originally invented in…

Lawrence Chan’s SPS reef from Hong Kong

Lawrence Chan’s SPS reef is just a plain nice looking SPS dominated aquarium. Great coloration, enough room for the corals to grow and a big hammer dominating the scape make this aquarium a pleasure to look at. Located in Hong…