At Reefstock Denver, I met many industry figures in person for the first time. Some of my best connections were those with Dr. Eli Meyer and Dr. Andrew Bouwma. Dr. Meyer owns Aquabiomics, and Dr. Bouwma is his colleague and…
Reef School is in Session With Red Sea’s Professor Sharon Ram
Since the beginning of the reef aquarium hobby, our understanding of what happens in our saltwater ecosystems has been a fine balance of art and science. Of course everything that we know is rooted in science and facts, but there’s…
New Tropic Marin ELIMI-NP and NITRIBIOTIC for nutrient reduction
Tropic Marin release a couple of new products, Tropic Marin ELIMI-NP and Tropic Marin NITRIBIOTIC, that help reduce nutrients in your reef aquarium. ELIMI-NP is a liquid carbon dosing concentrate and NITRIBIOTIC is a combination of both probiotic and nitrifying bacteria. We…
Reef Aquarium Carbon Dosing Clarified
Carbon dosing is a relatively new phenomenon in the reef aquarium hobby. The first I heard about it was around two years ago, and I hadn’t given it a whole lot of thought until recently. The goal of carbon dosing…
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…
Mame Nitoro Marine Bacteria lasts longer and comes in a squirt bottle for easy use
Mame Nitoro Marine bacteria is the latest addition to Japanese product manufacturer product line. The Mame Nitoro Marine bacteria solution contains the all familiar Nitrosomas and Nitrobacter bacteria, much like most other bacteria solutions on the market. What is interesting…
BioStimulant Crush and Liquid from Thrive Aquatics combines the best parts of liquid and solid carbon dosing
BioStimulant Crush & BioStimulant Liquid are two new carbon dosing solutions from Thrive Aquatics which combine the best of what we know about dosing biopellets and vokda dosing. The BioStimulant Crush is a small size bio pellet by Thrive which…
Marine Depot giving away Two Little Fishies NPX goodies, opens new carbon dosing Q&A forum
Marine Depot gets plenty of questions from customers on the whole gamut of probiotic and carbon dosing products from biopellets, Zeovit, Prodibio, etc., so they decided to open up a new section in their forum plus give away some Two…
N:P-X Biological Nitrate and Phosphate reducing carbon source from Red Sea
If you had any doubt regarding the claims reefers make about dosing vodka and other carbon sources to their tanks, the new N:P-X product from Red Sea should add a heaping tablespoon of credibility to the technique. N:P-X is a…
Natural Nitrate Reducer from Instant Ocean aims to deliver fluid form of Solid Vodka Dosing via Suspended Biodegradable Polymers
Natural Nitrate Reducer from Instant Ocean is one of the company’s latest products that claims to use “Suspended Biodegradable Polymers” which sounds very much to us like fluid Solid Vodka Dosing. Having another large company hitting the market with a…
