Video Tour of China’s Biggest Aquarium Show Part 2

The China International Pet Show towards the end of last year is a show so huge and sprawling that it literally took two videos just to bring you part of it. While the first video was mostly freshwater fish, the…

Video Tour of China’s Biggest Aquarium Show, CIPS part 1

If there’s one thing about the reef aquarium hobby that doesn’t even compare to the freshwater world, it’s the huge number of competitions in various parts of the hobby. Sure we’ve got some localized coral grow-out challenges but it’s not…

Chinese Companies are Serious About Aquarium Heaters!

If you were an aquarist in the 1990s and you were suddenly transported to 2018, you’d be very surprised to see that heater technology pretty much hasn’t changed, at least in America and Europe. Heater ‘technology’, if you can give…

Cyrex A1 LED With Articulating Side Clusters

The Cyrex A1 Series LED is an aquarium light fixture made by Zhongshan Ziaolan Nanfeng Lamps Factory. That’s about as much English information as we were able to glean from their giant booth at CIPS and the rest we’ll have…

Next Generation OW Propeller Pumps from Jebao

Love them or hate them, Jebao’s popular and affordable line of RW propeller pumps radically changed the landscape of water flow in reef tanks. They did this not through any particularly improved performance or feature set, and reliability aside, there’s…

New Magic Belt Roll Filters by Aqua Beast

The Magic Belt is a new Automatic Roll Filter from Chinese company Aqua Beast. The Magic Belt Automatic Roll Filter takes a step away from the smaller and more modular roll filters that are designed to be fit into tiny…

Cove I-120 is the company’s smallest protein skimmer to date

Cove has been making a name for itself as one of the most prominent protein skimmer brands to use the venerable AquaBee needle wheel pumps. The company has a wide ranging catalog of protein skimmer sizes and they’ve recently added…

RedStarfish’s new skimmer is an inception of Cones and Bubble Diffusers

Red Satrfish is a nascent Chinese aquairum brand that has been iterating on aquarium designs at a pretty rapid clip. Their newest RSN Plus cone protein skimmers is one of their first which is attempting to improve on the now-standard…

Coral Clamps are the first aquarium tongs with three ‘claws’

The bigger your aquarium is, the more of a pain it becomes to reach the bottom, the back of the tank, or the bottom of the back of the tank. Whether the rock or coral is fully out of reach…

New Reef Pulse Coral Food From Ocean Nutrition

Reef Pulse is a new complete coral food from Ocean Nutrition, one of the oldest makers of marine life diets. Rather than being aimed at any particular kind of coral, Reef Pulse includes a wide range of particle sizes to…