There’s a relatively new class of reef aquarium and saltwater fish tank sump that have started to include built-in sections to function as reservoirs of freshwater to feed an automatic top off system. If you caught our last project building…
Sera Prefix is an Interesting Take on a Media Reactor
The Sera Prefix is a unique media reactor from Sera which is both practical and affordable. Looking more or less like a motorless canister filter, the Sera Prefix is specially designed to add media filtration to a wide range of…
How Much Waste Does a Filter Roll Remove?
Since the advent of automatic filter rolls, no one has been more keen on this approach to mechanical filtration making it to consumer grade than us. Since 2010 we’ve watched as automatic filter rolls have gotten smaller, cheaper, and more…
Marine Aquarium Contingencies I Never Anticipated
If you’ve been watching the news lately, you may have heard about the massive Microcystis algae outbreak that is currently affecting the western basin of Lake Erie and, from this past Friday until around 9:30 this morning, rendered the tap…
New Sicce Whale canister filter
Sicce has launched the Sicce Whale canister filter with four sizes to handle the filtration needs of a variety of tank sizes. Although these aren’t commonplace in reef systems, the Sicce pumps and filtration volume available makes this an interesting…
