The Grotech MacroAlgae Breeder is a natural biological filtration system to reduce excess nutrients like nitrate and phosphate in saltwater aquariums. The MacroAlage Breeder or chaetomorpha reactors such as this work best with red algae family (e.g. Gracilaria curtissiae) or…
Underwater video of ReefNatura showtank in Portugal is a sight to behold [VIDEO]
ReefNatura is a popular livestock and dry goods retailer located in Setubal, Portugal, with a seriously cool show tank. Maintained and designed by the store’s owner Ricardo Santos, a hardcore reef keeper like ourselves, the tank is definitely a sight…
GroTech adds NutriMarine LPS food to its catalog
Specialized coral foods have helped our hobby produce and maintain healthy and colorful corals and Germany’s GroTech has recently added the NutriMarine LPS food to its line of products. The new GroTech NutriMarine LPS food has particle sizes ranging from…
Jono Chang’s reef is a stunning system in New Zealand
Simply titled My SPS Reef Tank, we have don’t have a whole lot of information about Jono Chang’s reef from New Zealand, but we do know one thing for certain, this reef is stunning. Large SPS colonies with Acropora formosa…
GroTech ceramic knife is impervious to corrosion from saltwater
The GroTech ceramic knife is the first non-metal tool ever offered to reef hobbyists, that we know of. For all the tools we have for the marine and reef aquarium hobby, they’re still all metal, and all susceptible to corrosion…
PlanktoMarine Live, a new live plankton food from GroTech
GroTech PlanktoMarine Live is a new refrigerated, ultra-dense, live form of phytoplankton recently released to the German market. According to the company, the 20ml package of PlanktoMarine Live is comparable to a 1.8 liter bottle of traditional live plankton solutions. The highly…
Reef Stream pumps from Grotech look familiar
Grotech is releasing their Reef Stream pumps again, they were on a short break from production but apparently Grotech has taken it upon themselves to get these back on the market. You might remember other Reef Stream pumps for general…
GroTech’s new Reef Stream Professional RSP pump
GroTech has a new pump called the Reef Stream Professional RSP that looks a lot like a OEM pump from Honcar Honya. The same pump that the Red Dragon II is based off of abeit a different model. You remember…
Grotech’s new easy mix coral marine salt
Grotech reformulated their coral marine salt and came up with this new brand of “easy mix”. This new reef salt is produced with optimized calcium and magnesium concentrations which help to promote coral and coraline algae growth. Unlike the older…
Coco Carbon from Grotech comes from Coconut Shells
Grotech outs its new CoCo carbon, although this name sounds like a delicious hot chocolate drink of some kind Coco actually stands for something else. Coconut. Grotech is bragging that Coco carbon will outperform traditional activiated carbon by as much…