For this video, Remy and Salem dropped by Remy’s fellow St Louis reefer Amer’s house to check out his 150-gallon mixed reef tank. The roughly square Innovative Marine EXT contains a variety of corals from Bounce mushrooms to Torches and…
The importance of pH in the reef tank
Over the years a number of different aspects of reefkeeping have either become a hot topic or have been forgotten by the hobby. When I was starting out one of the parameters that was focused on was pH, which stands…
Flashback Friday: When Jake Talked About How To Increase pH Using Kalkwasser
If there’s one thing we should all do this weekend, it’s rewatch this brilliant video by the late, great Jake Adams. In the video and accompanying article, Jake nails some really fundamental points about pH, the numbers he aimed for…
Improving Carbon Dioxide and pH Management
During the early years of the hobby, some of the factors that were most intently looked at were calcium levels, pH, and salinity. Over time these have kind of faded from being thought of as critical and have been replaced…
We Tanked our pH Using Automation, but the Fix is Simple
For the last few years we’ve been part of a cabal urging reefers to really push their aquarium pH ever higher to achieve robust stony coral growth. There are lots of little things you can do to elevate the pH…
The Versa Might Be the Only ‘Smart’ Pump With Continuous Dosing
The Versa from Ecotech Marine is a dosing pump with many different applications, making it versatile for a wide range of utilities. It’s programmable, controllable, and most reefers will use it for precise dosing of additives and water changes, but…
IceCap Kalk Reactor Review, a Modern Take on a Classic Method
The IceCap Kalk Stirrer is the first new version of this device we’ve seen in the aquarium hobby for way too long. Adding a concentrated solution of Calcium Hydroxide (CaOH), also known as Kalkwasser, was one of the first forms…
Icecap Releases the first NEW KalkStirrer in Ages!
The IceCap kalkwasser reactor or kalk stirrer is one of the first new models of this kind of device we’ve seen in a really long time. As you know we are big believers in the dosing of kalk in our…
Avast Marine’s Kalk Stirrer is Surprisingly Easy To Build Yourself
The aquarium hobby has always had a strong spirit of doing it yourself, for many it’s one of the big appeals of this aquarium world. Some aquarists like building everything from scratch but for the rest of us there’s Avast…
IceCap Magnetic Kalkwasser Stirrer Prototype Spotted at MACNA
The Icecap Magnetic Kalkwasser Stirrer is a type of kalkreactor which could make dosing kalkwasser cool again. Dosing a solution of calcium hydroxide is one of the oldest ‘methods’ in reef keeping so any device that can streamline that process…
