Five Simple Ways to Increase pH in your Reef Aquarium

A pH monitor may reveal reef tanks with a pH as low as 7.6 at night. Employ these five simple pH hacks to raise your pH to 8.2 and above, and watch your corals survive and grow much better than…

Hanna Marine Monitor does pH, Temp, & Salinity for $250!

The Hanna Marine Monitor is the kind of device we’ve been dreaming of for so many years we can’t even believe that it’s real. For just $250 the Hanna Marine Monitor will keep an eye on the three pillars of…

Using Chemical pH Indicator to Monitor Calcium Reactor pH

If you’ve ever wanted to dip your toes into the world of calcium reactors, you may have thought that the price of a reactor itself is not that bad, but the costs start to add up when you price out…

Reef Factory pH Meter Review: A Smart Option for pH Monitoring

The Reef Factory pH Meter is one of the newest and modest modern pH monitoring solutions to arrive in the aquarium hobby in a very long time. As important as pH is in all types of aquariums, it’s quite surprising…

PASCO Wireless pH Sensor Can Log for up to 90 Days

Reef Aquarists are rapidly learning the paramount importance of pH in our mineral rich reef aquariums because it drives the entire process of calcification in stony corals and all calcifying invertebrates. There are many different options for measuring pH in the…

Is a $25 pH Monitor Even Any Good?

When I started keeping aquariums in the mid 1990s a pH monitor from Milwaukee Instruments or American Marine cost around a hundred dollars. Do you know how much they cost today around twenty five years later? They’re still roughly the…

Milwaukee Instruments DL Black Box pH Controller

Milwaukee Instruments is a company who’s name is synonymous with pH monitoring and control. Long before pH measurement was incorporated into do-it-all controllers, Milwaukee Instruments was already the leader in critical measurement of pH. After temperature and salinity, pH is the most…

Kalk King gets thorough video overview of its working

Kalk King is an exciting new automated Kalkwasser dosing system by E-Fins, who you might recall from the Algae Mower Vac. We thoroughly covered the workings of the Kalk King, but E-Fins just released a video with an overview of their automated…

Lifeguard by Digital Aquatics screenshot image teased

We’ve heard quite a bit about Digital Aquatics new Lifeguard device, but recently they have released a teaser image of what the software might look like. Following in Seneye’s footsteps, you will see a new graphic interface set to display…

Lifeguard Aquarium monitoring device spotted by mr blurrycam

Digital Aquatics, the US based aquarium controller company, has just released a teaser image of their forth coming Lifeguard monitoring device. Lifeguard will keep track of three important parameters including aquarium pH, temperature and water level. For just $219, the Digital…