Marine Aquarium Terminology: Activated Carbon vs. Carbon Dosing

As if our hobby weren’t perplexing enough to the average beginner given all the oddball jargon we toss around, things can get doubly befuddling for novices when they come across two or more similar-sounding terms that actually apply to very…

Reef Toys P2O reactor uses advanced physics to discharge CO2

The Reef Toys P2O reactor is a brand new product category that strays far from the extremely thoughtful accessories and reactors that they’ve been making to date. It’s not too often something comes along which is completely new to the aquarium…

The Calcium Reactor: A Device Well Worth its Salt

A hobby like reef keeping has its fair share of intimidating technologies. I suppose it doesn’t help to call certain technologies sterilizers, fractionators, or reactors, which further instills a sense of complexity. One such device is the calcium reactor, and…

35 garden three quarter media reactors from Japan

35 garden is company from Japan dedicated to producing calcium reactors and media reactors, along with associated accessories. Their main calcium line 3 15 (three quarter) consists of six calcium reactor models, each featuring features ranging from very basic to…

Atomic Reef is back at producing nuclear reef aquarium equipment

Atomic Reef the company we initially covered for their macho and nuclear neon green reactors, is back to producing their acrylic reactors, skimmers, sumps and other products. Since covering Atomic Reef back in August and with the general spread of name…

Royal Exclusiv adds media filters to their Dreambox line up

Royal Exclusiv is releasing their own set of media reactors, and like all their other lines will be a classy as they are functional. Appropriately named the Dreambox media filters, the reactors are part of Royal Exclusiv Dreambox line which…

Avast Zeolite Reactor spotted in the Wild

Reefstock hasn’t even started and we already have a stack of new equipment piling up. Avast Marine Works is showing off their Spinning Zeolite reactor as a part of the Reef Stock raffle and of course we got our hands…

ZeoMatic 2 from Fauna Marin captured on video

Do you remember that  Zeomatic 2 we showed you not to long ago? To refresh your memory it  features a self cleaning system with both water and air cleaning.  Plus, you won’t need an extra air pump as the reactor…

ViaAqua Poly-Reactor Multi-Media Reactor PR30 can be used as hang on

When designing the new Poly Reactor, ViaAqua’s marketing department took it upon themselves to see how many times they could use “reactor” in the title. Sadly they used it one to many times. While noticing this is a multimedia reactor…

ZC Aquarientechnik Plankton and Artemia Reactor

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could for example instead of breeding your own phytoplankton and then slowly adding it to your tank when your corals/clams or other animals needed just slowly dose it regularly? This system should keep a…