We have been unabashed fanboys of NanoBox Reef LED lights since their very first model of LED aquarium fixture. With so many manufacturers offering well-polished and highly refined mass-produced fixtures, we’ve often been asked what is it about NanoBox Reef’s…
Hydra HyperDrive LED interview with Aqua Illumination
The HyperDrive generation of the Hydra 26 & 52 HD LED light is the most significant advancement in high tech LED reef aquarium lighting in a long while. First introduced at MACNA a month ago, the HD edition of the…
Mandarin shark is alive and well in this feeding video
The Mandarin Shark that swept the aquarium and shark world by storm last week is alive and well at Country Critters in Long Island, New York. Despite being harvested from the deep waters of the Northern Philippines just about a…
Cool video shows the whole process of exporting fish from Mauritius
We like to promote the marine aquarium industry, and particularly the export of tropical marine fish, as a force for sustainable harvest of marine fish, sometimes undertaken by tight knit families living in coastal island communities. Nowhere is all of…
Mizune has a perfect little reef tank
With so much of the American reefing hobby getting caught up in collectoritis of fuzzy sticks with silly little names, we turn to Japan for an example of what a beautiful reef tank is supposed to look like. Beauty is subjective but any…
Channel design of Eshopps Advance sumps explained on video
The reef aquarium hobby is enjoying quite the renaissance of reef aquarium sumps, and Eshopps is going all in with their radically designed ADV sumps with ECD. If you haven’t seen one of Eshopps new channeled reef aquarium sump filters…
Nemo Marine underwater drill might be a must-have for the hands-on reefer
Nemo power Tools is a new company that has literally made a big splash with a couple of underwater tools that are unlike anything on the market today. Nemo makes an underwater drill and an underwater angle-grinder, but for the…
NOVA’s Lethal Seas program is a simple lesson in Carbonic chemistry
On a very basic level, some reefers kind of understand the interplay of carbon dioxide, carbonate, carbonic acid. However we’re not quite as sure that saltwater aquarists really understand how these chemicals affect pH and alkalinity, and especially how it…
Vectra pump live Q&A Google Hangout with Ecotech Marine (Updated w/ video)
We are in Allentown PA with EcoTech Marine for the launch of their new centrifugal return pump, the Vectra M1 and L1. We already know that this controllable DC pump will be fully controllable with EcoSmart Live and that it…
Video teardown of the MindStream aquarium monitor
It was super cool to visit the heart of the research and development of the MindStream aquarium monitor and pick the Step Ahead Innovations team’s brain about how their device works inside and out. However while we were there, we…
