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  • Danilo Ronchi, aka DaniReef, is a hydraulic engineer from Italy and one of Europe’s leading reefkeeping voices. His passion for marine aquariums and photography led him to publish his first book “Marine Aquarium” in 2013, and since 2007 he has run DaniReef.com, the leading reefkeeping magazine in Italy. With more than 4,000 articles, technical reviews, event coverage, and in-depth photo reportages, DaniReef has become a trusted international reference for hobbyists and professionals. Today, he proudly collaborates with Reefs.com to share his knowledge with an even wider global audience

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Eheim pumps 1048, 1250 and 1260: The Total Comparative Test

Eheim pumps 1048, 1250 and 1260: The Total Comparative Test

Let's start with this article to speak about the numbers resulting from our tests, following the introduction that you can read here: Return Pumps: tests and real measurements compared, now we begin to analyze the first pump we had from Eheim, the Eheim 1048. The...

Interzoo 2012: The Aqua Medic booth

Interzoo 2012: The Aqua Medic booth

Interzoo, and always Hall n.4, there was another big giant of the aquarium world, which also played at home in Germany, Aqua Medic. It's been a pleasure to touch all the innovations presented, which were really interesting and at an high level. To me then there was...

Interzoo 2012: The Red Sea booth

Interzoo 2012: The Red Sea booth

Continuing in Hall 4, we also visited the Red Sea booth. What struck us most were undoubtedly the aquariums, modular, and complete, really well done. They had shows three different sizes of aquariums, the largest of which was really nice also for animals contained....

Interzoo 2012: The Prodibio booth

Interzoo 2012: The Prodibio booth

Walking inside the Stand 4, we visited the small stand Prodibio that  seemed extremely interesting. I presume that you all know the Prodibio as one of the most important companies in the production of bacteria for aquarium, and that therefore many of you have used the...

Return Pumps: tests and real measurements compared

Return Pumps: tests and real measurements compared

The project of the return pumps is now old and started with the previous article "return pumps: calculating the flow" that I invite you to read, and where I proposed an excel file, downloadable, editable with most of the pumps on the market, which were often...

Interzoo 2012: Sicce and LGMAquari booths

Interzoo 2012: Sicce and LGMAquari booths

In Hall n.4 of course we visited also the italian Sicce booth that also housed LGMAquari. Sicce is a famous brand that make and sell pumps in all the world, LGMAquari instead is a small italian company that create very good skimmers and calcium reactor and now very...

Interzoo 2012: The Tunze booth

Interzoo 2012: The Tunze booth

We continue our Interzoo tour with a visit to the beautiful Tunze booth where we upheld by Gianni, head of Tunze Italy. Gianni has immediately shown us the many innovations introduced by Tunze and as usual, I began to take pictures The first innovation was the new...

Interzoo 2012: The Elos booth

Interzoo 2012: The Elos booth

Continuing our comprehensive reportage about Interzoo, we arrived at the hall 4 where we saw the Elos booth. In the picture above the owner of Elos, Dr. Nicola Gandini, on the right, cheerfully greets us. As always, the Elos booth has been full of news and it was a...

Interzoo 2012: The Korallen Zucht booth

Interzoo 2012: The Korallen Zucht booth

One of the trade show areas that is most admired by visitors during Interzoo is surely the Korallen Zucht booth, where there are always incredible corals with absolutely fabulous colors. And this year, these corals have certainly not disappointed us. The colors that...