Ellery Wong
  • Ellery Wong

    Ellery is a mechanical systems engineer at a Fortune 500 technology company. He has automation experience in the automotive, appliance, printing and robotics industries as a product development professional but also has over 35 years of saltwater aquarium experience as a hobbyist. He currently maintains a 9 tank / 540 gallon SPS/LPS/Mixed systems. DIY is his forte!

Recent Content

Product Review: Hobby Artemia Hatchery

Product Review: Hobby Artemia Hatchery

Baby brine shrimp is a good food for nano fish and various corals. They have been around for decades and even sold as novelty aquarium pets called "Sea Monkeys" since 1957. Culturing live foods at home is a great way to maintain a natural nutrition source and is...

Product Review: Benepets – BenePellet Reef

Product Review: Benepets – BenePellet Reef

Press Release Info Benepellet Reef and Benepellet LPS will be currently offered in 3 sizes; 1.7mm, 2.5mm and 3mm pellets and in 3 different sized bags; 1.3oz (38g), 2.7oz (76g) & 5.3oz (152g). “Benepellet Reef is a pellet form of our tried and trusted powdered...

Planning for New Livestock Additions

Planning for New Livestock Additions

Without question, the primary reason we get into this hobby is for the livestock.  The varieties and colors that exist with marine life are immense; the number of curiosities that exist brings a new appreciation for ocean life and why we need to preserve it. Many tend...

Product Review: ReefEco Coral Wall

Product Review: ReefEco Coral Wall

Reef Eco is a fairly new solutions provider to our hobby, started by a hobbyist with excellent design/maker skills and a sense of entrepreneurship. As a product development engineer, I am always enthused to meet like minds who share this reef aquarium addiction.  Reef...

Moving??? Some Suggestions for You

Moving??? Some Suggestions for You

Recently a fellow local hobbyist made plans to move to a new house. I was asked to re-home some of his livestock and I offered to give him a hand in the process of preparing them.  Sure you can try to sell everything at a huge loss or if you are getting out completely...

Product Review: Reef Eco – Reef Tool

Product Review: Reef Eco – Reef Tool

ReefEco is a fairly new vendor in this hobby, and was created by a hobbyist who decided to combine his love of the hobby and his design/maker skills.  Along with the Stink Sink and the Coral Wall, now comes the Reef Tool. I would like to thank ReefEco for providing me...

Product Review: Simplicity Aquatics – 4 Head Dosing Pump

Product Review: Simplicity Aquatics – 4 Head Dosing Pump

Maintaining water chemistry is an important part of the reef keeping hobby.  With the cost of shipping salts increasing, dosing trace elements and other supplements has become another path to success.  Dosing can be simplified with automatic dosers, and there are many...

Reef Mentoring: Part 10 – 6 Month Update – The “B” Word

Reef Mentoring: Part 10 – 6 Month Update – The “B” Word

Preface: This Reef Mentoring article series is to document my recommendations to a hobbyist I have been mentoring. I am basically building a reef tank with his setup in my house and maintaining it for a year with weekly hands on sessions. Since the last update we were...