Aqamai, owned by the Italian manufacturer Hydor Group, is a completely new brand of products.  The line is designed and manufactured in Italy, and is targeted to a specific client base - a modern reefer that cares about both looks and functionality in aquarium...
I am happy to report that this year’s MACNA show attracted a large number of European companies, who were eager to promote their products with a plan to enter the highly competitive American markets. One of the biggest surprises came from a largely unknown in the US...
Tunze Aquarientechnik, the legendary Bavarian company, had a minimal setup this year at MACNA, but all of the manufacturer’s latest products were on display and there was quite a crowd at the booth. The soon-to-be-released wave pump, Tunze Stream 3, took center stage,...
V2O Foods is a fairly new company, yet its product line is impressively extensive. The brainchild of Ocean Nutrition founder Christopher Turk, V2O makes various foods, nutrition supplements, and feeding tools for the aquarium market. Ranging from the (as the owner...
Milwaukee Instruments, a North Carolina-based manufacturer of professional grade diagnostic instruments, is a long time player in the aquarium industry, both at the commercial and hobby levels. They were one of the first companies to introduce consumer-level testing...
Neptune Systems, manufacturer of the highly prized Apex Aquacontroller, once again managed to stand out from the crowd at MACNA 2016 with their expansive, well-designed booth. We had the chance to see some brand new additions to their line, as well as prototypes of...
SpectraPure's line of RO/DI filtration devices are true workhorses in many aquarists’ homes, mine included, and their presence at MACNA in San Diego didn’t escape my attention. I stopped at the SpectraPure booth on Day 2 of MACNA and had an opportunity to talk to...
People get pretty excited when a company like Ecotech Marine is present at conferences, and MACNA 2016 was no exception. This year in San Diego, the manufacturer’s booth was dominated by a single product: the recently announced 3rd iteration of their...
Germany's Aquamedic is famous among reefkeepers for being the first company to popularize the automatic dosing pump. As hobbyists realized the importance of supplementing their reef tanks with calcium and alkalinity buffers, the Aquamedic Reefdoser was their first,...
Once in a while, a new, unorthodox idea pops up in the hobby. Sometimes, that idea materializes into a product that raises eyebrows, and can potentially revolutionize the market. I remember things like that toilet-paper looking filter from D-D that never really caught...