If my memory serves me correctly, my first aquarium was lit by a fluorescent lamp, most likely a fat T12 tube mounted on a shop fixture with no reflector, one that barely put out more useful lumens of light than an ordinary incandescent bulb. A few years later, I went...
I am going to make it easy for you this time around. If you just stumbled upon this review while researching an emergency device that may one day save the life of your aquarium inhabitants, or you simply like reading my reefs.com reviews (thank you :), I have only...
Breaking news- the Aqua Illumination family of reef aquarium LED fixtures will soon welcome its newest member, a pink dressed sibling of the highly popular nano light AI Prime. Yes, AI is going into the red side of the spectrum with the all-new Prime Fuge, the...
After combing through the box of products Fauna Marin sent me to test and write about, I picked two very similar things to be featured in this article. One is called Ocean Plankton, and the other is Arctic Plankton. Ocean Plankton and Arctic Plankton are liquid coral...
Precisely one year ago, I had the opportunity to review an interesting product called Reef Rax (shameless plug right HERE), a natural looking manmade piece of rock with one flat side, two magnets embedded in its structure, and a bunch of frag plug sized holes drilled...
Public announcement. There is a game changer from no other than Hanna Instruments, coming at the end of this year. Please share that post with your spouse/ parents/ kids, so that they know exactly what to get you this holiday season. The HI98319 waterproof salinity...
Are you one of these folks running a perfectly healthy reef aquarium, keeping an eye on all of your parameters, and making sure nothing is out of accepted standards? Do you feel unfulfilled when you methodically check your phosphate levels, only to find them to be...
Of the many products I received from Fauna Marin to be evaluated, I decided to choose a seemingly boring one, called Multi Reference, to be featured first. The reason behind my pick is this: I see Multi Reference as a uniquely distinct product that can replace several...
Walking down the aisles of Aquatic Experience and seeing rows of beautiful displays, talking to interesting people from the other side of the hobby, and generally being humbled by the strength of the freshwater aquarium industry was a worthy experience. In the last...
I started my venture into the aquarium hobby in a sort of run-of-the-mill way, a story I probably share with countless other reefers. I brought home a small freshwater tank, decorated it with some random rocks and a few hardy plants and then added a bunch of...