Photo credit : Marcin Smok A few days ago, I received a surprise present from my friend Louie at Eshopps. He had seen me eyeing this piece at previous shows that we attended together and decided to send me a care package. I was particularly interested in this model because I believe [...]
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 “between 0.10ppm and [...]
What? Dosing nitrates to get rid of cyano? A common piece of advice when battling Cyanobacteria or cyano is to lower nutrients since cyano can be fueled by high phosphates or nitrates (cyano can also pop up due to elevated organics). So wouldn’t it be counter-intuitive to raise one of these [...]
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 others available on the [...]
During this year’s MACNA, Kessil finally released the highly anticipated successor to their wildly popular 360 series. I met up with my friend David Lowry of Kessil to learn everything about this amazing new light from Kessil. Enjoy! MACNA 2018 – Introducing Kessil X. [...]
The Flipper Magnet has become a household name for their popular Flipper aquarium glass cleaner magnets and recently we learned about a new product they are releasing next month and called the DeepSee. Similar to the IVS Portal, the DeepSee will magnify objects between 3″ and 8″ away from the [...]
More control through power loss monitoring With the GHL Power Cut adapter, you can now trigger emergency backup functions and receive notifications when an outage occurs. This is a feature that many GHL aquarists will be happy to hear about. How it works The ProfiLux Power Cut Adapter [...]
At long last, Orphek presents the light mounting arm kit for its ceiling lights. Hobbyists have been waiting for this system for a long time, as hanging the lamps from the ceiling is not always easy or possible. Both the Ecotech Marine Radion and the Aqamai LRM, two similarly [...]