Ecotech Marine Radion G4 Pro is one of the highest rated aquarium products I have ever reviewed. I consider it a game changer, a big step to LEDs’ total dominance in the aquarium lighting branch of the industry. Today, more than a year after my review got published, I still hold that [...]
A few days ago, I shared a quick review of Coral Finder 3.0 from BYO Guides. In this post, I’d like to introduce what the manufacturers say is the “first interactive underwater ID guide.” Now I’ve no idea if this is truly the first or not, but I can confirm that [...]
Neptune Systems recently dropped a bombshell announcement on their new Official Neptune Systems Apex Community Group on Facebook, shedding some light on their current development schedule. There is some exciting news in the update and I’m here to break it down for you: 1. Voice control [...]
LED light emitters glittering over a reef tank’s water surface, providing life giving energy to the corals and other photosynthetic animals beneath, is as much of a typical sight nowadays as metal halides hanging over reef aquariums were in the nineties and early 2000s. The debate over the [...]
Since MACNA 2016, I have been keeping my eye on a product called Reef Bots, made by Reef Kinetics. What caught my attention is the constant testing that it does for us hobbyists, so that we don’t have to test manually, and that it makes adjustments according to the levels that are [...]
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For the last 4 weeks I have been running my 187 gallon reef tank without a skimmer as sort of an experiment. A few months ago I lost a number of corals due to what I believe were very low levels of phosphate in the tank. I run an ARID algae reactor and it does a great job pulling out nutrients. [...]
During CIPS 2018 in Shangai, we had the opportunity to visit the (very small) booth of an interesting Taiwanese company, AutoAqua, that was reintroducing its automatic water changer. We say that AutoAqua reintroduced its Smart AWC Touch because we already saw it during MACNA [...]