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 [...]
With the advancement of the internet and our hobby, we are now getting our information faster than ever. No longer are the days of snail mail or looking through books or even email for answers, you can access a plethora of information instantly with just the tips of your fingers. While it’s [...]
I am sitting down with a keyboard in one hand and a glass of ruby liquid in the other to write this short but (I hope) to the point review. I have to admit up front, I truly enjoyed testing the two products that are the topic of this article, for several reasons, all of which I will point out in [...]
It looks like this year will bring an abundance of new products for the aquarium market, and the segment of the industry that will be seeing the lion’s share of fresh innovations is reef-specific LED lights. I’ve been testing one of the newest LED panels for some time and wanted to share with [...]
Testing. An unavoidable curse every aquarium owner must face, a repetitive chore that takes us away from enjoying the life on the other side of the glass, but also a necessity when keeping a successful tank. There’s no better way to achieve and maintain the fine chemical balance in a living reef [...]
Waveline recently released their 2nd version of water pump. (Whatever happened to the first one?) To be completely honest, I loved their initial design concept from MACNA 2015. It had a incredibly sleek and low profile design, and when the finished product was showcased at the trade show in 2016, [...]
The majority of us dip our corals (if you don’t, please do so); the reason why is to avoid introducing potential parasites to our closed systems, which could cause catastrophic damage to our corals. What you should take account is that this doesn’t get rid of the eggs. There is no dip [...]
Over the last few weeks, I have seen several friends’ tanks crash and fall in nightmarish catastrophes. Motivated by these disasters, and with the hope of preventing this from happening to more reefers out there, I got together with my good friend, Henry Rodriguez, who is a veteran [...]