by Afishionado | Dec 9, 2018 | Equipment, Fish
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... by Marcin Smok | Nov 30, 2018 | Equipment, Industry, Technology
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... by ReefBum | Nov 21, 2018 | Corals, Equipment, Fish, Reef, Science, Supplements, Tanks, Video
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 elements? Let’s dig into this a bit. If both nitrates and phosphates are high then one can use Granular Ferric Oxide or GFO to lower phosphates and carbon dosing to lower nitrates. I used to run GFO on my reef tanks and it was certainly easy to use, but there were some downsides. If used too aggressively GFO can shock corals and cause SPS to fade. Another downside with GFO is that it will not by Marcin Smok | Nov 20, 2018 | Equipment, Science, Supplements
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... by Afishionado | Nov 12, 2018 | Equipment, MACNA, Video
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... by AquaNerd | Nov 1, 2018 | Equipment
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 aquarium glass however there are some differences between the two products. The IVS Portal is both a magnifier and glass cleaner for light duty cleaning. The Portal works with glass and acrylic thicknesses up to 1/2″ but it is really not designed to remove stubborn algae and coralline algae when it begins to grow on the glass. The DeepSee magnifier is not an aquarium glass cleaner but it will hold on to glass thicknesses up to 5/8″
