During Reef A Palooza Orlando, one new product that certainly stood out to me was CoralVue ‘s Hydros WaveEngine. By now, everyone knows (should know) that water flow is extremely importan,t and I feel that this is an invention that can be useful to anyone and everyone in the hobby. Check out [...]
The time of automated tanks is approaching fast, and making their Reef A Palooza Orlando debut was the Abex Xepta automated tester presented at the CoralVue booth. This unit was fascinating to me because it uses ionic probes instead of the reagent-based automatic testers that have been released for [...]
For this episode, I am saying goodbye to filter socks! I finally had the time to get a Klir filter and put it in my system. Automated floss mat systems have been flooding (get it? ok, sorry) the market lately, and it has been great seeing these things in action; they make mechanical [...]
Auto Top Off unit. One of the most overlooked but most important parts of our hobby, this mechanism was created and has made so many reefers’ lives easier by automating the top off process, stabilizing the salinity in our reef aquarium by properly replenishing the freshwater that leaves [...]
During Reef A Palooza 2018, we met up with Jack Behar, creator of Klir Filter to see if there were any updates on the highly anticipated Klir filter that he first presented at MACNA – Marine Aquarium Conference of North America 2017 in New Orleans. To our surprise, he went above and [...]
The felt filter sock is the current king of mechanical filtration in the reef hobby. Almost everybody who has a system with a sump uses one; it’s a simple, easy to use method of trapping uneaten food particles and other visible debris flowing in a saltwater fish tank. It has its downsides: it [...]
“The future is now, thanks to science!” Ok, I have been watching too many cartoons with my kids but I’m not kidding about this one! For this video, we spoke to Rabih Krayem of Reef Kinectics to talk about their automatic titration test machine. This unit was one of the [...]
As an extremely satisfied Reef Octopus skimmer owner myself, I was very excited to see that the company was presenting a brand new protein skimmer at MACNA 2017 in New Orleans. This new device, called Octo S-130, is the result of years of design and manufacturing experience, and it is loaded [...]