A new product unveiling from Reef Octopus is always exciting; you can be sure that whatever it is they’ve been working on, it’s going to be interesting. And indeed, it is interesting. The new Octo Blade is a DC powered gyre style propeller pump that looks like a half-gyre, but it’s also [...]
The Italian manufacturer Hydor needs no introduction; anyone that has been in the hobby long enough has stumbled upon a piece of their extensive collection of aquarium equipment at some point in their reefing life(Koralia, anyone?). Their catalog expanded recently with the introduction of a brand [...]
After handling the small KPS, today we have the next step in its evolution, Aqamai KPM. Aqamai KPM is born from the same revolutionary project of its little sister KPS. It is an extremely small pump, with fully adjustable direction thanks to the fantastic insight of the magneto-suction cup. It is [...]
IceCap just recently announced a new line of skimmers called the K1. Not more than two weeks later IceCap is back in the news with additional product announcements. Spoiler alert, more to come. The first product announcement is the new IceCap 1K Gyre pump. The pump was built with smaller reef [...]
The new, tiny Aqamai KPS pump finally arrived, and we were eager to give it a complete test. It was presented as an advanced concept at Interzoo 2016, seen in action at the PetsFestival 2016, and now it’s available to the [...]
Sicce booth at MACNA featured some brand new products, as well as their flagship LED lights and pumps. Water flow enthusiasts should check the new Voyager line of pumps and their dedicated Wave Surfer [...]
After the test we did recently on Tunze pumps, we had commented about return pump electronic Tunze 1073.050, a pump with incredible skills, had not been impressed us with data we measured. After promptly contacted the company in conjunction with the publication of the article of the test, the same [...]
This is, for now, the last post on our testing with various pumps, we hope to soon have others to compare with these tests. Today we talk about the Tunze Silence, and in particular 1073.020, 1073.040, and 1073.050. All in accordance to what you can read in our introduction: Return Pumps: tests and [...]
