Red Sea’s Brand New Complete Reef Care Program
Over the past few weeks, Red Sea has released an entire new lineup of test kits and additives called the Red Sea Reef Care Program. The system is based on testing all of the essentials for your reef, then dosing those elements that your system lacks, as well as controlling excess nitrates and phosphates. The [...]
Peeing in Our Tanks to Jump Start the Cycle
I came across a very interesting thread on one of the forums discussing the act of urinating in a newly set up marine aquarium in an attempt to jump start the nitrogen cycle. The basic premise behind the theory is that ammonia in the urine won’t have to come from decaying organic matter typically found [...]
D-D Gets Into the NP Bio Pellet Game
D-D The Aquarium Solution, the company that brings us Deltec products and Giesemann lighting, has joined the solid carbon market with their Nutri-Fix NP Bio Pellets. These bio pellets, much like pellets from other companies, function as a food source for specific strains of nitrate and phosphate reducing bacteria. Also like other pellets, Nutri-Fix is [...]
Are Expesive Protein Skimmers Better?
There’s a never ending debate about protein skimmers raging on in aquarium-related forums across the globe, none of which are backed by anything other than personal experience and faulty logic. Many people claim that inexpensive protein skimmers work just as well, if not better than, the higher end models. On the other end of the [...]
Can Aquarium Water Be Too Pure?
With aquarium filtration becoming more advanced, a lot of reef aquariums are beginning to run extremely low nitrate and phosphate levels. Protein skimmers, bio pellets, chemical additives, and large/frequent water changes are doing what they are intended to do (e.g. remove dissolved organics), but are some aquarists going too far? Natural seawater does have detectable [...]
Brightwell Aquatics Katalyst Bio Pellets
Image from Marine Depot Brightwell Aquatics, a producer of all sorts of aquarium additives, is unveiling their own line of solid carbon source bio pellets called Katalyst. This media from Brightwell Aquatics works very similarly to other bio pellets, in that it serves as a food source to promote the growth of healthy bacteria populations. [...]
NP Reducing Bio Media from SWC
It seems that the nitrate and phosphate reducing media are really gaining traction in the hobby. For years, reef keepers had to rely solely on their live rock and sand bed to house all of their nitrifying bacteria populations and excess nutrients to feed these populations. Now, they’ve got a little boost in the form [...]
Redesign in the Works for the Tunze DOC Master Skimmers
Tunze has been extremely busy lately, releasing lots of updated and brand new equipment to beef up their already robust lineup of aquarium products. One of their latest updates includes a redesign of their Tunze DOC Master Skimmer lineup. The first, and probably most notable update to this lineup is Tunze has made two new [...]
Tunze Mangrove Box
Another product fairly new the aquarium industry is Tunze’s new Comline Mangrove Box. These boxes are designed to hold mangroves and other plants that are commonly used for nutrient uptake or decoration. Tunze also has Black Mangrove seeds (sold separately) that can be placed in the Mangrove Box to be grown out. Red Mangroves grow [...]
Update to “New ZEOvit Filter Media”
We recently announced the release of the New ZEOvit Filter Media, but at the time we wrote the article, there was little information about how the media was different than the old media. Well my ZEOvit guru over at the ZEOvit Forums has informed me that, “the zeolites [have] been refined some by Thomas [Pohl]. [...]
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