We previously showed you Yoon Yeo Kwang’s beautiful 100g aquarium, and now ZEOvit.com is putting it in the spotlight again with its Dream Tank of the Quarter Award. With its attractive aquascape, coralscape and coloration, Yoon’s aquarium is a deserving winner. A brief equipment and additive profile is included below, but be sure to check [...]
Left: the original NP BioPellets Right: The mistakenly high lipid content pellet NP BioPellets is offering free product replacements for customers who have mistakenly received a different biopellet version that contains an increased “lipids”. These fatty acids are shutting down skimmers for aquarists that have used them–a potentially serious issue when biomass export is required [...]
SWC is joining in on the carbon based biopellet rush with their new SWC Extreme NP Bio Media. Like the many other new biopellets that are already, or will soon be, on the market, the SWC Bio Media is a biodegradable substrate which provides a carbon based ‘food’ to grow nitrate and phosphate reducing bacteria. [...]
NpX Bio Beads are a new name, but are apparently not a new product. Canada based Oceanic Corals is now sourcing these denitrification beads from a “trusted manufacturer”. They openly state, “NpX Bio-Beads are produced by the identical manufacturer as the “other” European brand”. It’s not a real secret what these beads are or that [...]
A recent study performed by researchers from the Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute suggests that dietary probiotics may increase the success of captive breeding in marine ornamentals. Researchers supplied the bacterial strain “Lactobacillus rhamnosus IMC 501 to clownfish (A. ocellaris) larvae from the first day posthatch simultaneously [...]
Instant Ocean’s recently introduced Natural Nitrate Reducer is one of the new biopolymer products on the market aimed at reducing nutrient levels in your aquarium. The product has a gooey consistency filled with small plastic beads–I can only guess what the liquid portion of the product is, but we can say with fair certainty the [...]
