Tunze Wavebox review, preliminary testing finished
"The easiest analogy to help get our heads around the functioning of the Tunze Wavebox is to think about what happened when you got into a bath as a child."
"...well built, with pleasing attention to detail. Making use of the tried and tested Tunze Stream pump technology. It produces a natural looking wave effect, in an energy efficient manner..."
"Tunze does unfortunately appear to have problems with some wavebox units suffering electrical failure"
Latest news: Tunze responds to our concerns over Wavebox power supply failure with news of a recent redesign.
Tunze USA "We completely changed the wavebox pump in July of 2007, only older pumps have this large bulky transformer. The old transformer has a safety shut off switch but the temp of shut off is high enough to cause some plastic deformation. New pumps use a laptop power supply which shuts off at a much lower temp."
The Solaris LED lighting system coming to the end of it's test period
Preliminary tests show good power savings. Some of this saving appears to be due to a vastly reduced heating effect, compared to metal halides, resulting in a cooler house and an almost redundant aquarium cooling system. Now is the time to write in (via an email with subject Solaris) with questions you would like us to put to Solaris, I will be talking to the company in May. The full review will be ready a few weeks after this.
Read my Initial Solaris LED Pendant Review
Aquamedic's plankton reactors, testing now under way
They are well known for producing high quality equipment, and so far I have been extremely impressed with the build quality and function of both the light reactor and zooplankton reactor. You can read my initial impressions here.
The first batch of live algae is growing well (and very fast) using Gillards f/2 Formula.
This review has been made possible with the kind support of Wickford Aquatics (UK), for the light reactor and Bromley Aquatics and Reptiles (UK) for the Zooplankton reactor
Read my Initial Review of Aquamedic's Plankton Reactors
Have your say, pick products for review in late 2008
I am pleased to say that I have received some interesting suggestions for future reviews of products. Keep them coming by using the form on the contact page. Please use 'Review' when filling in the subject box.New High Quality Reef Cam.
Not all webcams are built equal... .. .
We have teamed up with Isec Solutions -suppliers of advanced IP technologies, to bring you the best.
The new reef camera provides a vastly superior picture, combined with pan, tilt, and zoom capabilities. see more ...
Introduction to Corals and their classification.
On the face of it, when you look around, you could be forgiven for thinking that we are the most succeseful form of life on this planet. Well not quite, inverts have a slight edge over us accounting for a stunning 95% of the planet's creatures. read more ...
Factors affecting Algae growth in the Reef Aquarium
Algae is a normal part of a reef aquarium. In fact it is an important source of food for both fish and inverts that make up the mini ecosystem that we enjoy so much.
Predation usually keeps the algae in check, problems only occur when favorable conditions enable the algae to grow at a rate that exceeds its consumption.
So the question is when you do get an algae problem, what is it that is giving the algae an advantage. For this we need to look at... . . read more
Does your Reef Tank have Perfect water ?
Many people who now enjoy reef keeping probably spent vast quantities of money, time and mental anguish trying to reach, and then maintain, the target of perfect water parameters. ........ and the attempts to reach them can be highly de-stabilising. read more ...