By removing all walls of the stand, the Turboflotor 5000 Shorty skimmer, the Blue Reef 2000 sump which consists of a biological and mechanical filtration system, the OceanProp 1500 current pump controllers and other control systems are viewable from all angles. Sticking to all Aqua Medic products, plumbing, connections, and controls easily tie together as if all products were manufactured as one single unit. It is nice to see people get a kick out of what is outside the tank as much as inside, including the Aquaniveau auto top off system.

One unique feature which stands apart from other systems is the refugium made of a small sleek tank plumbed into the sump but as a separate unit containing its own waterproof power compact lighting system. We added macro algae and chaetomorpha to the refugium to remove excess nutrients keeping our water algae free. The more complex but user friendly AT Control System allows us to monitor the water quality away from the office, anywhere in the world. Although it is nice to have an attractive exterior, the focus and reason we all have fish tanks is to display what is inside the tank. We went with the lowest profile eight bulb Ocean Light T5 lighting system on the market, hung neatly over the six foot tank.

You try to replace the major and trace elements that your corals deplete, you try to mitigate the accumulation of waste that your fish contribute and you automate your top-off routine to maintain a consistent salinity. Why? Well, because these captive reef systems respond to consistency and stability with an overall vibrancy that can otherwise be elusive. You can actually see the difference that is why you have invested in the products necessary to provide that stability while freeing you as much as possible from the tedious rigors that can accompany this level of attention.

We imagine that you would immediately see the value of receiving regular precise measurements of the essential water quality parameters that you are continually working to adjust, optimize and stabilize. How do you decide what adjustments to make to your calcium reactor or nitrate reducer? How do you decide how much iodine or molybdenum to dose? Would not your process for making these weekly decisions change dramatically if you knew the concentration of that parameter down to the thousandths of a milligram per liter? And if you had precise data from weeks past could not you begin to accurately evaluate the effectiveness of your routines and regiment? Home test kits are expensive, messy, toxic, and time consuming. They do not have the accuracy to provide you with a meaningful stream of data and most of us find them too complex to perform regularly. We take out the “human error” aspect of home tests, and let our Spectrophotometer take care of reading your results.

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