Author Archives: Marcin Smok

Monitoring water quality is, without doubt, a key to healthy, flourishing reef aquarium. Just ask an experienced reefer what is his/her recipe for success and you can expect to hear two words- maintenance and monitoring. In order to maintain a fine balance in an enclosed reef ecosystem, one has to be able to know if the tank parameters are all in check. Temperature, salinity, pH,ammonia, nitrate, phosphates,calcium,magnesium, and alkalinity levels are amongst the most important parameters a true reefer should check on a regular basis. The tools used to measure those parameters range from test strips through liquid test kits to sophisticated aquarium controllers. The product I am reviewing today fits somewhere in between the last two, but it could also be placed in it’s own new category as it is an entirely new approach to the topic of maintaining stability in a reef tank. The device is called Seneye and it arrived in my mail from the other side of the ocean- the United Kingdom. What is Seneye? What is it’s main features and how well does it perform compared to other devices available for the hobbyist reefer? I will try to answer those and other questions in the rest of this review so stick around…… More: