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Mr. Saltwater Tank’s Review of the AquaIlluminations Wireless Controller

by mrsaltwatertank on December 18, 2012

Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are and continue to be very popular with saltwater tank hobbyists. Between the power savings, range of available colors and seemingly infinite controllability, LEDs are here to stay. AquaIlluminations released their wireless controller in an effort to bridge the gap between hobbyist’s wishes for wireless LED control and what’s available on the market. During my review of the controller, I’ve found it to be wireless with a catch and a big footnote. Tagged as: aquailluminations , fail safe , sol , Sol Nano , Vega , wireless LED controller See the article here: Mr. Saltwater Tank’s Review of the AquaIlluminations Wireless Controller… More:

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Mr. Saltwater Tank TV Friday Am Quick Tip #95: Clip, Write, and Be in the Know

by mrsaltwatertank on September 21, 2012

Navigating the maze (and tangles) of electrical cords around your saltwater tank is not fun.

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Tunze Silence pumps 1073.020 – 1073.040 – 1073.050: The Total Comparative Test

by danireef on September 13, 2012

This is, for now, the last post on our testing with various pumps, we hope to soon have others to compare with these tests. Today we talk about the Tunze Silence, and in particular 1073.020, 1073.040, and 1073.050. All in accordance to what you can read in our introduction: Return Pumps: tests and real measurements compared

Tunze Silence 1073.020

His technical characteristics are:

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Sicce Syncra Silent pumps 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0: The Total Comparative Test

by danireef on September 11, 2012

Let’s continue to speak about return pumps, following the introduction that you can read here: Return Pumps: tests and real measurements compared, and the test done with Eheim pumps: Eheim pumps 1048, 1250 and 1260: The Total Comparative Test, small Sicce Pumps: Sicce Syncra Silent pumps 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5: The Total Comparative Test and medium Sicce Pumps: Sicce Syncra Silent pumps 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0: The Total Comparative Test now we continue to analyze the biggest Sicce pumps: the Sicce Syncra Silent 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0.

Sicce Syncra Silent 3.5

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Sicce Syncra Silent pumps 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0: The Total Comparative Test

by danireef on August 24, 2012

Let’s continue with this article to speak about the numbers resulting from our tests, following the introduction that you can read here: Return Pumps: tests and real measurements compared, and the test done with Eheim pumps: Eheim pumps 1048, 1250 and 1260: The Total Comparative Test and Sicce Pumps: Sicce Syncra Silent pumps 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5: The Total Comparative Test now we continue to analyze the intermediate Sicce pumps: the Sicce Syncra Silent 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0. Sicce Syncra Silent 2.0 His technical characteristics are:… More:

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Sicce Syncra Silent pumps 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5: The Total Comparative Test

by danireef on August 8, 2012

Sicce Syncra Silent 0.5

The technical characteristics of which are:

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Eheim pumps 1048, 1250 and 1260: The Total Comparative Test

by danireef on July 16, 2012

Let’s start with this article to speak about the numbers resulting from our tests, following the introduction that you can read here: Return Pumps: tests and real measurements compared, now we begin to analyze the first pump we had from Eheim, the Eheim 1048.

The technical characteristics of which are:

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Return Pumps: tests and real measurements compared

by danireef on June 28, 2012

The project of the return pumps is now old and started with the previous article “return pumps: calculating the flow” that I invite you to read, and where I proposed an excel file, downloadable, editable with most of the pumps on the market, which were often recommended as return pumps in the forums and among hobbyists. The file made possible from the data of the pumps and the prevalence of each tank, get a pump flow rate calculated for each individual pump.

Although the file would be updated by anyone, I was always curious to know how pumps would behave in reality as well as declared by individual manufacturers.

During the Zoomark held in Bologna, Italy last year, we decided to contact some companies in the aquarium industry to do a comparative test of the pumps.

Some have enthusiastically joined, in true alphabetical order, Eheim, Tunzeand Sicce, and they have provided the pumps subject of our comprensive test.… More: