Aqua forest was founded 25 years ago in 1995.
And it's a Polish company and there are a huge company in Europe.
I believe they started as a substrate company and they made something else as
well,
but they've grown and they've expanded both freshwater and saltwater side and
they have well over 75 products. I believe now, I mean,
on the saltwater hobbyist site alone, you can find their salts,
their supplements, their rock, their sand, their fish, food, their coral food.
And not only that, but I believe they just released their own line of sumps.
I think they're coming out with their own line of aquariums.
There's a really cool 10 minute video,
all about the history of the company with highlights of their coral farm as
well. Oh yeah. Did I mention they have a coral farm,
really nice looking coral farm. If you want to watch that 10 minute video,
you can just check the link below up until doing this series.
I literally only owned one Aqua forest product
stone fix. This is impossible to find in the United States.
I usually go with, with glass heaters because I've used Phoenix before,
and I really liked the quality of their product. And not only that,
but it comes with a controller and I would always purchase like a BI temperature
controller anyways. So I might as well,
I didn't know aquifers made this. I knew they made live rock,
but I thought they only made like the flat white shelf rock, not this rock.
So check this out. It's even like a core line red color.
That's cool. Oh, there's a nice little artist.
That one is kind of a cool little swim through.
I'll be curious to see how it looks in the water because I'm used to a,
like a darker red that you get with like a real reef rock or a carob. See?
So I have to wait and see how this one looks.
The series is all about showcasing Aqua forest products.
We're going to use as many Aqua forest products as we can.
As we build this reef tank, we're going to be using the reef octopus,
Lux 90 all in one system. So it comes with a tank, the stand,
the plumbing, the protein skimmer, and return pump, and re octopus.
Also supplying us with a couple wave makers. So a big thank you to Reebok,
to pus, and of course, aquifers for sponsoring this bill,
By the way, links to all the gear here. I think almost all the gear,
if not all of the gear you can find at Marine Depot.
So just scroll down a little bit,
click on show more and I'll put the links right there. The forests starter pack.
I don't know what comes in. It. Let's find out 16 gallons, a reef salt.
It's a cute little bag, more reef, salt, 32 gallons, 48,
84 phosphate minus. I'm gonna look inside these things. So GFL the DFO
life biofilm. It's like the carob. See rebel rockets,
any kind of rebel rock or PON matrix. I will 100% be using this.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff in here. Carbon colors. I do use carbon,
not all the time,
but I use it occasionally to help with the smells and to help with the water
clarity. There it is.
Component a component B component seed,
replenish of barium and strontium heavy metal levels. Iodine and fluoride.
Yeah. Okay. This is just coral supplementation, fish V vitamins for fish.
A little vitamin for fish.
K H plus increases carbon hardness nitrate, test kit,
bio S nitrify and bacteria for startup guessing it's just a standard dropper
bottle. It's like the alkalinity test kit haka forests, laminate.
This would just be nice. It would just be nice. It must be nice.
It must be nice. Yes. A big thanks to aquifers. Yes.
A big thanks to reef octopus, but an even bigger, thanks goes out to coral view.
If you don't know who coral view is,
that's probably just because you're on the hobbyist end, coral views,
a distributor, and they distribute a whole bunch of products.
This was their grand ideas.
So thanks squirrel you for the opportunity to make these videos.
Magnesium test kit, accuracy, ICP, OES, verify. Yeah. See,
they have their own ICP life source. I have no idea. What's life source.
It feels like mud straight from Fiji. It has to be mud.
Natural mud does a board microbiology and reef aquarium.
One to the reef, octopus, Octo pulse, two generates massive water movement.
70 gallon tank. 10 times it'd be 700.
So we're looking at 20 times so that can put out a butt ton of flow.
So you are able to tilt it, which is really cool.
This looks like the exact same size as an MP 10.
And then how did it do that adjustment? Okay. So this goes inside. Okay.
And this is like this,
and this is what you can adjust so you can adjust it to go like that.
Right. So you can go like that. Okay.
Makes 200.
Gallons, but let's look mixed. 200 gallons. Okay. What is,
what is K? I don't have my phone on me. Ks iodine or boron.
Potassium is K potassium.
They also have a reef salt that has like probiotics in it,
which is supposed to be really good for the coral growth.
I'm just going to switch my tanks over from the red sea coral pro to this
because why not? Right? It looks,
it looks totally normal.
I'm happier with the alkalinity levels in this one because my tanks tend to run
high alkalinity.
Well, forest does this differently.
They ship it dry and then you have to get it wet,
live bacteria inside. How do we make it live?
Rinse and RDI water. Pour the contents of two bottles into three liters.
It doesn't make any sense. That makes sense to you.
Bottles of must be bottles inside. Oh, now it makes more sense.
Two bottles. It's really pretty white with some flecks of color.
It looks like some Browns and some blues
I've only ever used Kempsey sands.
So this be really interesting to see a little clear side to it. That's nice.
Is there anything about this? Is it wifi control? Oh,
it looks like there is an app, so that's cool. Let's get inside.
Does anybody use one of these mounting options? What, how does this,
what, how does this work? What, like my brain can't what?
How does that, what am I? I have no idea. Let's you? What does this term?
Okay. Uh, Alrighty then Matthew, your smart one. Here's the lights.
It's going to have decent spread. Look at this thing. This thing's a beast.
If you liked this video and want to see the rest of the aquifers
presents series, please do hit that subscribe button down below,
coming up next week in episode two, the tank heparin and everybody.