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- [Waylon] Reef-A-Palooza is a major aquarium show
held four times a year in four locations across America.
You can attend by signing up online,
and there are two Reef Passes available.
The Single-Day Pass for one day out of a weekend,
and the Diamond Pass that includes two days,
raffle tickets, and an early entry.
This year at the 2019 California Reef-A-Palooza,
Red Sea and Marine Depot gave out 300 free t-shirts
to the first attendees at the show.
We like to do this as a thank-you for visiting us,
and for your contribution to the hobby.
Without you guys, none of this could be possible.
If you attended this year, you would have noticed
our very fun game, the Wheel of Fortune.
At our booth, we had a whole bunch of free items.
I mean a whole bunch.
Spin the wheel, and wherever the marker lands on,
you win that prize.
All in all, we ended up giving away over $18,000 worth
of aquarium supplies to over 1,500 attendees.
We enjoyed every conversation we had with you guys,
and we were happy to answer any questions
you had about the hobby.
If you saw us in our new jawfish t-shirts and enjoyed them,
we do have them available on our website for sale.
This year, we wanna highlight
some of our favorite coral venders at the show,
and the newest products that caught our eye.
But first, here's what
the Reef-A-Palooza experience looks like.
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Our two favorite coral vendors we saw at this year's show
were NorCal Corals, and Unique Corals.
Their livestock definitely stood out to us.
I mean, look at all the beautiful SPS at Unique Corals.
They're just super happy and healthy.
We also enjoyed the sea anemones at NorCal Corals.
Their friendly service is top-notch,
and they will help you get started successfully.
At this year's show,
it was a little bit different than last year.
We noticed that there were some really neat touch tanks
that families could come visit,
and there were some amazing freshwater vendors
that we don't normally get to see here.
Ultum Nature Systems displayed some freshwater aquascapes
that really impressed us while we were there.
Up next, we were given the opportunity
to interview Carlos from Coralvue,
all about their amazing new pump controller,
which they call a WaveEngine.
It's called the HYDROS.
Hi, this is Waylon from Marine Depot.
- And this is Carlos from Coralvue.
- And we're here to talk about the HYDROS System.
Carlos, tell us about the HYDROS.
- Well first of all,
thank you for having me on your video, they're awesome.
The HYDROS System is a flow controller.
We take pumps from different brands, all sorts of brands,
and control them together as a single unit.
You can take Maxspect, you can take Reef Octopus,
and you can take IceCap pumps.
You can grab their controllers.
You can grab the power supply.
- [Waylon] Toss 'em out?
- Yeah, toss 'em out.
And you connect them directly to the WaveEngine.
The WaveEngine has four ports, okay.
So now you have the WaveEngine,
who's controlling and powering the pumps.
What happened?
You just got rid of four different controllers,
and four different power supplies.
Which means that your wife is gonna be pretty happy.
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And then the WaveEngine also has an Ecotech Marine Chip
inside that can actually send a signal,
so the WaveEngine becomes a master,
and then you just configure your MP40, MP10,
your Ecotech pumps to be slave.
And then you can connect as many pumps as you want.
- Terrific.
I also noticed another port up here, a 0-10 volt input.
Can you talk about that?
- Yes, so the easiest way to explain it is,
if you have an APEX, you can actually connect
the APEX variable speed port to this input right here.
And then you can actually configure your APEX
to send that particular signal.
So if I send a 2-volt signal, then I'll configure
the WaveEngine to start the feed mode at two volts.
But what if I wanna do water change?
I'll set the signal to three volts on the APEX,
configure the WaveEngine to start
water change on the three volts.
So you're allowing the WaveEngine to do what it does best.
Which is drive a pump, create flow patterns.
But still have the capability of grabbing an APEX,
or a third party controller,
and telling it when to turn off the pumps,
when to go to feed mode,
which is mainly what people are looking for.
So this WaveEngine actually is IP65 rated.
We do this by using these special GX12 connectors
that keep the WaveEngine completely sealed,
so there's no problem with splashing or rusting,
or anything like that.
- Now you spoke about the WaveEngine
as one component within the HYDROS family.
What else does Coralvue have in mind?
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- For that, you'll have to tune into Orlando MACNA,
and then we'll give you a little more.
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- I wanna give a special thanks to Carlos over at Coralvue
for introducing us to the HYDROS WaveEngine.
And to all the vendors who continually innovate
and take this hobby to the next level.
The show was filled with enthusiastic
hobbyists like yourself, beautiful corals,
terrific speakers, as well as the gadgets we all love.
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