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At Saltwater we want to make checkout as seamless as possible and offer more payment options then anyone else in the industry. To that end we offer a variety of payment options so you can feel safe making your purchase and pay with whatever method your comfortable with. We accept 4 different digital wallets, Apple Pay, Amazon Pay, Google Pay and PayPal, we have 2 different types of financing, Affirm Financing/Split Pay and PayPal Credit. We also accept all your standard credit cards, American …

How Affirm (Buy Now, Pay Later) WorksAffirm is designed to offer you flexibility and control over your budget. Affirm offers rates from as low as 0% APR based on your credit. Actual rates will be shown at checkout. For example, for a loan amount of $700 you might pay $64 per month for 12 months at 15% APR. Down payment may be required. Visit https://www.affirm.com/how-it-works for more info.Affirm Offers a Split Payment option for smaller purchases and Installments for larger purchases.Split Pay …

Did You Know? We ship from Multiple Warehouses in Pennsylvania, Arizona and now Chicago IL? Did you know we ship orders from 3 different warehouses in Pennsylvania, Arizona and now Chicago IL?Did you know a large portion of our orders from 2-10 lbs. ship UPS 2 Day Air by default? Thanks to a special UPS Small Business program? (Yes, the Free Shipping Option)Did you know that via UPS or FedEx the Entire State of Florida is a 3 Day shipment via ground from our PA warehouse? (Yes, the Free Shippin …

This really isn’t an easy question to answer. This depends on your budget and at what level of difficulty you are trying to jump right into in this hobby. Perhaps you are completely new to the salt water hobby or maybe you have had a soft coral reef tank for a while and now you are ready to try something more difficult. I think it makes more sense for me to address a brand new hobbyist looking to jump into the reef aquarium scene for the first time. My first concern is going to be what so …

You can now control your Sicce SDC pumps inside of Apex Fusion. Sicce devices that integrate with the APEX include: Syncra SDC 6.0, 7.0 and 9.0, along with the XStream SDC Wave Pump. (more to come...) If you are interested in this integration, you will need to update the firmware on your SDC pump.  Sicce can do this for you, all you need to do it send an email.  For existing SDC owners, please send an email to: infous@sicce.com and provide them with the email address you use …

Neptune System has done it again, releasing an amazing new product. The SKY LED. The SKY is a 200w, LED aquarium light, with patented diffuser technology, that smoothly blends all of its 104 LEDs to create a homogeneous field of coral-health-optimized light — no hotspots, no disco-ball effect, no need to augment it with other lights or add-on diffusers — but best of all, none of the harsh shadowing and fractured spectrum found in most other popular lights.Link to the Neptune Systems SKY …

Reefing USA was created to put on a quality coral trade show. Our vendors/farmers are prescreened to meet our quality standards. They are some of the best in the country. They are committed to bringing simply the best corals from around the world.  Our vendors selection of beautiful corals and frags for your aquarium is some of the best in the world.  We specialize in high quality marine invertabrates that can really bring your tank alive. For professionals looking for high e …

Cyanobacteria is a bacteria that does photosynthesis. This isn’t a scientific paper so I’m not going to describe how it does this. All you need to know is that it is ugly and tends to show up during periods where you are not keeping up with the tank like you should be. Still, it can sometimes show up on little patches even in well taken care of tanks. It’s usually a slimy, deep brownish red substance that tries to carpet the rock work and your substrate. The easiest way to take care of it is to …

Hello citizens of the world. Can you spare a minute or two to talk about your Lord and Savior, wet skimming? No, I’m not going to proselytize to you about reef keeping methods, but I will do my best to explain it to you. Wet skimming is basically running your skimmer so the foam head is right up near the top of the neck. Skimmate (that’s what the liquid is called that your skimmer pulls out) falls into the collection cup at a much faster rate than normal. This is something you could do fo …