Urbain Appeltan’s reef is an impeccable aquarium filled with fish and coral
This masterpiece coral aquarium is a reef system belonging to Urbain Appletan, a Belgian reefer who has made somewhat of a name for himself. This same aquarium with a different lighting configuration had already been voted the best reef tank in Belgium, perhaps not a big country but filled with some amazing reef tanks, something Read More
AI Powerpuck LEDs up for preorder, shipping in April
The AI Powerpuck is so close to making the Vega the most customizable LED reef aquarium light ever that we can almost taste it. If twenty LED channels of control isn’t enough to get you hot and bothered about the AI Vega, then perhaps selecting the colors for twenty different LEDs will do it. Long Read More
AI Upgrade Kit for Sol to Vega LED up for pre-order, shipping this month
AquaIllumination has formally announced a Vega Upgrade Kit to let all the Sol users out there get some next-gen LED action as well. Using the heatsink, fan and power supply of the AI Sol, the Upgrade Kit brings new lenses, new LED PowerPucks, four new 4-channel drivers, a main board and a plastic enclosure to Read More
AI Director is AquaIllumination’s solution for simplified wireless control
Reefstock is well on the way, and the AI Director is the perhaps one of the hottest products on the floor of reefstock. Setting out to connect your AI fixtures to the internet easily, the AI director serves as a dedicated dongle for your LEDs. Simply connect your fixture to the AI director wirelessly, make Read More
AI Sol and Vega LEDs get a massive deployment at DeJong Marinelife
DeJong Marinelife is a world-class wholesaler that has gotten a lot of love from Reef Builders for good reasons. We got a look into DeJong Marinelife’s operations through a video two years back, but since then they’ve made the switch to all AquaIllumination LEDs and their fixtures of choice: the AI sol and Vega LEDs. Read More
AI Sol hits ridiculously low price of $349, show special only
We thought the AI Sol was one if the best values in LED lighting with an everyday price of $400 but apparently Sunlight Supply and Capistrano Reef thought it could go lower. During Reefapalooza only Capistrano Reef is offering the venerable LED workhorse AI Sol for the ludicrous price of $349 with the controller selling Read More
AI Vega LED delivers more than doubles the features in half the size of the AI Sol
As far as the generational upgrades of LEDs go, the increase in performance and reduction in size from the AI Sol to the AI Vega is about as impressive as it gets. The AI Vega already made a strong impact on us with its many colored LEDs and neat programming features before exact details were even Read More
AquaIllumination’s AI Director web based LED controller is buttery smooth to navigate
While at MACNA we dropped by the AquaIllumination booth for a little one on one session with the AI Director. Like many other controlling services, AquaIllumination has made the AI Director agnostic of hardware or software by building a web-accessible cloud-based controller so you can hop online with any device and get clicky with your Read More
AI EXT mouting system streamlines getting Sol and Vega LEDs over your tank
The AI EXT mounting system is the name for the recently released rails, tank mount and hanging kit for AI Sols and the AI Vega. First spied at the AquaIllumination MACNA booth, the gorgeous as heck EXT mounting system make short work of getting some of the best LED lights over your reef tank, in Read More
A closer look at the AI ‘Phoenix’ LED and comparison next to the AI Sol and AI Nano
Even if the AI ‘Phoenix’ didn’t light up, it would still be one desirable slab of modern industrial design. Compared to the AI Sol the AI Phoenix is the same footprint but much thinner with special attention paid to every line of its appearance. The actual physical dimensions of the Sol Phoenix are 11.875 x Read More