Top 10 products and stories of InterZoo 2012

You may have noticed an unseasonal uptick in the amount of activity regarding the marine aquarium trade in recent weeks, and this can mean only one thing; InterZoo, the biggest pet trade show in the world is happening soon! No…

AquaLEDs.DE circular lid-light elevates the form and function of LED lighting

Forget the specs, the features the dimming and the lightning – just take a look at this awesome LED light built by AquaLEDs.DE. This stunning cylinder aquarium displayed at InterZoo 2012 looked every bit like a giant vase of showy…

Italy’s Oceanlife debuts hi-tech, automated fish display system

We saw the line of Oceanlife food at Interzoo 2012 and now have some intriguing information on the new concept the company is exploring — hi-tech aquarium display systems for retailers. These smart systems come loaded with features from automatic light adjustments, top off…

New video asks Ecotech, Thrive, Nyos, Caribsea and Ocean Nutrition why they love InterZoo 2012

InterZoo 2012 may be starting to become a memory for those of us who attended, but the effect of attending this highly influential pet business and trade show continues to grow. InterZoo is a place where vendors and manufacturers can…

Elos Elite3S gets the full unboxing and teardown treatment

The Elos Elite3S is one of the most high profile product unveilings of InterZoo 2012 and what we saw certainly did not disappoint. A bevy of mounting options, modular LEDs and secondary optics, active and silent cooling coupled with the…

Giesemann Teszla hands-on is a piece of LED art

Giesemann’s Teszla LED light looks as beautiful as anything Giesemann has ever made, and even more beautiful in real life than renders and product shots could ever convey. The first forays into LED lighting by Giesemann included the Quazar and…

XenoXon Coral Dongo skimmer is well built with a hardened-foam mesh-wheel impeller

XenoXon is a new company from Hungary making unique skimmers and LED lights which we first encountered at InterZoo 2012. The protein skimmer landscape in the marine aquarium industry may be dominated by manufacturers from China, Germany and America, but…

This is what the MaxSpect Razor looks like in real life

If you thought the MaxSpect Razor LED looked good in the pre-InterZoo renderings, just wait till you get a good look at pictures of the real thing. The aptly-named Razor is incredibly thin, not thin like the AquaPad, but thin-with-heatfins…

SolarStinger Nano Flex and Cluster LED from EconLux packages multicolor multichip LEDs

SolarStinger is a new line of LED aquarium lights from EconLux which is one of the few ways to taste the sweet, sweet magic of multicolor, multichip LED light. After the Kessil Dense Matrix Array LED, Econlux’s rainbow cluster LED…

Oliver Knott displays extreme aquascaping creativity in the Anubias booth and all over InterZoo

Any saltwater aquarists who’s been keeping fish or corals for some time knows that the freshwater aquarists have us trumped when it comes to making beautiful displays of aquarium nature. Most of this exposure to freshwater planted aquariums will be…