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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 freshwater plants. With the lid so well recessed, we walked by this display a dozen Read More

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 and auto-salinity controls, automatic water changes and more. The company’s base display units are sharp Read More

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 inform their customer base about what they’ve made and released over the past two years Read More

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 customary Elos fit and finish makes the third generation Elos Elite3S one of the best Read More

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 the Matrix LEDs which were ho-hum in a crowded market, but the Teszla is a Read More

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 the craftsmen from XenoXon have some interesting novelties included in their Coral Dongo protein skimmer. Read More

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 enough to pack 150 watts of discrete LEDs in just an 24 inch span. The Read More

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 found in the 12 watt SolarStinger Nano Flex LED and 36 to 52 watt SolarStinger Read More

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 of the “Nature Aquarium” school of freshwater plants first started by the godfather of it Read More

C-Blue’s LED striplights use unique triple-chip LEDs

There were so many different LED lights to see at InterZoo 2012 in Germany this year, it was hard to weed through all the noise to find the gems in the rough but along with that cool Aqualighter LED from the Ukraine, we found this cool Taiwanese striplight from Johnlen, makers of the thermoelectric chiller Read More

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