As coral nuts, we have an incredible appetite for blue and purple lighting. The short wavelengths help our fluorescent colors pop and flood our rooms with the calming glow. To satiate our hunger for the purple lighting, Build My LED analyzed one of the most popular purple T5 lights and created this spectrum. By utilizing a blend of Read More

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Don’s High Tech reef tank, built by Blue World Aquarium, is an exercise in futurism resulting in a stunningly unique marine aquarium ‘machine’. Blue World Aquariums first crossed our radar with their XBOX 360 master piece, and they’ve clearly not been sitting still since. With an electrical canopy system, touch screen, underwater webcams, remote fish feeding software, Read More

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Over the last few years, I migrated every reef tank I have to LED, even a little freshwater nano is running LED. I think there is a huge future in LEDs and switching to LED changed my view on lighting and brought on some serious thinking about our disposable consumerism. The longevity of LEDs makes Read More

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History was made when around three months ago, the first footage of a giant squid was caught. Not only was video produced, the giant squid was captured in some seriously high definition resulting in absolutely stunning footage. Part of the Giant Squid team was Edith Widder, one of the experts in marine bioluminescence; an expertise Read More

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Philips, the lighting company behind the Luxeon series of LEDs that are used by a number of aquarium fixture makers, recently announced that they have a prototype LED lamp that is hitting an efficiency of 200lm/W. The 1500lm, 3000-4500K, 7.5W lamp, called TLED, shows us a promising glimpse of what the future will hold for LED lighting. Read More

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The Quadspec V2 LED PAR 20 bulbs are exciting new spotlights from MarineReefLED, with a great visual appeal and pretty unique spectrums . We got our hands on the PAR20 Quadspec spotlight and the PAR20 Fiji Blue spotlight and in person these are definitely very nifty spotlights. Consuming only 15 watts these lights are meant for Read More

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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and with this LED fixture we spotted — the Maxspect Razor definitely should be flattered. We recently heard about this similar-looking fixture from Clovers LED, an equipment wholesaler in Asia, that bears an uncanny resemblance to the Razor. This clone fixture has nearly the identical housing of the Razor and features 108W of Read More

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The highly anticipated Kessil A360 LED pendant is now available marked by the new A360 product page going live on the Kessil website. We were able to see these first hand at Reef Stock earlier this month and if you are in the market for a feature-rich LED pendant, you ned to take a look Read More

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PAR 38 spotlights are hugely popular among the nano reef aquarium crowd, and they were probably some of the first LED fixtures people widely used. Now Orphek has decided to upsize the traditional PAR 38 spotlight with the creation of their Orphex PR72, a PAR56 spotlight. So basically  think of the PR72 as a super Read More

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The CherryAqua iNano is a really cool LED fixture with a refreshing design, that up until recently was only available within Asia, but now seems to enjoy international distribution. Reef Secrets in Australia received some units, and they were nice enough to shoot a little footage of the lights showing off its touch screen control Read More

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