Nano Customs is here at Reef stock with something new that we haven’t seen before. A complete Pico LED unit that has the fit and finish of an advanced LED unit such as Elos or other top premium brands. We managed to take pictures of their prototype unit that is being finalized with 12 LEDs. [...]
Nano Customs might be releasing a new T5/LED light for nano aquariums or at least playing with the idea. This prototype light fixture is milled out of billet 6061 with a integrated passive heatsink & active cooling system for the T5s. The actual T5s are 20 watts each (you’ll get two of them) plus 10 [...]
If a picture is worth a thousand words then the animation above is a 5000 word thesis on the color and spread of a variety of LED spotlights from NanoCustoms and Volx Japan. Over the weekend Taka and I got together and we pitted the Nano Customs PAR 38 spotlights against 3 different Grassy LeDio [...]
ESV B-Ionic Seawater System is an exciting new liquid salt formula that we reported on a couple of months ago. After a thorough round of testing, new mixing isntructions and some fancy new labeling, the B-Ionic Seawater is ready for the mainstream with a 50 gallon mix running ~ $30 and 200 gllon mix running [...]
The PAR 38 lamp is rapidly becoming a gateway product for many newcomers to LED aquarium lighting. We’ve been fortunate to have a few of these lamps to try out for several weeks now and after this period we’ve seen solid color and growth of our corals. This past Monday Nano-Customs announced that the PAR [...]
LED spotlighting is an exciting new offshoot of the even lighting spread of LED and other conventional lighting. The image of this little nano cube reef shows the extremely dramatic effect of LED spotlighting. This ADA mini S cube garden is lit up with a ’20K’ Par 38 lamp from Nano Customs and the dramatic [...]
Nano Customs has announced that their new PAR38 LED bulbs have received a bump in the specs department. In their own words: Our manufacturer dropped a nice little surprise on use with our last batch of PAR38 lamps: MORE POWER!! They have gone from about 15W to about 21W of power draw. What this means [...]
The PAR38 E26 LED spotlight from Nano Customs may not sound like a very exciting piece of equipment, but this combination of high power blue and white LEDs in a incandescent base spotlight was one of the more original products at this year’s MACNA. The NanoCustoms LED spot draws about 15 watts with about 12-13 [...]
The rigid meshwheel above is a new development in the mesh wheel arms race: hot on the heels of the alloy meshwheels and hastelloy impellers, the new solid meshwheel from Nano Customs makes sapphire skimmers rock like nothing else (except the metal meshwheel). The rigid material is much more solid than it appears and we [...]
