vortech-pump-controllers-1 A trip down memory lane of Ecotech Marine VorTech pump controllers As Ecotech Marine celebrates ten years of business in the reef aquarium scene, I am reminded of how I came to know the once scrappy three young founders Tim, Pat, Justin and first employee Mark. The company cut its teeth on reef tank product engineering with a magnetically stirred kalk stirrer with a built in
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LeDio RS073 ReefUV, the LED spotlight with a smorgasbord of color

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If we had to pick a suite of LED colors to pack into a single spotlight, it would look a lot like the new LeDio RS073 ReefUV. We know some of you may think that the multicolor LED trend can get out of hand sometimes, and it does, but if a broad spectrum of color Read More

Grassy Solare LED fixture released by Volx Japan in Reef and Plant models

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The Grassy Solare LED fixtures first announced by Volx Japan earlier this summer are now officially available with a baseline of features departing from the norm. Volx Japan is best known for making the first crop of higher performing LeDio marine aquarium LED spotlights, more recently their blued out LeDio Reef Deep and also a Read More

Volx Japan releasing Grassy Solare LED fixture

Japan’s Volx is releasing its first line of aquarium LED fixtures with the Grassy Solare Reef and Grassy Solare Plant LED fixtures soon. We primarily saw Volx Japan releasing the LeDio PAR 38 spotlight with interesting color and spread options in the past that has now evolved to the reef and plant Grassy Solare panels.  Read More

LeDio ReefDeep new uber blue LED spotlight from Volx Japan

The LeDio ReefDeep is a new 27 watt LED spotlight from Volx Japan which delivers a punch of unadulterated blue spectrum in a single spotlight. Like the other 27 watt Ledio spotlights, the new ReefDeep uses all Cree XP series LEDs with this model being the first to use both blue and royal blue LEDs Read More

Grassy Glow 25,000 K metal halide bulb from Volx Japan hits the mark for blue light addicts

The Grassy Glow Super Blue 25,000 K metal halide bulb from Volx Japan with the potential to take blue reef lighting up to eleven. Although we consider ourselves evangelists of LED reef aquarium lighting, we promise we haven’t given up on metal halides and the Grassy Glow 25K is just the latest product to help Read More

LeDio Mystery Purple and NanoCustoms PAR 38 LED spotlights tango in these videos of azoox corals

The Ledio Mystery Purple LED spotlight from Volx Japan is one which we compared to many LED spotlights including the PAR 38 lamp from NanoCustoms which will be familiar to new and old Reef Builders readers alike. The Mystery purple lamp we played with was the 7 watt version with 7 individual LED spread out Read More

Volx Japan’s LeDio spotlights join the LED spectacle at ReefStock

If you haven’t yet heard, Denver’s ReefStock event will be featuring the greatest diversity of marine and reef aquarium LED lights ever assembled. In addition to Ecoxotic, ReefBrite, NanoCustoms, AquaIlluminations and CoralSky, the Nautilus Ballroom at the Denver Downtown Aquarium will also be displaying the latest LED products from Tropical Marine Centre, Marineland and now Read More

Comparing the NanoCustoms and LeDio LED Spotlights over a real nano reef

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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 Read More