So who made it down to the final four in the last vote off in the Reef Builders Reader’s Choice aquarium LED lighting showdown? Our latest round of votes was tabulated and we have the Maxspect Mazzara and Kessil A150W…
Elite Eight narrowed down in 2011 Aquarium LED lighting showdown
The votes continue to roll in here for our 2011 Reader’s Choice LED showdown. The first two rounds are complete and we have it narrowed down to the Elite Eight in this fun way for our readers to chose the…
2011 Aquarium LED lighting showdown — Round 2 of the Reader’s Choice ready for votes!
Put round one in the books and get your voting fingers ready for the second round of the 2011 Aquarium LED showdown. As we mentioned before, we picked our 32 top stories on new aquarium LED lighting that appeared in…
Buffalo LFS robbed — thieves grab cash, dry goods and corals
A Reef Creation, a local fish store in Buffalo, NY, was robbed earlier this week with the thieves getting away with a reported $20,000 in cash, dry goods and live corals. The two burglars, described as white males in their…
2011 Aquarium LED lighting showdown — we’ll let you decide
Looking back at our posts in 2011 we can definitely see the effect of LED lighting in the aquarium market, proving to be one of the hottest topics we covered this past year. With so many new products hitting…
Kessil A150W LED pendant color combinations gets video rundown
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EyabHl1dPA[/youtube] We did a color comparison of the Kessil A150W LED pendant against the Mame RGB light earlier this year and now Marine Depot put together this amusing and informative video showing how the different Kessil LED lights look over…
Innovative Marine launches SkyyeLight Utility LED for nano aquariums and refugiums
If you are looking for a small, utility LED light take a gander at the SkyyeLight Utility LED by Innovative Marine. It appears these are a new iteration of the previous Skyye Light LEDs we covered. The new SkyyeLight LED has six 1W…
TMC MicroHabitat 30 hits the nano aquarium market
Following up on the success of the smaller versions, TMC is getting the new AquaHabitats MicroHabitat 30 out to market just in time for the holidays. We picked up the news from Acuaristica showing the new 30 liter (around 7.93…
Idaho couple convicted in Federal coral sting
We’ve seen our share of illegal smuggling convictions and while this case may not seem as severe it goes to show if you play by the rules you won’t get in trouble. According to this article in the Idaho Statesman,…
Downdraft protein skimmer prototype uses modular neck modules
Cone skimmers, meshwheels and bubble plates are what we tend to compare in most skimmers nowadays but we often forget just how well some previous technologies worked. This strange looking prototype protein skimmer looks to be a downdraft or Beckett design that…