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Reef Brite XHO LED strips coming soon

Reef Brite has been busy adding more “oomph” to its arsenal of LED strip lights with the company’s upcoming Reef Brite XHO LED striplights. The XHO LED strips come in the black anodized finish and feature more 3W LEDs packed…

Seachem brings Reef Phytoplankton, Zooplankton to market

Seachem added a couple of products to its “Reef” line with Seachem Reef Phyto Plankton and Reef Zoo plankton. These bottled and concentrated food products require no refrigeration and are available in 250 or 500ml bottles.  The Reef Zooplankton has all the…

SunBrite Slimline S series coming soon dressed in silver or black

SunBrite LED is debuting its larger SunBrite Slimline S series LED fixture here are Reef Stock. Like the smaller version of the Slimline fixture the “S” version features Cree XP-G LEDs but is beefier with 18 3W LEDs mixed in…

Coming at you from Reef Stock

Spring is in the air so it must mean Reef Stock is underway at the Downtown Aquarium in Denver. The doors opened at 10 a.m. MT and there are plenty of manufacturers, coral slingers and vendors with lots of fun and…

Tsunami reaches across Pacific, damage toll still climbing

The devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake hitting Japan yesterday threw a powerful tsunami across the Pacific Ocean that has reached the U.S. mainland, leaving a trail of devastation in its path. It may be days and weeks before the overall damage…

Vertex Illumilux LED gets unboxed

  The Vertex Illumilux LED lightstrip we first spied at InterZoo is in our hand and we couldn’t help but pop it out of the box and take a closer look at the light to see how it has progressed…

First look at the AquaMedic Yasha reef tank

We saw it at Interzoo, wrote about it coming to North America a few months back and now the AquaMedic Yasha nano reef aquarium is getting closer to being available to the public. We had the chance to get our…

Robotic fish almost as good as the real thing

Robotic fish are nothing new. Researchers have studied and developed different robotic fish that mimic the real thing and provide valuable data to scientists. Often it is manking reaping the benefits of these robotic fish as they glean data and…

Reef Octopus Water Blaster HY-16000 Pump moves some serious water

The new Reef Octopus Water Blaster HY-16000 pump is the latest design in the series that started with the Bubble Blaster skimmer pumps but designed for moving water for circulation in the aquarium. The Water Blaster HY-16000 is the largest…

Costa Rica creates massive “shark park”

Costa Rica recently put together a massive new marine park that increases the area of protected waters surrounding Cocos Island five times what it was before. The Cocos Island area is home to some of the highest abundances of sharks…