[youtube width=”680″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JpPyr1TSAs[/youtube] The adoption of LED technology for marine and reef aquarium applications is still on an uptick, yet OLED technology continues to develop. OLED panels continue to get brighter such as with the Philips Lumiblade and they can…
Top 4 waterproof and rugged cameras compared, no more excuses for lack of underwater shots
There’s a lot of underwater and rugged cameras being offered for sale these days, and many of them are gaining popularity for underwater and aquarium photography. If you’re tired of sharing blurry and blued-out phone-pics of your aquarium or you…
Actinic PowerLED and blue-white-blue version coming soon from Eheim
The Actinic PowerLED that was first spotted at MACNA last fall has finally gotten the green light from Eheim. The PowerLED will be made in an all blue Actinic flavor with an emission peak around 450nm, so pretty close to…
Oceanlife food line includes Amin Extra Powder, Coral Food Powder and Skim Stop Omega 3
Oceanlife, better known for their nifty overflow/return kit has a new Food Line with some incremental changes to how they suggest feeding our corals. Amin Extra Powder is like an amino acid additive but in a more concentrated powder form…
Nahackyi angelfish video is the first of this isolated endemic reef fish from Johnston Atoll
The Nahacky angelfish, Centropyge nahackyi, is a super rare little Centropyge that is almost as isolated in its distribution as the resplendent angelfish. Coming only from Johnston Atoll, where permits are required just to visit, the Nahacky angelfish is super well…
This is what the MaxSpect Razor looks like in real life
If you thought the MaxSpect Razor LED looked good in the pre-InterZoo renderings, just wait till you get a good look at pictures of the real thing. The aptly-named Razor is incredibly thin, not thin like the AquaPad, but thin-with-heatfins…
Sealife Systems SeaStorm are ancient skimmers from the future
The nostalgic SeaStorm protein skimmers from Sealife Systems are an interesting design which harkens back to simpler days of protein skimmers. SeaStorms don’t need no cones, not even a single taper to the neck, and what the heck is a…
AquaLEDs.de’s AquaPad are impossibly thin, much cooler and brighter than you’d think
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/42987799[/vimeo] When we first saw the AquaPad LEDs from AquaLEDs.de we were convinced that these anorexic LED fixtures with no real heat shedding qualities would be pretty dim, run very hot or both. Thankfully, we got to see a large…
DeJong Marinelife scores a beautiful crop of Tuamotu Maxima Clams
Giant clams are the jewels of the reef and of reef aquariums but for all their glory, we spend way too little time talking about Tridacna clams. It’s been a while since we’ve touched on them, but at a recent…
SolarStinger Nano Flex and Cluster LED from EconLux packages multicolor multichip LEDs
SolarStinger is a new line of LED aquarium lights from EconLux which is one of the few ways to taste the sweet, sweet magic of multicolor, multichip LED light. After the Kessil Dense Matrix Array LED, Econlux’s rainbow cluster LED…