The Maxspect LED lighting system that we showed you earlier this month was said to be from Japan, only its not. It’s from China. Can China produce such seemingly high quality goods? It appears that they can. MaxSpect knows the…
Hands On with the NeWave water pump from Aquarium systems
With Aquarium Systems “new” NeWave pump about to hit the American market, the pump has already pushed water for the rest of the world. Available in Europe and the UK, we got a non-American model in here to RB HQ.…
Sybon Sea Salt says it mixes crystal clear
Sybon salt is a new “advanced engineered synthetic sea salt” on the market. Called Sybon Premium, it says it “contains perfect balance of all major, minor and 70 trace elements found in natural seawater, enriched with a wide spectrum of…
NAC7 a cone skimmer from Bubble Magus
Bubble Magus has been known to make low cost, or in other words down right cheap aquarium products and this holds true with their newest cone shaped skimmer. The NAC7. This small cone skimmer is rated for aquariums from 500…
Marine Depot’s Forum Giveaway
Marine Depot has a new giveaway (disclosure: they sponsor RB) that is celebrating their newly designed forum. The contest is actually pretty simple, post a comment in their thread and then you’ll be entered into their contest. You can win…
Yellow Assessor Basslets (Assessor flavissimus) available again from ORA
Yellow Assessors Basslets (Assessor flavissimus) have been bred in captivity by ORA before but they’ve recently gotten productive enough to start shipping these to stores. Up until very recently Yellow assessor Basslets were only availabel as wild caught when they…
Caribsea’s Purple Up issued Patent, purple isn’t safe any longer
You’ve most likely heard of Purple Up, the product that some aquarists use when they can’t seem to get any coraline algae growing in their saltwater aquariums. Besides being a very popular product, Caribsea, the manufactuer has been touting that…
Aquarium Obsessed out of Business? Sfiligoi gets new US distribution
Aquarium Obsessed was a distributor for a lot of well known products. They were until they went out of business, or at least it appears that way. Aquarium Obsessed website is still up, but emails aren’t being responded to and…
DSPS 1200 gallon tank from thailand
What happens when you build an aquarium with these dimensions: 120″ x 48″ x 48″? You get over 1200 gallons (or 1196.88 gallons to be exact) of water to play with. Besides being one of the cleanest setups we’ve ever…
PAR38 LED spotlight from Nano Customs in new RED or Royal Blue flavors
Nano Customs added red and royal blue color flavors to their new PAR38 LED lighting lamp. The NanoCustoms LED spot draws about 15 watts with about 12-13 watts of that energy going straight to pure LED lighting goodness. Until today,…