Orphek has a couple new lights to show off, and one of them is a big honkin’ reef light. The Orphek Amazonas is a 500 watt LED spotlight which could easily be mistaken for just another commercial LED light. However,…
Aquarium Shows
Profilux 4 – GHL Updates its Flagship Aquarium Controller
The Profilux 4 is an exciting new update to GHL’s flagship aquarium controller. Earlier this year GHL announced three new models of the barebones Profilux Mini, Light and Terra, but it seems that GHL was also working to give us…
Kessil A2000 LED is One Powerful Commercial Aquarium Light
The Kessil A2000 is the largest, most powerful LED light the company has ever made. Kessil has been showing off this light in limited form throughout the year but at MACNA 2016 we finally got to see this light working…
Smarter Reefs new Frozen Fish food feeding System
The Smarter Reefs frozen fish food system is like a huge popsicle stick for your reef tank livestock – the apparatus and design allows you to feed your fish for as long as the frozen mixture thaws from normal environmental…
Reef Kinetics Reefbits New Automatic Water Testing Device
Reefbits is a new automatic water testing device which promises to automate much of the water testing for our aquariums. We’re generally way too optimistic about cutting edge technologies and promising new products but somehow the Reefbits really fell short of…
IceCap Magnetic Kalkwasser Stirrer Prototype Spotted at MACNA
The Icecap Magnetic Kalkwasser Stirrer is a type of kalkreactor which could make dosing kalkwasser cool again. Dosing a solution of calcium hydroxide is one of the oldest ‘methods’ in reef keeping so any device that can streamline that process…
Xaqua InOut Pulsing Drain & Return Now Available from Two Little Fishies
The Xaqua INOUT is an interesting aquarium gadget that really caught our eye more than six years ago, but which now is getting a renewed lease on life. Formerly called the X-InOut, the Xaqua INOUT is a combination drain and return…
Arcadia LED T5 Retrofit Coming to America From Kordon
The Arcadia LED T5 Retrofit Lamps are the newest contender for directly replacing T5 fluorescent tubes in a stock T5 fixture. While Euroquatics E5 lamps made their big push in America, Arcadia has been focused on the European market, but…
Somatic Sump & Protein Skimmer from the Makers of Vertex
Somatic is a new line of aquarium products that launched at MACNA 2016 in San Diego. What’s cool about the new Somatic line is that it is made by Vertex Aquaristic, and therefore inherits many of the build quality and…
ReefGrow Launches the First Basic Aquarium Magnetic Stirrer
Magnetic Stirrers have not yet become widespread in the aquarium hobby but that’s about to change with a new device from ReefGrow. The new magnetic stirrers from ReefGrow are the first basic stirrers that turn on and off, and don’t need…