The new Giesemann Matrixx-II Dimtec T5 may be the most advanced T5 aquarium light ever released. Although LEDs have taking firm hold in the aquarium lighting market, there are still hobbyists that prefer T5 and HQI lighting or cannot afford…
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Giesemann helps you take the guesswork out of setting up an LED profile
Giesemann is helping to take the head scratching out of setting up and LED profile on its advanced LED fixtures. Let’s face it, setting up an LED system for your corals can be pretty daunting. All these cutting-edge features, controllable…
Celestial LED spotlight by MaxSpect should be landing this month
The MaxSpect Celestial LED spotlight first unveiled at MACNA last year did a great job at turning some heads, and the time is almost here for the lights to get put to use. Later this month the 30 watt Celestial…
Vertex V6 pump review – silence and efficiency, at a price
The Vertex V6 pump is the first water mover from Vertex Aquaristik made in-house with the same custom volute as employed in the popular Omega 150 protein skimmer. Whereas the Omega 150 uses a Sicce pump with a custom volute,…
Sicce Voyager Nano pushes water quietly and discretely
Sicce is no newcomer when it comes to making fine water pumps for our aquariums and we expected nothing less of their Sicce Voyager Nano. We first spotted the Voyager Nano in Sicce’s Aquarama booth in Singapore about a year…
Nuvo Fusion brings Shallow Reef styling to smaller Innovative Marine aquariums
Innovative Marine’s Nuvo Shallow Reef series turned a lot of heads with an out-of-the box set of features which brought the modern marine aquarium into the twenty-teens. Now, the Nuvo Fusion brings the same attention to aquaristik detail to the…
Top 4 Global Pet Expo product releases to look out for
Now that Global Pet Expo is behind us and the dust is starting to settle, we all huddled in the Reef Builders War Room and picked our Top 4 Global Pet Expo product releases to look out for. There was…
Eshopps LED lights toying with a couple different funky designs
Eshopps LED are coming and the company’s first few fixtures will be a little out of the norm. While you might expect Eshopps to comission some LED fixtures that they might somehow be encase in its signature white or blue…
Coral Morphologic has a unique twist to the idea of a ‘public’ aquarium in Miami
Coral Morphologic has a unique and inexpensive approach to a public aquariums in Miami — creating a more welcoming area around the city’s South Pointe Park. By taking advantage of the abundant marine life right under Miami’s nose, the city can…
Tomiyamichthys nudus is a beautiful shrimp goby that bears resemblance to a small Flabelligobius
Tomiyamichthys nudus is relatively new species described only in 2012, and published in Allen and Erdmann’s new book on reef fishes of the East Indies. Previously, it has only been known as Tomiyamichthys sp, or sometimes incorrectly as Flabelligobius sp,…