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Quality Marine demoes the new Aquabeam 1000 HD LED Tile and controller

The Aquaray 1000 HD LED Tile is on display at the Quality Marine booth at IMAC West this weekend. This new little LED light shares some design and construction elements in common…

Ushio shows off new eximer xenon light saber at IMAC West

Eximer Xenon Fluorescent lighting is not a common name around aquarium circles yet the technology has been around for years in copiers and flatscreen television backlights. The lamp may look very similar to a fluorescent lamp but the mercury is…

Win an autographed issue of Reef Life Magazine, signed by the Fish Monger

As part of our contribution to the expansive raffle table at IMAC West here in Long Beach CA, we are giving away Kevin Kohen’s personal copy of the second issue of Reef Life. The cover features one of Kevin’s fantastic…

AquaDriver wash down system is custom and very nice

We received higher quality shots of the automated skim clean system with wash down. This system like we stated earlier is very similar to large commercial skimmers that have a wash down system. The photos show a custom made wash…

Reef Builders is loungin’ at IMAC West

We’ve been here at IMAC west in Long Beach since before the booths were set up but now that the Reef Builders lounge and other booths are showing, we have to say that the Queen Mary as a venue for…

ATB injection molded plastic cone skimmer to be the smallest?

That small cone skimmer we spied last week appears to be a new skimmer from Aquarium Technik Burian that will be one of the smallest skimmers from ATB. The new skimmer from ATB uses injection molded plastic to form the…

24% of reef aquarists don’t use RO water

With the recent publishing of our market research report we have found some interesting tidbits. One that caught our eye is the fact that 24% of reef aquarists do not use reverse osmosis water. Let me say that again. 24%…

Wash down Skim Clean from Aqua Driver spied?

Most of us would fit in the category of having to clean out our protein skimmers on a daily/weekly schedule. It’s something we have gotten used to. True, we might have a outlet for the skim to drain into another…

biOrb Algae Cleaner is cool and unique

Here is a very interesting type of algae scraper for your aquarium which is said to give you “better cleaning results” with a unique blade design that “removes algae in sheets rather than in a cloud allowing easier removal and…

Mysterious 400 watt mogul base Ocean Light pendant from Aqua Medic

While perusing the store rooms of LiveAquaria in Wisconsin this past weekend, we spied this unusual 400 watt mogul fixture from Aqua Medic which we had never seen before. This fixture is unusual in being a 400 watt light and…