Metis LED from Pacific Sun is packing a serious LED package

The Metis LED is PacificSun’s newest solution for high performance LED reef aquarium lighting. Since PacificSun has been designing and manufacturing original LED lights for the aquarium hobby just about longer than anyone, their Metis is probably the first 4th…

Illumilux LED from Vertex gets real name, pricing and availability

The Illumilux LED striplight from Vertex was first spotted in Germany as the Lumilux way back in May. In the intervening period the Illumilux has gotten a new name, four color combinations and a whole lot more refinement. The Lumilux…

Why I am glad to be unsubscribing from the Reef Angel mailing list

I have been a huge advocate of open source projects since the mid 90s with my first use of Knoppix Linux and then Hoary Hedgehog release of Ubuntu. I signed on to the mailing list for the Reef Angel controller…

Meanwell ELN-60-48D dimmable LED driver now available from NanoCustoms (sort of)

NanoTuners may have just started carrying the Meanwell ELN 60-48D dimmable LED driver but their initial order must have been meager because they are already sold out. The meanwell ELN 60 can power up to 13 high power white or…

Reef Light T LED aquarium fixture from Reef Republic

Reef Republic a company based out of Poland has their new reefLIGHT T series ready for the public. The reefLIGHT T series is a new LED aquarium fixture  available in three sizes: reefLight 50, 100 and 150. The lights don’t…

New Seashine LIFI plasma light rolling out soon, Game Changer gets initial pricing

The upcoming Seashine LIFI plama lighting fixture by Stray Light Optical Technology is definitely one of most promising new technologies heading into the trade. We had the pleasure of finding out more about this light including pricing and availability from…

2009 Reef Builders Reader’s Choice Awards roundup!

2009 was a great year for aquarium products and now that we’re starting to feel cozy with 2010 we may as well share with you the results of the 2009 Reef Builders Reader’s Choice Awards. There were some likely winners…

Planctonite releases new Sweeper 2.0 version

Planctonite has updated their popular sweeper product to a new version, 2.0. This new version is an upgrade to the sweeper and adds additional functionality. “In this new version of Sweeper the cleaning head is magnetically driven, facilitating the cleaning/rinsing…

WXM-Neptune Systems already developing a wireless interface for VorTech pumps, to land first quarter of 2010

Neptune Systems has announced that they are well underway in using the newly released development kit for third party aquarium controllers to get jiggy with wireless VorTech pumps. Curt Pansegrau, president of Neptune Systems had this to say: The feature…

Planctonite introduces sweeper for protein skimmers

Planctonite, a small company from Spain has introduced a “sweeper” similar to a skim clean which will clean the inside of your protein skimmer. Planctonite says  that it could be connected to a timer such as a ProFilux or other…