Cree just brought another record-setting LED to market with its freshly announced XLamp® XM LED. The single-chip LED module cranked out 160 lumens per watt of power, setting new efficacy (the ratio of luminous flux measured in lumens to power)…
Reef Aquarium Rock Wall Aquascapes can be interesting
Reef Aquarium ‘Rock walls’ have gotten a bad rap over the past , as Adam Blundell recently pointed out. This reputation is not necessarily undeserved as there are plenty of rock walls that are unappealing, flow stopping, detritus collecting piles…
Meet Joe, voice of dope-dealing coral in classic CoralRx vid
You don’t have to go to Hollywood to meet a star in Southern California. Just this weekend we were able to meet Joe Meek, the voice of “Joseph” and the dope-peddling “Purple Hornet” zoanthids in the classic and hilarious CoralRX…
ReefBrite “modular” prototype bracket seen, customize to your own color taste
ReefBrite is always coming out with something fun and besides just being a pleasure to be around, Joy Meadows and the team there gave the world a sneak peek at a prototype module bracket that lets you choose your own…
Neptune Systems gets an iPad app, shipping Aqua Illumination module this summer, VorTech controller shortly
Neptune Systems has been busy releasing a series of modules including the Aqua Illumination controller that is scheduled to begin shipping this summer as well as being one of the first aquarium-related iPad apps released for Apple’s new device. While…
Reef Results: The most respected name in Aquatic Care (that no one has ever heard of)
Listen here, Reef Results: just because you handed out a couple bottles of RR to your friends and they all loved it (because they got it for free) doesn’t make you “the most respected name in aquatic care”. We took…
Ornamental marine fish culture getting shot in the fin with research funding
The ornamental marine fish culture, while very valuable to us aquarists, is typically viewed as unimportant to the world. The primary concern of the world is NOT putting fish in people’s aquariums, but instead, putting fish into people’s stomachs. When…
My Reef 2.0 from Digital Aquatics
It’s been a long wait for My Reef, the digital management system from Digital Aquatics controllers and it looks like it was well worth the wait. Digital Aquatics announced over the weekend that their My Reef 2.0 was in the…
Decorator Crab decorated with zoanthid polyps
A red decorator crab (Leptopsia setirostris) is being spied upon on this video. He is living upon, and decorated with, “zoanthid polyps (Zoanthus sociatus), close cousins to both sea anemones and corals. Zoanthus in Latin literally means ‘animal flower’. The…
Sneak peek at AquaticLife DE 150 MH pendant
AquaticLife has a new 150w double ended metal halide pendant they are showcasing here that will be available at the end of June. Available in 10,000K, 14,000K and 20,000K flavors, the pendant is passively cooled with electronic remote ballast and…
