Who says LEDs can’t grow SPS corals?

LEDs are an amazing source of reef aquarium lighting and they are fully capable of growing beautiful, colorful stony corals. The two corals above, a bird-of-paradise Seriatopora hystrix and green Seriatopora guttatus, have been growing almost exclusively under LEDs from…

Reef Builders presents a virtual tour of InterZoo 2010 at this friday’s SoCal marine aquarium society meeting

Who: Jake Adams and the Southern California Marine Aquarium Society What: Virtual tour of InterZoo 2010, the largest global pet trade show that is held every two years in Germany When: Friday July 16th, 7:00 pm Where: International House of…

Apogee MU-200 Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation meter with pink faceplate

The MU-200 is a UV radiation meter from Apogee which follows in the design of the recently refreshed Apogee QM-200 PAR meter. Like the much sleeker body and modern-quality LCD display of the PAR meter, Apogee’s MU-200 includes a separate…

ReefStock 2010 pictures part 2: so many LEDs under one roof

With over 30 aquarium LED products showed off by more than 15 companies at this year’s ReefStock, were going to go ahead a call it: The future is now and LED lighting has truly arrived to the aquarium world. Spotlights,…

ReefStock 2010 pictures part 1: Setting up

With 60-70 participants and about 400 attendees the third ReefStock was the best show yet. The crowd came early and it stayed late for the ReefScape competition, the talks and the raffle. While we were doing all we could to…

Aquascaped wonder Cube aquarium lit by LEDs

Reef Stock is just lesss than 48 hours away while I’m writing this. And if this is any indication of what it is in store for the Aquascaping competition then whoa! The 20-ish gallon 18″ cube aquarium uses a very…

The Greatest Aquarium LED show on Earth, this saturday at ReefStock and on Reef Builders

Unless you’ve been living deep inside a piece of Totoka live rock, by now you should be aware that a huge LED lighting demonstration will be taking place at ReefStock this Saturday, March 13th at the Denver Downtown Aquarium. LED…

Getting an angle on the CoralsSky Versa SL actinic LED striplights

The Versa SL actinic LED striplight is the most significant product we’ve seen in the aquarium market since the Reefbrites and the Ecoxotic Stunners. Although the Stunners are more suited towards smaller applications and accent lighting, the Versa SL compares…

Volx Japan’s LeDio spotlights join the LED spectacle at ReefStock

If you haven’t yet heard, Denver’s ReefStock event will be featuring the greatest diversity of marine and reef aquarium LED lights ever assembled. In addition to Ecoxotic, ReefBrite, NanoCustoms, AquaIlluminations and CoralSky, the Nautilus Ballroom at the Denver Downtown Aquarium…

Panorama LED fixture rear mounting hardware installation video

The Panorama LED light fixture is an entirely new product from Ecoxotic that is designed to mount to your aquarium in a completely different way. If you have any confusion about what makes the Panorama LED fixture unique before you…