It’s Back! 2012 LED Showdown — You Decide

The Reef Builders LED showdown is back! Last year we had a lot of fun letting you choose who you thought was the “top dog” in the LED showdown and wanted to let you all have the chance to weigh…

Bridgelux Vero multchip LED array announced

The Bridgelux Vero multichip LED array is a new platform of solid state lighting which may help boost the amount of power we can pack into our solid state lights. Like every press release about LEDs these days, the Bridgelux…

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October 30th–November 5th Reef Builders pick: five of our favorite concept marine aquariums 2nd generation Radion G2 coming soon with Cree XTE, lenses and $100 price drop Ocean Blue Aquarium’s 90 gallon reef is a display worthy of a high…

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July 24th–July 30th Kessil A350 review, just about the best stand alone LED spotlight for aquarium corals Micro-Reefs bringing pico, temperate systems to an office cubicle near you We need more digital ‘self-reporting’ like Walt Smith Fiji’s videos of hand…

SolarStinger Nano Flex and Cluster LED from EconLux packages multicolor multichip LEDs

SolarStinger is a new line of LED aquarium lights from EconLux which is one of the few ways to taste the sweet, sweet magic of multicolor, multichip LED light. After the Kessil Dense Matrix Array LED, Econlux’s rainbow cluster LED…

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April 17– April 23rd Fish Tank Kings releases first preview clips of the new TV show Archives: Modern Aquarium design for reef aquaria and freshwater Scleropages inscriptus is a new species of Arowana! Carbon fiber LED light is high technology…

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March 27– April 2nd Can you believe someone in the US is hand making wooden airstones? Mr. Kang’s Korean reef aquarium is a field of exquisite corals on an elegant aquascape Remarkable collection of rare fish on Diver’s Den proves…

Part one of ReefStock 2012 video coverage by Mr. Saltwater Tank

[vimeo width=”680″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/39362654[/vimeo] If you didn’t make it to Denver Colorado for ReefStock this year and you missed our liveblog of the many new products unveiled there, fret not because Mr. Saltwater Tank was in the house. In this first part…

ReefStock raffle alone is worthy of the trip to Denver this weekend!

We like to do it right when it comes to our own event — great vendors, cool location, smart speakers and a raffle worthy of a visit to Denver for ReefStock on its own! This year we have another great…

Orphek DIF100XP and DIF50XP are two new multicolored, multichip LED pendants

The DIF50XP and DIF100XP LED are two new pendants with Orphek which join a growing trend of incorporating more colors of LED in reef aquarium lights. Whereas the Ecotech Marine Radion XR30w and PacificSun LED Hyperion use a handful of discrete LEDs…