Don’s High Tech reef tank, built by Blue World Aquarium, is an exercise in futurism resulting in a stunningly unique marine aquarium ‘machine’. Blue World Aquariums first crossed our radar with their XBOX 360 master piece, and they’ve clearly not been sitting…
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LED Showdown Round 2 — The Sweet 16
The 2012 LED showdown is moving along and we have our first round of winners slimming the field down from 32 to 16 lights. The Sweet 16 round begins today and we’ll keep voting open over the weekend. We’ll close…
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…
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November 13th–November 19th Reef Builders Pick: Five additional amazing nano reefs Acan Lighting Prism, Vertex Illumina, and the Maxspect Razor get a comparative rundown Exotic Sealife International brings in a mother lode of hot corals Hands on review of…
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July 3rd– July 9th Adee’s Sunlit Reef is Looking Even Better With LEDs Panorama Marine and Actinic LED strips make short work of adding LEDs to longer tanks Breaking news: NOAA officially announces mermaids are not real! AquaDigitalLife is a…
Futura LED from Giesemann is a supersized radio controlled Teszla LED
The Futura by Giesemann takes the same basic design of the LED boards found in the Teszla LED and links them up internally via bluetooth. The large flat pane of LEDs that make up the Giesemann Futura are activel cooled…
Prometheus LED from ReefTech talks a big game
The Prometheus LED from ReefTech is a new lighting fixture which is a fresh departure from the rebadged LED lights which have been flooding the aquarium market. With some clear design and engineering inspiration from PacificSun LED Phobos/Deimos series, the…
Built in Displays are a Total Luxury, and We Love Them
Built-in Displays in reef aquarium gear is one of those small design features that always grabs our attention when evaluating new tech. It obviously doesn’t make sense to include displays in everything but in cases where there is a lot of…
Black Friday aquarium deals aplenty, are you ready to shop?
For the last five years or so, we have listed out some of the great Black Friday shopping deals our sponsors have. This year we are excited to see more manufacturers relax the MAP pricing and allow their retail partners…
2nd generation Radion G2 coming soon with Cree XTE, lenses and $100 price drop
The Radion G2 will be Ecotech Marine’s refresh of the Radion XR30w to include TIR lenses, upgraded Cree XTE LEDs and a sizable price drop. Just a year after its introduction the venerable Radion LED light is already hitting the…
