House of Fins 53rd Anniversary SPLASH event this weekend

House of Fins in Greenwich CT is one of the oldest aquarium stores in the country and this weekend will mark the establishment’s 53rd year in the business of ornamental aquarium fish. House of Fins, or HOF, has been ramping…

Galaxy T5 90 Hybrid LED light from Sfiligoi

The Galaxy T5 90 is an interesting hybrid aquarium light from Sfiligoi which mixes LED and T5 lighting. While most of the Galaxy and Sirius line is populated with GU10 bulbs of 5mm LEDs, the Galaxy T5 90 uses much…

Blau Lumina LED Plus T5 hybrid aquarium light

The Lumina LED Plus T5 hybrid aquarium light from Blau Aquaristic is the first LED product to join Blau’s diverse line of Lumina aquarium lights. The Lumina LED that Blau demoed at InterZoo looked like a prototype but it’s clearly…

PowerChrome Aquapink T5 lamp looking to give KZ’s Fiji Purple a run for its money

The Aquapink flavored powerchrome T5 lamp from Giesemann is the latest flavor in the venerable lamp maker’s rainbow of T5 tubes. Lately Giesemann seems to have been sitting on the sideline while competitors like Korallen-Zucht and ATI power it out…

ATI vs Aqua Science T5 lighting bulbs

Back in 2007, a study was done that compared ATI bulbs to Aquascience bulbs. The study was done by Manuela Kruppas and Robert Baur-Kruppas and they wanted to see which bulbs performed better. Both of these bulbs were from German…

AquaPhoton photon plus metal halide + T5 lighting units

We’ve been following these lamps now for a while and finally we are starting to see them ship outside of their home country: Germany. Not as well known as Giesemann lamps,the AquaPhoton plus metal halide lamps come in three flavors…

Week In review of June 2007 for saltwater aquarium news and articles

Coral Reef Fish Starve Themselves to Maintain Social Order Indian Ocean sailfin tang, Zebrasoma desjardinii Buying an Aquarium a how to guide 24″ 2×24W Tek 2 T5 High-Output Retrofit Kit w/ Bulbs Released Giesemann 54W T5 Professional Retrofit Kit What!…