Oliver Knott displays extreme aquascaping creativity in the Anubias booth and all over InterZoo

Any saltwater aquarists who’s been keeping fish or corals for some time knows that the freshwater aquarists have us trumped when it comes to making beautiful displays of aquarium nature. Most of this exposure to freshwater planted aquariums will be…

AI PowerPuck for the AI Vega offers near limitless customization of LED colors

The AI PowerPuck is a new program for future AI Vega owners which will allow you to custom select the LED colors of an AI Vega fixture after you buy it. Using the Color Configuration tool on the AquaIllumination website,…

Orphek Nilus multicolor LED light tested and reviewed over a mature Dutch reef tank

After about 20 years of reefkeeping, I can look back on many experiments with reef aquarium equipment but I left my fingers off one thing: the use of metal halides supplemented by blue fluorescent tubes. After seeing my reef tank…

More Lytro pictures of the Estherea Hotel reef aquarium by Jan Willem Esselaar

http://pictures.lytro.com/ReefBuilders/pictures/188433 There’s something about Lytro’s light field camera which is especially well suited to telling the story of an aquarium. Being able to focus in on different layers of the reef aquarium aquascape transports the viewer to the scene, and…

AquaLighter 3 Marine LED lights and AquaLighter Device controller

We were impressed with the AquaLighter LED striplights and nano LED fixtures we saw at InterZoo 2012 and the Ukrainian company recently sent us a few more tidbits of information on the AquaLighter 3 Marine LED strip along with the company’s…

AquaEl built a fabulous soccer (football) aquarium

AquaEl’s football aquarium stadium (soccer in the US) is almost perfect. The football aquarium has real hairgrass (Eleocharis sp.) grown into a field with neat white plastic grid delineating the boundaries of the playable area. Broad LED lights are mounted…

Bali Aquarich – Contender for first captive-bred Annularis angelfish

A recent spate of captive breeding successes, particularly with the Koran angelfish Pomacanthus semicirculatus, had us wondering what the next captive bred “Big Angel” would be.  Based on what we’re seeing from Bali Aquarich (producers of the first captive-bred Pinnatus Batfish), it…

ATI LED-Powermodul T5 + LED reef light with higher intensity blue Philips diodes, thunderstorms too

The ATI LED Powermodul reef aquarium light is one of the first packages to combine the best of high performance T5 lights with some of the newest generation of high output LEDs. ATI already has made a name for itself…

Super Mario Aquarium is about as awesome and geeky as fish tanks can get

The Super Mario aquarium is what you get when you mix aquarium creativity with a love of video games and the world’s best toy building blocks, LEGOs! This faithful recreation of Super Mario Bros. 1 in a 55 gallon aquarium…

Lytro pictures of the Estherea Hotel reef aquarium by Jan Willem Esselaar

By now you should be keenly aware of our little infatuation with Lytro’s light field camera photography when coupled with beautiful coral reef aquarium scenery. With this point in mind, the amazing aquarium of Jan Willem Esselaar in teh Estherea…