Aquarium Design Group’s new retail store shows off True Lumen Pro LEDs, and vice versa

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJCgY1vulb0[/youtube] We know that this video was produced by Aquarium Design Group to show off the new True Lumen Pro LED strips from Current USA but in other ways, the True Lumen Pro LEDs are doing just as…

Some Livestock “Guarantees” Can Send the Wrong Message

A recently announced new form of livestock guarantee, a “Livestock Insurance Program” from a local fish store caught my attention as a unique and different approach to the common practice of most livestock warranties.  In this scheme, a customer pays…

Hands on with the Reef Angel controller

We’ve been excited about the open source concept of the Reef Angel controller from the get go and now we finally got our hands on a Reef Angel controller. Needless to say, we weren’t disappointed. The controller certainly has come…

Eductor powered biopellet reactor now available in the US

In the latest of a long string of products we’ve spotted first overseas and now available in North America, the Eductor-powered biopellet reactor will soon be within reach for American reef builders. The eductor-in-a-reactor design was first spied at the…

New Mag Float Scrape is available now (updated)

The Mag Float Scrape is a larger, heavier duty floating magnet with a scraping front end like the Mag-Flip. We saw the first version of the Mag Float Scrape at Interzoo in Germany over a year ago when it was…

Tek Wave VHO T5 fixture from Sunlight Supply is finally here

The VHO T5 lamp fixture called the Tek Wave from Sunlight Supply is what has now trickled down to the market from the first incarnation of the intentionally VHO T5 fixture we first saw as the Tek Light Ultra Elite.…

Breathtaking Raccoon butterflyfish hybrid is discovered

Hybrid butterflyfishes sightings seem to very frequent these days. Not too long ago, we published some photographs featuring stunning hybrids of C. xanthurus and C. auriga, which were both some of the most unique and unusual crosses we’ve seen to…

Maxspect Mazarra LED branches out into the S and P series

The highly anticipated third generation LED light from Maxspect, the Mazarra LED, will be available in two separate types of fixtures, the Mazarra S Series and the Mazarra P Series. We first got a look at the Maxspect Mazarra at…

Giesemann debuts Megachrome Crystal metal halide bulbs

The new Giesemann MEGACHROME crystal metal halide bulbs should be a good sign for metal halide lighting fans that the technology isn’t quite going away and there is still innovation in bulb design. This double-ended bulb is geared towards the…

Magenta and Royal Blue Stunner LED colors look surprisingly awesome

When we first saw that Ecoxotic was coming out with some new colors for the popular Stunner LED strips, we were very stoked about the magenta pink, but didn’t pay too much attention to the new shade of royal blue.…