New LED fixture from Kessil offers an attractive spotlight design

Kessil, a company that focuses primarily on LED lighting in the horticulture industry, just joined the LED aquarium lighting side with their Kessil A150w fixture. The new LED fixture of Kessil, unlike the name suggests, only uses 36 watts and utilizes…

Radium metal halide bulbs possibly soon to be in short supply in the U.S.

New import regulations concerning the documentation of metal halide lamps means that there is possibly going to be a Radium bulb shortage.  A 2009 law is now beginning to be enforced, causing the FDA to disallow HID lamps through customs…

Tunze releases more information about Nanostream 6095

The Tunze Nanostream 6095 which was officially announced at Reef Stock and Tunze has more information about wattage use. The Tunze 6095 will be controllable, meaning you will be able to modify how much flow you would like to dish…

MACNA 2011 annouces 5 People’s Choice Speakers and the polls are open

The organizers of MACNA 2011 are changing things up again — apparently no one could agree on who should fill the five remaining speaker spots at this year’s MACNA, so instead a Facebook-based MACNA People’s Choice Speaker Poll has been…

Ecoxotic pumps up the jam with 100W LED Cannons

We got a sneak peak at MACNA but have come to find out the Ecoxotic 100W LED Cannons are starting to ship very soon. These photon monsters are actually dimmable with a custom 10×10 Edison Opto multichip LED in either…

Red Sea Complete Reef Care products begin shipping

Red Sea’s new Complete Reef Care line of products are out and beginning to ship now. Red Sea created this complete system of supplements, nutrient management and other products for coral growth and coloration. From test kits to additives, the…

Hydor Smartwave prototype spied in the wild

The Hydor Smartwave is one nice device and we happened to catch a prototype of this wavemaker on display at the Hydor booth at Reef Stock. Although the prototype we saw doesn’t have the white lettering the final production model…

Coming at you from Reef Stock

Spring is in the air so it must mean Reef Stock is underway at the Downtown Aquarium in Denver. The doors opened at 10 a.m. MT and there are plenty of manufacturers, coral slingers and vendors with lots of fun and…

Tsunami reaches across Pacific, damage toll still climbing

The devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake hitting Japan yesterday threw a powerful tsunami across the Pacific Ocean that has reached the U.S. mainland, leaving a trail of devastation in its path. It may be days and weeks before the overall damage…

First look at the AquaMedic Yasha reef tank

We saw it at Interzoo, wrote about it coming to North America a few months back and now the AquaMedic Yasha nano reef aquarium is getting closer to being available to the public. We had the chance to get our…