Reef Octopus Water JET a novel way to produce subsurface laminar water flow

Reef Octopus appears to be in development of a novel and mysterious water moving device. The Reef Octopus Water JET was spied at LSS Laboratory and it appears to move a blade of water through a long, narrow vent. As…

Happy People Eater is the neatest new Zoanthid we’ve seen in a while

The Happy People Eater zoanthid from Happy Corals Inc. is a new and lovely strain of People Eater zoanthids which deserves a little air time. People-eater zoanthids of the Protopalythoa genus have always been among the most populars polyps in…

Kessil LED spotlight is lookin mighty fine over a 22 gallon nano reef

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UtLxYorUts[/youtube] Kessil LED is a new company to the aquarium world which will soon be offering their Kessil A150W LED spotlight in white, blueish and blue colors. While the A150w LED spotlight is not yet widely available, that…

Mr. Saltwater Tank covers ReefStock 2011

[vimeo width=”680″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/21157957[/vimeo] ReefStock 2011 was an amazing reef show which attracted a huge crowd from the local area and visitors from coast to coast. The speakers gave ground breaking talks and the coral vendors had more coral than you…

Aquatronica lets loose 8.7 update to aquarium controllers

Aquatronica has just announced the availability of 8.7 for their line of premium aquarium controllers. The new 8.7 update contains several bug fixes in the PC software realm of things. The new update also includes numerous bug fixes for the…

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…