The Manhattan Reefs Fall Frag Swap will be taking place Sunday December 6th at PACE University in downtown Manhattan. The bi-annual MR Frag Swap is a huge deal in the New York area that draws the hobby-industry’s finest manufacturers and…
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AGA aquascaping contest delivers stunning freshwater views
The 2009 Aquatic Gardener’s Association International Aquascaping Competition is up online and has some inspirational eye candy from our freshwater brethren. Aquscaping seems to be one of the things we are constantly striving to master and at times, is probably…
Rainbow Cycloseris, Juvenile Leather Bass and Breeder Maxima clams featured in Eye Candy Overload video
While editing through half a terabyte of our video collection we stumbled across these three gems from the video archives: the Rainbow Cycloseris, a Juvenile Leather bass and some breeder Maxima clams. The Rainbow Cyclo is the same orange anf…
PAR 38 LED spotlight bears its guts in this uncensored teardown
The PAR 38 lamp is rapidly becoming a gateway product for many newcomers to LED aquarium lighting. We’ve been fortunate to have a few of these lamps to try out for several weeks now and after this period we’ve seen…
Quality Marine now shipping AquaBeam 1000 HD Ultra units
If you were one of the lucky ones to see the AquaBeam 1000 HD Ultra LED lighting system Quality Marine had on display at IMAC West or Reef-A-Palooza and were looking to get your hands on one, now is your…
Pacific Sun modular aquarium LED lamp gets upgraded to BT EX status
The Pacific Sun modular aquarium lamp is receiving some fair amount of attention overseas. Digging into the specs of the new Pacific Sun light its not hard to see why with a nice selection of features. There are two models…
New Fish Store in Madrid Spain to use Zero Edge Display tanks
A new store in Madrid Spain is set to open up with an exciting twist. The store, named Coral Reef Spain will feature zero edge tanks for a most if not all of their coral display tanks. This is the…
Aquarium Water Footprints could be the next measure of aquarium and propagation efficiency
Our aquarium water footprint may not yet be at the forefront of how we measure our aquarium’s environmental impact but it should be. With an estimated 1 million private aquariums in the US not to mention a growing population of…
Black Friday and holiday sales kicking off, deals galore
Holiday shopping season officially gets in full swing this week with the usual long pre-dawn lines, mad-dash for the handful of plasma TV’s or other “must-have†doorbusters on sale and crazy crowds known as Black Friday. You won’t need your…
Nano Customs PAR 38 LED lamp produces the most dramatic spotlighting effect
LED spotlighting is an exciting new offshoot of the even lighting spread of LED and other conventional lighting. The image of this little nano cube reef shows the extremely dramatic effect of LED spotlighting. This ADA mini S cube garden…
