EconLux SolarMeter is best suited to measuring blue and UV light

The SolarMeter from EconLux is the first new light measuring tool to ‘compete’ with the near monopoly that Apogee’s PAR meter and UV meter have in the aquarium world. We use the word compete in quotations because there are two…

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April 10– April 16th Fishtank Kings — National Geographic releasing new aquarium reality show Remora S and Remora Pro S are the biggest new changes to the venerable spray injected protein skimmers C.A.S.T. from Coral-Shop is an innovative take on…

AquaticLife LED Marine Light Fixture gets PAR values all kinds of mapped out

Whether you want to know the color spread of the LEDs, or the given PAR value at a particular depth, AquaticLife has taken great care to put together a complete data set to their LED Marine Light Fixture. With a…

ReefStock raffle alone is worthy of the trip to Denver this weekend!

We like to do it right when it comes to our own event — great vendors, cool location, smart speakers and a raffle worthy of a visit to Denver for ReefStock on its own! This year we have another great…

Panorama Pro LED and Mini 38 Nuvo aquarium are a near perfect match

The Nuvo aquarium series from Innovative Marine is a hot-selling reef aquarium package which is designed to pair up with the Skkye LED tablet but it also plays especially nice with another LED aquarium light. While at Aquamart in Lakewood Colorado this…

Change is good, a summation of a transition from metal halide to LED lighting

After reviewing the Mazarra LED light on a 180-gallon and the AI Nano LED on a 34-gallon, I’ve been getting a lot of emails about whether I’m happy with the transition overall. There are a lot of aquarist on the…

Elite Eight narrowed down in 2011 Aquarium LED lighting showdown

The votes continue to roll in here for our 2011 Reader’s Choice LED showdown. The first two rounds are complete and we have it narrowed down to the Elite Eight in this fun way for our readers to chose the…

2011 Aquarium LED lighting showdown — Round 2 of the Reader’s Choice ready for votes!

Put round one in the books and get your voting fingers ready for the second round of the 2011 Aquarium LED showdown. As we mentioned before, we picked our 32 top stories on new aquarium LED lighting that appeared in…

2011 Aquarium LED lighting showdown — we’ll let you decide

  Looking back at our posts in 2011 we can definitely see the effect of LED lighting in the aquarium market, proving to be one of the hottest topics we covered this past year. With so many new products hitting…

Top 6 aquatic industry (hobby) shake ups of 2011

Throughout 2011, there were several things that changed the aquatics industry. Of course, there were hundreds of events that we covered in 2011, but we narrowed the list down to an even six. What were they? Click the read more…