The Maxspect Razor (or R420R as it is often referred to) is incredibly thin, quiet, easy control with a great color pop which has us seriously impressed. Although the main LED body is not mindbogglingly thin at 0.9” (which is still really…
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Illumin8 LED striplights from CoralVue offer basic solid state efficiency
Illumin8 is a new line of LED striplights from CoraLVue which will come in three basic colors. These simple, efficient Illumin8 LED strips are powered by one watt blue or white SMT LEDs made by Epistar in either a 460nm…
Radion Pro’s eight color LED cluster brings out incredible coral color rendition
This weekend we got our first look at the Radion XR30w Pro LED from Ecotech Marine and we walked away quite impressed. To some of us, ourselves included, the idea of having a multitude of LED colors in an aquarium…
Lawrence Chan’s SPS reef from Hong Kong
Lawrence Chan’s SPS reef is just a plain nice looking SPS dominated aquarium. Great coloration, enough room for the corals to grow and a big hammer dominating the scape make this aquarium a pleasure to look at. Located in Hong…
Lophelia found at record depths in Gulf of Mexico
Lophelia may very well be one of our favorite corals ever – its stark white skeleton, elegant growth pattern and stunning transparent polyps making this an absolutely dreamy azooxanthellae coral. For those of you that do not know what we…
Mycedium robokaki chalice with raspberry colored eyes introduced by LiveAquaria
Mycedium robokaki is a chalice coral that continues to surprise us. We’ll never forget the first time we spotted Mycedium robokaki with a plain tan base color and tiny bright orange mouths. Back in 2007 the reef hobby was still…
170 lumens per watt light bulb made a reality by Cree
There once was a time when lighting industry experts hoped that one day we would get LED-powered light bulbs with an efficiency of 100 lumens per watt, that was the hoop dream. Following on their bleeding edge 152 lumen per…
Remarkable Galaxea colony corallites and polyps filmed in the wild
Not sure what is going on with this unusual looking colony of Galaxea, but we’re glad that Bruce Carlson took the time to film it. Unlike the typical Galaxea fascicularis that we see in the aquarium trade, this Galaxea colony has extremely long…
Yellow polyp orange cap – who knew that montipora came in this color?
We recently spotted an orange capricornis with yellow-green polyps at World Wide Corals which totally took us by surprise. As long as the aquarium hobby’s been keeping and growing plating Montipora corals and as many colored-polyp colonies that have been maricultured…
LD Lighting Engine is a new type of light source from Toshiba
LD Lighting is a new type of light source from Toshiba which uses lasers to light up an emitter. Not to be confused with LED, LD Lighting stands for “Laser Diode” lighting so instead of using broad emission LED like…
