If you read my blog posts and articles on aquascaping, you hear me blabber on and on about the virtues of great rockwork, avoiding the uninspired rock wall configurations, the Golden Ratio, etc. Yet for all my talk about rockwork,…
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Sol Super Blue AI LED modules now shipping decked out with the tricolor LED pucks
The Sol Super Blue is now a second color option if you are looking to purchase an AI LED from C2 Development. In a recent blog post, Chris Clough announced that the Sol Super Blue would be available starting immediately…
Orphek LED is one sexy aquarium light with mystery LEDs
Orphek’s new LED aquarium light sure is a looker and the 120 to 160 watts of power for $500 is also a very attractive price. The merger of aluminum and acrylic is a very nouveau LED light design which is…
Meet Lisa Ledil, the tiny lens for Cree XP series LEDs
After a few months of anticipation, we’ve finally succeeded in getting our hands on more than a glimpse at the amazingly small Ledil lenses for Cree’s XP series. The white XPG and blue XPE LEDs from the industry performance leader…
Illumina LED light from Vertex is charting it’s own path, outside the US for now
The Illumina LED light from Vertex is a new high performance reef light which is really taking a dynamic course to growing aquarium corals. Hearkening back to the days of the PFO Solaris and it’s infinite suite of modes and…
New captive grown red flowerpot coral from ORA certifies aquarium suitability of some Goniopora
We’re not sure what’s more exciting about the announcement of red flowerpot coral frags from ORA: that we’ll all have easy access to this beautiful, hardy strain of Goniopora stutchburyi or that this ten year old captive coral strain undermines…
Tricolor LED pucks for the AquaIllumination bring the standard and royal blues
We’re not sure what to be most excited about regarding the new Tricolor LED puck for the AquaIllumination light: that it’s the first commercial aquarium LED light to incorporate XP series royal blue LEDs or the first to deliver both…
Sirius Mini Reef 38 modular LED light from Sfiligoi uses numbers over strength
The Sirius Minireef 38 LED light is a new nano reef aquarium light from Sfiligoi that uses GU10 base LED spotlights. Unlike most reef aquarium LED lights which use small numbers of very high output LEDs, the Sirius LED spots…
Rise of medical marijuana may have consequences on LED lighting for reef aquariums
In a surprising bit of news we’re reporting that marijuana (yes the Cannabis plant) is having a direct impact on the reef aquarium hobby. The popularity of medical marijuana may be a double-edged sword in the widespread availability of new…
Boost your color with green light, an additional source of fluorescence excitation
For years and years we’ve seen a hobby dominated by white lights, with blue actinics. Be it halide, pc, vho, led, or anything else; the usage of a bright white light with the enhancement of blue light (about 420 to…
