Hold on to your corallites folk because all that promise of mass market LED from marineland’s Double Bright is about to get a little closer to reality as we sneak a peek at the HO LED prototype at Global Pet…
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USHIO Introduces G12 Base Metal Halide lamp in Aqualite™ Series
Ushio has released their popular lamp color, Aqualite™ Series in a G12 type bulb. “This new single ended 150W lamp design in 14,000 Kelvin harnesses the ability to align the lamp to a parabolic reflector axially, leading to more efficient…
B-Ionic Seawater mixing pump is not just clean, it’s immaculate
This Tunze Nano Stream’s only job has been as a mixing pump for ESV’s B-Ionic 4 part Seawater system. So far this 6025 has mixed six batches of 5 gallons of water and one batch of 25 gallons and it…
ReefStock 2010 pictures part 2: so many LEDs under one roof
With over 30 aquarium LED products showed off by more than 15 companies at this year’s ReefStock, were going to go ahead a call it: The future is now and LED lighting has truly arrived to the aquarium world. Spotlights,…
Banggais in Lembeh and Maculosus in the Mediterranean, these fish are a long way from home
You know why Pterapogon kauderni is called the Banggai cardinalfish? Because originally it was found only around the Banggai Islands of Sulawesi, Indonesia. After several years of reported sightings of banggai cardinalfish a long way from home, the snapshot above…
Coral Nurseries of Elkhorn and Staghorn Acropora need our support, adopt a coral today
Elkhorn and Staghorn coral nurseries in the Florida Keys are beginning to bear the fruits of their labor. Now that the coral farm founded by Ken Nedimeyer has been in operation for several years, it’s thousands of coral pieces ranging…
First Hand reports of the effects of cold water stress in the Florida Keys
Reef Builders is proud to welcome Collin Foord to the RB writing block. Collin is one of the founders of Coral Morphologic, a long time sponsor of this blog. Through their frequent diving throughout the Florida Keys searching for cool…
Seeing the light: LED optics explained
LED lighting is beginning to take hold in the aquarium hobby and it can be a very complex subject to master when trying to make an informed purchase decision as a consumer. We touched on the topic of underdriving or…
New data shows the 74 watt AquaIllumination LED light is on PAR with a 14K 250 watt halide
It is common knowledge that X-PG LEDs from Cree are way more efficient than the old generation Crees but now that we have some real data to look at, we can really start to compare actual benchmarks. The data above…
Comparing the NanoCustoms and LeDio LED Spotlights over a real nano reef
If a picture is worth a thousand words then the animation above is a 5000 word thesis on the color and spread of a variety of LED spotlights from NanoCustoms and Volx Japan. Over the weekend Taka and I got…
