10 generations of Aqua Illumination LED lights

Aqua Illumination is the oldest aquarium company around today that has always been specifically dedicated to designing and building LED reef aquarium lights. This week we travelled to Aqua Illumination headquarters to spend some time with the crew, wrap our…

AquaIllumination’s AI Director web based LED controller is buttery smooth to navigate

While at MACNA we dropped by the AquaIllumination booth for a little one on one session with the AI Director. Like many other controlling services, AquaIllumination has made the AI Director agnostic of hardware or software by building a web-accessible…

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…

AI Nano LED review: good things can exist in small packages

I recently updated the lighting on my low tech reef tank with an AI Nano LED which is a world apart from the conventional lighting I had been using. I had some disdain for the included 150-watt “disco-ball” metal halide…

A closer look at the AI ‘Phoenix’ LED and comparison next to the AI Sol and AI Nano

Even if the AI ‘Phoenix’ didn’t light up, it would still be one desirable slab of modern industrial design. Compared to the AI Sol the AI Phoenix is the same footprint but much thinner with special attention paid to every…

AI Sol and AI Nano LEDs will soon be able to enjoy the same wireless control as the “Phoenix”

The new AI Phoenix LED has built-in wireless connectivity which will communicate with a web-enabled black box but what about the AI Nano and AI Sol? AquaIllumination has not forgotten its workhorse Sol and cute little AI Nano which will…

First hands on with the AI Nano LED and mounting arm

It’s been a long time coming but after a year of anticipation it seems like the AI Nano LED light is finally here and shipping to resellers. The small AI Nano really deserves its nano moniker, measuring in at about…

Sneak peek at the business end of the AI Nano

The AI Nano LED light is no longer just a half an AI Sol as the business end of this fixture clearly shows. Whereas the AI Nano Sol initially just included the same triple cluster of LEDs like the AI…

AI Nano LED radically redesigned and release announced for the end of July

Just when we were beginning to think the AI Nano Sol might not be seen again until MACNA, Aqua Illumination goes and officially announces the launch of the much touted little LED light. Aqua Illumination states that it took ten…