[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvCJujVElr4[/youtube] The Blackreef aquarium controller and modules we saw at Aquarama are getting some fine tuning in advance of the company’s more public release coming up this year at Interzoo. While most of the work is being done on the…
Hands on with the Vertex LumiLux LED striplight with details and pricing
The Vertex LumiLux LED striplight is a solid Cree-packin’ reef light which we first posted back in May when we first them saw at the Vertex booth at InterZoo. Today we remembered that we’re still sitting on a pile of…
Hydor Slim Skim internal skimmer gets all kinds of taken apart
The Slim Skim is an interesting new internal protein skimmer that is constructed with an extremely accessible design. Unlike most protein skimmers on the market which are made from tubes or cones, the Hydor Slim Skim is made from a…
Solar powered pH meter from Macro Aqua has no batteries to run out
While comparing the new ATI powercone and ATI purple plus T5 lamps to some products we spied at Germany’s InterZoo, we were reminded of this solar powered pH pen we caught disfiguring the side of a perfectly nice trimless tank.…
Sfiligoi Vision: Cycling through the power levels of this Italian Plasma Arc light fixture
The Sfiligi Vision is a Plasma Arc light fixture which is flanked with four high output T5 fluorescent tubes. The Sfiligoi Vision is the first plasma light we have seen with a decent reflector for the LIFI emitter/burner and it…
Taking in the grandeur of InterZoo 2010 through this video slideshow
With all of the InterZoo reporting we’ve done in the last month of posting, many of you are aware that InterZoo is a big show with tons of new products. What you probably haven’t been able to imagine is the…
Vitrea touchscreen controller for the Orbital LED light detailed on video
The Vitrea Orbital LED light is an aquarium fixture with a clear focus on aesthetic and design and as such, the new touchscreen controller Vitrea is releasing follows that motif quite well. While we were at InterZoo we could not…
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…
C-Series Fluval power filter from Hagen now with lots of stages
The Fluval C series power filter has so many filtration stages that it’ll make you think twice about your sump or wet-dry. Ok, we wouldn’t go that far with the C series power filter but even though Hagen has usually…