Put round one in the books and get your voting fingers ready for the second round of the 2011 Aquarium LED showdown. As we mentioned before, we picked our 32 top stories on new aquarium LED lighting that appeared in…
2011 Aquarium LED lighting showdown — we’ll let you decide
Looking back at our posts in 2011 we can definitely see the effect of LED lighting in the aquarium market, proving to be one of the hottest topics we covered this past year. With so many new products hitting…
First unboxing of the Ecoxotic Panorama Pro LED Fixture
With Ecoxotic releasing their new Panorama Pro Fixture to hobbyists, it got me thinking – this seems like as good of time as any to set up a frag tank. Due to the high cost of electricity here in California,…
The Cree XT-E Royal Blue LED Explained
You may have begun to notice Cree XT-E blue LEDs being included on some newer aquariums lights and unlike previous advancements, this generation of LEDs is designed for more than simple brightness and efficiency gains. The Cree XT-E royal blue…
Using water droplets as an LED lens and diffuser
We recently set up a new gyre flow frag tank, a 33 Long aquarium which is 48 inches long and lit by an assortment of lights including a NanoBox Reef LED. Since it’s winter and really dry in Colorado a…
Full rundown of PacificSun’s big bet on high LED diversity in the Hyperion R2
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a war going on in the aquarium LED reef light market for more diversity of LEDs and more and more control of separate channels. You can see a trend in mainstream aquarium products meeting…
Ecoxotic releases inline LED dimming module
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2djjgTgS0g[/youtube] If you are looking for a simple dimmer for your Ecoxotic LED lights the new Ecoxotic Inline LED Dimmer is a great option. Designed to manually dim LED lights, the module gives you a flicker-free way to change the…
Tricolor PAR38 LED spotlight introduced by Ecoxotic
No, it’s not another RBG LED; it’s a new Tricolor PAR38 LED spotlight aquarium bulb featuring four 6500K White LEDs, two 660 nm Red LEDs, and six 453 nm Blue LEDs consuming a total of only 18 watts of power…
Mu Series 100 ad 135 LEDs from BoostLED is equipped with a tangible amount of violet LEDs
The Mu Series 100 and 135 LEDs are new reef aquarium LED light fixtures from BoostLED which are equipped with a few LEDs in the ‘exotic’ end of the blue light spectrum. In addition to the standard neutral white and…
Maxspect Mazarra P-Series Unboxing & Impressions
The Mazarra P Series LED light by MaxSpect showed up on my doorstep today, and I wanted to share the unboxing experience. Everything was efficiently packaged, and included plenty of extras, including 3 different optics. The finish on these P-series modules…
