Reef Capable LED from Marineland should begin shipping to retailers this week

The Reef Capable LED is the second generation solid state light from Marineland which is a huge improvement over the first Double Bright LED. Although the Reef Capable LED could use a little more blue for reef applications, this LED…

Vitrea Unico 56 is a classy aquarium set up with a lot of glass

The Vitrea 56 is a unique aquarium set up which is very easy to look at. With a high clarity glass tank, a glass sump, a glass LED light and even glass in the trim of the stand, Vitrea’s Unico…

AcanLighting A104 delivers excellent color with only two LED types

The AcanLighting A104 is the newest LED light from the young aquarium lighting company and we were quite impressed with our first sighting of the A104 running over corals at the Age of Aquariums booth this weekend. The fanless and…

Jet engine cooling used in groundbreaking new LED lamp design from GE

One of the factors which has hampered takeover of LEDs in all lighting applications is the ability to manage the heat that LEDs produce. When LEDs run at higher temperatures they are not as efficient at producing light but most…

WavePoint LED spotlight pendants coming soon, available in January

WavePoint Technology LED spotlight pendants were being shown off at Reef-A-Palooza this weekend and we found out these clip-on pendants  will be hitting the US market in January. The WavePoint LED pendants feature 5W of LED lighting and will come…

Ecoxotic has funeral for traditional aquarium lighting as we know it

Ecoxotics definitely is sending a message to the traditional lighting as we know it with their funeral motif at Reef-A-Palooza. The display is timely with Halloween right around the corner but their message is definitely a bit beyond just a…

Far Red LEDs from Sunbrite peak at 680nm

Red LEDs may have not joined the ranks of regular use like blue and white LEDs but that hasn’t stopped Sunbrite LED from bringing out a second crimson. In addition to their previous shade of red with a peak of…

Illumagic Blaze gets LED color control demonstrated on video

The Illumagic Blaze LED light fixture offers an interesting combination of LED colors with manual control of several channels. The fixture featured in the video appears to be using three channels: one with white and warm white, another with blue…

Pacific Sun LEDs getting built-in ProFilux interface

Pacific Sun just announced that the company is incorporating a built-in GHL ProFilux interface into the company’s LED fixtures. The on-board interface was developed by Pacific Sun and will communicate quite nicely with any of the ProFilux controllers allowing you…

iPhone controlled iGlo LED Set let’s you put a rave on your reef, emulate a red-orange sunrise or a deep blue twilight

[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0tsz2DQVBs[/youtube] There’s no doubt that the iGlo LED Set is being targeted at an audience other than the reef aquarium crowd, but one look at what this real time, wifi-controlled LED strip can do and our reef-obsessed gears…