Don’s High Tech reef tank, built by Blue World Aquarium, is an exercise in futurism resulting in a stunningly unique marine aquarium ‘machine’. Blue World Aquariums first crossed our radar with their XBOX 360 master piece, and they’ve clearly not been sitting…
Bridging the old & new: revisiting halides after some time with LEDs
Over the last few years, I migrated every reef tank I have to LED, even a little freshwater nano is running LED. I think there is a huge future in LEDs and switching to LED changed my view on lighting…
Edith Widder TED Talk explains the role of luminesence in attracting the giant squid
History was made when around three months ago, the first footage of a giant squid was caught. Not only was video produced, the giant squid was captured in some seriously high definition resulting in absolutely stunning footage. Part of the…
Philips TLED lamp prototype hits 200lm/W
Philips, the lighting company behind the Luxeon series of LEDs that are used by a number of aquarium fixture makers, recently announced that they have a prototype LED lamp that is hitting an efficiency of 200lm/W. The 1500lm, 3000-4500K, 7.5W…
MarineReefLED Quadspec V2 Spotlights breath new life into the PAR 20 bulb
The Quadspec V2 LED PAR 20 bulbs are exciting new spotlights from MarineReefLED, with a great visual appeal and pretty unique spectrums . We got our hands on the PAR20 Quadspec spotlight and the PAR20 Fiji Blue spotlight and in person…
Maxspect Razor clone ‘Tesla LED’ spotted in the wild
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and with this LED fixture we spotted — the Maxspect Razor definitely should be flattered. We recently heard about this similar-looking fixture from Clovers LED, an equipment wholesaler in Asia, that bears an uncanny resemblance to the Razor.…
Lights go on for the Kessil A360 webpage
The highly anticipated Kessil A360 LED pendant is now available marked by the new A360 product page going live on the Kessil website. We were able to see these first hand at Reef Stock earlier this month and if you…
Orphek PR72 improves on the PAR56 LED spotlight
PAR 38 spotlights are hugely popular among the nano reef aquarium crowd, and they were probably some of the first LED fixtures people widely used. Now Orphek has decided to upsize the traditional PAR 38 spotlight with the creation of…
CherryAqua iNano LED gets some video love by Reef Secrets
The CherryAqua iNano is a really cool LED fixture with a refreshing design, that up until recently was only available within Asia, but now seems to enjoy international distribution. Reef Secrets in Australia received some units, and they were nice…
AI Sol and Vega LEDs get a massive deployment at DeJong Marinelife
DeJong Marinelife is a world-class wholesaler that has gotten a lot of love from Reef Builders for good reasons. We got a look into DeJong Marinelife’s operations through a video two years back, but since then they’ve made the switch…
