The lookdown, Selene vomer, is a very interesting fish with a stunning appearance that changes throughout it’s life. Lookdowns are frequently available from Florida and Caribbean reef life suppliers but these are usually as medium to large sized fish which…
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…
Video of dancing RGBY LEDs of the Mame Eco-Light
The RGBY LEDs of the Mame Eco Light are truly something when it comes to dialing in the color and spread on your reef tank. The video we produced at InterZoo of the Eco Light was only doing a demo…
Some “Light Conversation”- Lightfair 2010 and the LED Revolution
It’s no secret that the crew here at Reef Builders are huge fans of LED lighting. Seems like not a day goes by when we’re not breaking something new on this evolving technology. It’s a fact- LED technology is not…
Fauna Marin LPS pellet coral food quickly eaten by a Scolymia australis
The LPS Pellet coral food by Fauna Marin sure seems to elicit a strong feeding response in this Scolymia australis. As you can see in the video above by our sponsor Cherry Corals, within less than 90 seconds of sprinkling…
Video of Mame Design’s 2nd generation Eco-Light with 49 watts of RGB and Yellow LEDs
Without question, the Mame eco-light is the most serious effort we’ve seen put into an RGB LED aquarium light. In case you may not be familiar, nearly all the high powered LED reef lights are getting their strength from high…
Tricolor scopas tang video of a large captive specimen swimming calmly at Southwest Marines
The Tricolor tang we shared with you a couple of weeks back was cooperative for both the still and video cameras. It took a while for this large captive specimen living at Southwest Marines to relax with our camera in…
Red Dragon 4 supercar water pump from Royal Exclusiv, video walkthrough by Klaus Jansen
The Red Dragon 4 water pump from Royal-Exclusiv is perhaps the highest performance water pump ever created by an aquarium company. Granted, this device is currently as useful as a nuclear warhead waiting for the cold war to come to…
Sfiligoi Astra ultra-flat design LED reef light
The Astra LED light fixture made by Sfiligoi was one of the more attractive and eye-catching fixtures that we saw in the clamp-on light category at InterZoo 2010. The fiber-optic side accent is novel and the profile of the fixture…
Video of the X-inout in action at the Xaqua InterZoo booth
X-aqua X-Inout device instantly struck us as one of the most innovative and potentially very popular marine aquarium products of InterZoo 2010. The X-inout looks inocuous enough but something about the fluid dynamics of the return part of the device…