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    Hear Your Aquarium with the HARK Acoustic Transmitter Concept

    Suspect a Mantis shrimp? Or maybe you’d like to hear your largest Pomacanthidae grunt… or even take it with you to the aquarium to show the little ones the  sounds of dolphins and whales. That’s the thought process behind Cenk Aytekin’s HARK Acoustic Transmitter concept. A portable device that acts as an aquarium stethoscope, pouring [...]

    January 4, 2010
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    CAD Lights Rimless Set Up Looks Good, Priced Better

    Just a few years ago $500 would not go very far towards a rimless aquarium, let alone one made from starphire. That’s changed with CAD Lights’ new Artisan series of aquariums. For just over 5 bills you can get a 50g starphire rimless, reef ready aquarium with a dark walnut stand. While this tank is [...]

    December 18, 2009
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    New Green Leaf Rimless Aquariums

    17g rimless aquarium , 60 x 30 x 36cm ($95) Freshwater planted specialist Green Leaf Aquariums, LLC has come out with a new line of minimalist rimless aquariums. GLA’s rimless tanks look to rival those of ADA with high clarity 5mm to 10mm thick glass and extremely precise silicone fillets. Fillets are the silicone seams [...]

    November 6, 2009
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    Pulsating Starlight in Morphologic’s Magic City

    Once again leveraging their aquatic creativity, Colin and Jared of Coral Morphologic create the surreal in Magic City. The projector art installation uses 30 photosynthetic Cassiopea xamachana jellyfish to create a pulsating starlight effect behind a minimal and vibrant city landscape. Coral Morphologic writes that this installation was on display at the Sweat Records x [...]

    September 12, 2009
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    Secret Sliding Wall for a Stunning Fish Room?

    I will start by admitting I am bit jealous of my suburbanite counterparts. You have yards, and basements…. and typically much more home space than an urban dweller like myself. While my home is by no means small, there is no way I could dedicate some precious real estate in my open floor plan for [...]

    September 10, 2009
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    Aqua Illumination Modular LED Light Gets Refined and Redesigned

    It seems many have forgotten about Aqua Illumination. Between the Orbitec Patent fiasco and AI’s early testing of plasma lighting, their flagship Aqua Illumination Modular LED lighting system has gotten pushed aside in our short term reefing memories. That will soon change as Chris Clough and the AI team have aesthetically redesigned the light kicking [...]

    September 2, 2009
    | eric michael | Tags: , | 8 Comments