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    Vertex Illumina LED: First Look at the Light Studio Computer App

    The Vertex Illumina LED light is the newest lighting offering from Vertex Aquaristik. We’ve shown you some rather mediocre photos of this unit over the past few months. Now we’ve got some real images to work with that better show the fan cooled design. Vertex has taken an interesting approach with their Illumina LED fixture, [...]

    August 17, 2010
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    First Look at the New Vertex LumiLux

    We know this light will be called the Vertex LumiLux. That’s about it at. Vertex Operations Manager, Mr. Dorweiler recently shared these photos with a teaser on the name. Anything else is just a guess. Update: We spoke with Vertex and this model was an early prototype which was shown at InterZoo. The final design [...]

    August 12, 2010
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    User Pics of Ecoxotic Photon Cannon

    Ecoxotic’s 50w LED Photon Cannon has begun arriving to eager aquarists. A few weeks GBD reader Rob G. was one of the first aquarists to get his hands on this unit. Enjoy these pictures that should hopefully provide insight into the mounting and color temperature. . So far early users appear relatively happy with their [...]

    August 10, 2010
    | eric michael | Tags: , | 5 Comments

    Aqua Illumination (AI) LEDs Get Royal Blue Treatment

    Aqua Illumination has announced they will be adding a new AI Sol Super Blue color option their best-in-class LED light. As we showed you in our initial Aqua Illumination LED Review, the first models came equipped with two Cree XP-G Cool Whites for every one Cree XP-E Blue, for a 2w : 1b color combination. [...]

    August 2, 2010
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    New ATI Purple Plus T5 Lamp

    Say hello to the new ATI Purple Plus T5 lamp. ATI’s answer to the popular KZ Fiji Purple provides a blue spectrum that mirrors ATI’s Blue Plus lamp, but also provides some nice warm spikes in the 600 – 700 range. What’s interesting is ATI’s revamped website no longer lists their ATI Pro Color. The [...]

    July 30, 2010
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    SNM Clifter Stand Simplifies LED Spotlighting

    The SNM Clifter Holder Series is a simple spotlight stand from Japan that allows users to easily incorporate their favorite LED spotlight. The base clamps on to the top of a rimless tank via a small bracket. Then like a tripod, the height of the bracket can then be adjusted with a clamping mechanism performed [...]

    July 20, 2010
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