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MACNA XXI : Nano Custom’s Japanese Style LED Spotlight

For me, one of the most exciting products at MACNA was Nano Custom’s PAR38 LED lamp. These lamps screw into your standard E26 household socket, but unlike traditional spotlights the Nano Customs PAR 38 unit is powered by 5 CREE XR-E LEDs driven at ~750mA for roughly 15w of electric consumption. For the first time [...]

September 30, 2009
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Aqua Rei Photo Contest Shows Off Japanese Reef Hall of Fame

Aqua Rei, a LFS in Japan put on a Photo Contest for its customers to see who had the best aquarium of all. Fortunately for us it has been shared online and highlights some of the most beautiful and well known reefs from Japan.  It’s a mishmash of recent talents like Anagonbe’s Reef and nostalgic [...]

June 8, 2009
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Sfiligoi Gets Sirius With New LED System

Sfiligoi has developed a new LED lighting system dubbed Sirius. The Sirius light system utilizes GU10 LED Spotlights in a pendant-track like system to allow flexible positioning of each “module”. The LED spotlights come in Warm White, Cold White, Blue, Red and Green and in different intensities (1.3W, 2.2W, 3w). The spacing is roughly 4 LED [...]

April 23, 2009
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The Remarkable Pico Reef of Marcello

We’ve featured a variety of aquariums here at Glassbox Design, but never one quite like this. This small reef has been getting some attention lately and understandably so. At 6.6 gallons and 24″ long it’s an impressive feat to keep corals alive, keeping Acroporas is an entirely different level.

Marcello maintains this reef via a chiller, DIY [...]

January 20, 2009
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