by Ellery Wong | Apr 25, 2023 | Equipment, Reef, Technology
The OSix Controller for their OR3 LED bars is the latest offering from Orphek. Previously, LED bars were promoted for supplemental lighting. Today, advancements in the design have made them another option to fully light your... by danireef | Feb 15, 2022 | Equipment
We are ready to test the new Orphek OR2 Blue Plus, it’s the second LED bar we’ve ever had, and we expect to get even more in the future. The bars are beautiful, solid, and seem very well... by Marcin Smok | Apr 6, 2018 | Equipment, Industry, Opinion
LED light emitters glittering over a reef tank’s water surface, providing life giving energy to the corals and other photosynthetic animals beneath, is as much of a typical sight nowadays as metal halides hanging over reef aquariums were in the nineties and early... by Saltwater Smarts | Jul 14, 2016 | Corals, Reef, Science
Stylophora are a less-challenging SPS coral that still provides a similar aesthetic to more difficult speciesStylophora are branching small-polyp stony corals from the Family Pocilloporidae. Stylophora shares that family with Pocillopora and Seriatopora, and the three together are the only genera in the family. As a result of their close relationship to one another, all three of these genera share quite a lot in common. What is immediately obvious is that their appearance is very similar. They are all bushy, branching corals, and even on close inspection, their polyps are nearly indistinguishable. So, this is one of the rare instances where observing the whole colony is more helpful than taking a close look. Stylophora vs. Pocillopora vs. by Marcin Smok | May 25, 2016 | Equipment, Industry, Technology
Rapid LED, an American company that supplies LED parts for legions of DIY aficionados in the hobby, just announced their newest saltwater-specific LED panel, called Corona. Designed and assembled in-house in Burlingame, California, the light joins the wide catalog of...
