Limulus is come back!

Many of you, and especially hobbyists from electronic and aquarium, will remember AQUASMART, the system developed by Limulus, born from the Roberto Buti‘s desire to create a system to manage their marine aquarium, which then evolved until reaching full maturity with the complete system.

You can read a review of the state of the art of its creation here: Aquasmart by Limulus

Unfortunately at some point the system has run aground, its development has been blocked, and for a time there was concern for the continuity of the system.

Today, finally, Limulus is back, the website has been restored, and finally we have heard about AQUASMART II, you can join the forum and indicate the preferences for the development of this wonderful system.

It ‘s useless to say that I am very happy!

Click on the link to go to the site and then to the forum where you can partecipate to the development of the new system.

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Return Pumps: tests and real measurements compared

The last period on DaniReef.com was really full of work and ideas, too bad not only have enough arms to follow all the projects we initiate.

The project of the return pumps is now old and started with the previous article “return pumps: calculating the flow” that I invite you to read, and which proposed an excel file, downloadable, editable with most of the pumps on the market, which were often recommended as return pumps in the forums and among hobbyists. The file made possible from the data of the pumps and the prevalence of each tank, get a pump flow rate calculated for each individual pump.

Although the file would be updated by anyone, I was always curious to know how pumps would behave in reality as well as declared by individual manufacturers.

During the Zoomark of last year we decided to contact some companies in the industry to do a comparative test of the pumps.

Some have enthusiastically joined,  in true alphabetical order, Eheim, Tunze and Sicce, and they have provided the pumps subject of our comprensive test.

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Blau is ready to present its first LED lighting: Blau Lumina LED

Blau Aquaristik is ready to present to the public its new LED lighting, Blau Lumina LED. There is high expectations behind this lighting thanks to the excellent impression made ​​on the market by his T5 lightings, great products at a very affordable price.

So Blau reinvents itself and will present at Interzoo the new ceiling lighting, based on Epistar LED, which according to them, provide exceptional yield around 17,500 ° K.

The lightings are made ​​of aluminum and will be equipped with 12 2-watts LEDs, with lenses to better direct light output.

To control them you can connect to an external computer, such as Profilux, Apex or others, or to a PC or you can set manually with a simple embedded controller.

 

Will be available at least three modules with 12 LEDs . The marine module integrates 6 led to 17,500°K and 6 blue LEDs of 450nm, the fresh water module has 12 LEDs of 6,500°K, and finally the plant-specific module has 10 6,500°K LEDs  and 2 red LEDs of 623nm.

The Lumina LED Nano will measure approximately 36.6×16, 5×4, 5 cm and should cost around 265 euros, with 12 LEDs. The Lumina LED will measure 36.6 x25x4, 5 cm with 24 LEDs on board and will cost 395 euros. While the longer model from 62.6 x16x5x4,5 cm will be available in two versions, with 24 or with 48 LEDs and a cost of 395 and 695 euros respectively.

 

[via ReefBuilders]

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The truth about salinity in aquarium

The topic of salinity in an aquarium is a highly controversial topic. There is a lot of misleading and confusion when regarding about this topic. Because this is the case, let’s give some “technical” definitions regarding broadness of this matter.

Salinity is the proportion of the content of all salts contained in the sea water, this is expressed in parts per thousands (‰). For example, if we consider a salinity of 35‰, this would mean that if we would have 1000 grams of solution, so we would have more water than salt, as there would be 35 grams of salt and 965 of pure water. Obviously, this is not a size influenced by the temperature. A common mistake is to consider 35 grams of salt per liter of pure water, this is wrong, as shown above from the definition of salinity.

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Photo and video show Oceano Mare in Riccione, Friday, March 23

Friday 23 of march will be held the sixth edition of the photo-video show OCEANOmare.

As in previous years the polisportiva Sub Riccione has organized an evening dedicated to the knowledge of the seas of the world through the vision of movies made by divers with  international reputation.

These are the protagonists of the show:

• Attilio Rinaldi
  
• Mauro Pazzi
• Manfred Bortoli
• Massimo Boyer
• Enrico Rabboni
• Piero Lazzeroni
• Aris Schiavoncini

As with previous editions, this year the event aims to raise funds that will be devolved to Deepshikha High School in Kathmandu, a Nepalese organization that works to protect  orphaned children or living on the streets by giving them an education and all treatment.

During the evening will be also possible to view an exhibition of photographs made by “amateurs” photographers, where there will be some of my photos

Friday 23 of March

PhotoShow: 8.00 pm
VideoShow: 9.00 pm
at Tourism Palace in Riccione,
 Piazzale Ceccarini, 11 
Free Entrance

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Fungia puts up a fight and wins against debris

Here is a beautiful time-lapse video that shows how easily a Fungia will free itself from sediment and sand with which had been accidentally covered.

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AndreaNegu goes from T5 to Elos Epower with the new blue EliteXP

Recently, we talk a lot about led lighting, although it is my opinion that for SPS corals is today still preferable a traditional HQi lamp.

In the future we will definitely have led lighting over our tank, given the advantages they have, especially when it will be possible to have a greater lumens watts than offered today, say around 180/200 lumens per watt to compete with lamps of 250 watts HQi and also 250/300 lumens per watt for 400 watt, and above all a general decline in prices, still quite high.

Even AndreaNegu, owner of a beautiful aquarium already the subject of several photos here  into DaniReef.com and tank of the month of AcquaPortal , in his last tank has decided to change from his T5 lighting with 10 neon, to the wonderful double-E power with manta and blue EliteXP, which is among others one of the first blue EliteXP to be delivered on the market.

The tank as you can see is very beautiful, and all photos of this article are clickable.

As we said the blue EliteXP is one of the first to be delivered on the market, and is composed of 18 3-watt blue LEDs and 3 red LEDs. The power is remarkable, in a tank that measures 125×70 cm you can see with only 3 red led what we can have:

And with only blue LEDs:

We can see the tank from everywhere, it’s really amazing

And also to look at one of the most beautiful clam I ever seen in aquarium

The question that naturally arises is how much the tank has lost or improved by this change, I simply return the photos, leaving you to judge … and I’d like to read your comments.

Self made with 2 LED bars and 10x54w T5, with ATI reflectors:

And with Elos E-Power 2x250w HQi, with Elos Spectra 14.000 °K, Manta and the new Blue EliteXP

Any comments?

 

 

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Aquamar Nanoscope D-D, Review

The Aquamar Nanoscope D-D it’s an optical tool with a 48x magnification. It’s a mesoscope produced by The Aquarium Solution and distribuited in Italy by Aquaristica.

It ‘an object that could satisfy both the playful aspect (allowing you to comfortably observe the spectacle offered by a polyps of SPS as they expand and prey) and the need to inspect the state of health of an animal or verify the presence of micro-organisms and undesirable pests.

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New moon-light LED fixtures from Aquatronica

Aquatronica has just introduced the new moon-light LED fixtures (ACQ510) in three versions ACQ510-60 by 60cm, and ACQ510 by 90cm ACQ510-90-120 by 120cm.

The moon light LEDs have an elegant design and technology and are fixed by Velcro that comes with or by screws for direct mounting on the ceiling and can be used independently of the control system installed in your aquarium.

 

The structure is made of anodized aluminum, while the spotlight is in methacrylate and are sold with the included AC adapter.

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Ecotech Marine VorTech MP40: Our Complete Review

When EcoTech Marine presented the new Vortech MP40 to the aquarium market, a new era began. This product was very nice and soon acquired a lot of interest. It quickly became the “king” of the pumps even before it started functioning. The pump has an external part which incorporates the motor of the pump, this finally crates a pump that almost not noticeable in the tank. At those times it was something incredible.

And today? After many years that the pump has been released on the market, no one has had the courage or the patents in order to develop something similar to it. So up to now it remains the only external magnetic drive pump available in the aquarium market. Still today it remains a dream for many aquarium hobbyists.

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