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The quality light product manufacturer Advanced Lighting Solutions will soon be delivering one of it’s flagship products, the halide/Actinic LED combo pendant. A metal halide pendant with built in supplemental actinic LED is one of our dream aquarium lighting products and it is right around the corner from being available for purchase. Don’t be confused with the plethora of other lights out there which have a couple of blue LEDs for moonlight purposes; each one of these professionally designed actinic LED lights can produce PAR numbers upwards of 200 umols and they will spill out more than enough blue light to match the intensity of your 150-400 watt metal halides. Furthermore, the LED actinics are fully directable so you’ll be able to get that spot of color exactly where you want it in your tank. The ALS pendants which are available (and configurable) for double or single ended metal halide use will run $160 and the actinic LEDs will also run $160 each with the included mounting brackets to attach to the ALS pendant. Premium Aquatics and Marine Depot should be receiving their first bacth of the halide/led combo pendants in about two weeks and we expect to see some deals out there selling the pendant and two actinic strips in the $425-450 range.
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I was super lucky to have Joy and Tullio come to my place after the max show.
they placed the demo unit on my cube tank.and I was blown away.
I thought I had seen it all.but these lights are truly unique and made the colors pop.there is no other l.e.d. color blend that even comes close by anyone else.
I want one. Even though the Halide looks like a Drywall mud tin. Ha Ha…..
i wonder if it will offer a single ended MH pendant
“The ALS pendants which are available (and configurable) for double or single ended metal halide use”
One of the hot features in fact (DE or SE). Another great one is the fact you can move the DE mount to accommodate various bulb sizes!
Just got off the phone with Tullio and ordered this fixture. I cannot wait till this is over my tank. Tullio was a complete pleasure to speak with he really knows his lighting.
How do I go about ordering one of these? I could not find anything posted on PA or MD yet. How do I reach Tullio?
Tullio’s phone is turned off. I have not received my light and I have not heard from him in weeks. Does anyone know how to get in touch with him or his many companies?
Kc3
Tullio is on the hit list with many people. We have ordered lights from him last year and still have not recieved. His phone is now disconnected and all of this companies have disappeared. ARAD, PFO, and ADVANCED I wish you the best of luck!!!!
Sorry to say this folks, but Tullio is done for good. He is in Jail and will be for a long time. Our club lost $638 because of him… not happy at all. I’ve known him for over 4 years and never thought this would happen….
http://www.uticaod.com/news/x313691752/Sylvan-Beach-man-charged-in-assault
Man that makes me so mad. He got me for $445.00 through Paypal. I guess Ill never see that money again. Guess I’ll have to drive up to New York. \
Does anybody have any ideas or opinions of what to do? I’m not sure if this counts as a fraud that Bank of America will cover. These lights had to be in production before this happened. They were set to hit the stores in a week.
If you used Paypal, you can file a claim as long as you sent the money within 45 or 90 days… Not Sure. I know they protect you if you are with in those days and a seller does not send the product….
It’s 45 days, I checked when I tried to see what we could do to get our club money back
I just took a $2100 hit as well. Ordered four of these fixtures. What a _ _ _ _ing dirtball!
Although Tullio has some personal issues to deal with right now, I believe all orders placed through Advanced Lighting Solutions will be filled and a statement will be released next week. Hang tight! the LEDs and TwinArcs are still coming.
Jake – Who do you represent? I paid through paypal to AquariumDirect. $2100 for 4 fixtures, ballasts, 250W twin arcs, and light suspension rack. Is someone going to honor that order?
Darren
Darren, I don’t represent anyone besides reef builders, I posted this entry and I am tracking the progress of what is shaking down on the industry side of this matter. Please stay calm, Tullio is an honest man who made an honest mistake and I firmly believe that neither you nor anyone will be left hanging.
That’s good because in the meantime I am financing the $2100 that I paid 4 weeks ago. I also haven’t met too many honest people that dissapear, leave there customers hanging, disconnent both phone numbers, don’t return calls or emails, and end up in jail……maybe I’m wrong. I have to admit I am a little suprised though because Tullio was very nice and helpful on the phone…he talked my ear off for like an hour and I felt really good about the investment at that time.
I felt the same way when I talked to him. He was very knowledgeable about lighting but I felt like after I made my Payment it was then hard to get a hold of him. Honestly I’m not sure I even want it anymore. What if any of us need support or have a problem with the fixture? I guess time will tell. Jake was Tullio a one man operation? I would just like to say thank you for tracking this issue. I stayed up all night scrambling on what to do over my 400+ bucks. I can’t imagine if it was $2100.
Anybody have an update? I hope to hear something in 8-10 days per Paypal, my credit card company, and the authorities.
Nothing new that I’ve heard.
Any news yet?
If anybody can help me? I orderd the new light ficture and recieved nothing.
Jake you must not know the real Tulio, what he did is about as bad as it gets, who knows what might have happened if the girl had not gotten out of the car, he was covered in her blood, this is not the kind of guy you or reefbuilders should vouch for.
Tulio had a ton of blow, so im sure he was happy to talk your ears off guys….
As some of you already know, Tullio Del Aquilla is currently involved in legal issues which prevent him from being able to deliver on products which have been ordered but have not yet been delivered. If you ordered products from AquariumDirect you are encouraged to dispute the charges with your credit card company or bank and try to get your money back. We believe that Advanced Lighting Solutions will be dissolved and the exciting products they started to launch will be made available through a new company that will buy the rights to their designs.
Paypal just told me they cannot give any funds back because there are none to give.
I contacted my bank….
Kc3
Paypal reimbursed me $44 of my $2200. I’m filing liens on personal property and businesses as well as calling my credit card company.
Shouldn’t the company buying the rights be responsible for the debt’s owed currently.
Darren please contact me on RC. I would like to talk to you about this.
Hey I have a thread on RC about this. Can we all stay in touch in that thread or another to make it easier than commenting here. Copy and paste below.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=15260085#post15260085
I just saw the Twin Arc bulb are out now. They are said to be ReefBrite bulbs. Any info on this company?
Just to shed a little light on Tullio. I would like say he is NOT a honest man! I own an aquarium servicing company and got played by this jerk. Yes, he is knowledgable but, not honest. I met him at a tradeshow(only for stores) and he sold me on about $1000 worth of his “Omegastar” compact flourescent bulbs, sold through Omega One food’s company. After getting them, I installed them on about 8 different clients tanks. A few days later the calls started to come in. They were burning out left and right. One client came home to a layer of smoke filling the room and unpluged it before a fire started. I called Omegasea and this girl Lisa gave me the run-around, telling me to call tullio. He answered and filled my ears with info, just like he did with you guys. Telling me to send my light to him and he’ll fix it for free. I never saw the light back. Also gave me excuses about his dying wife for months and then when she did pass away, gave me more excuses about all the paper work he had to do after that! And don’t get me wrong, when I heard his wife was dying, I gave him time, alot of time. Then when she passed, I gave him alot more time. Then he promised me to send the light back plus the replacement bulbs. That never happened. I call and called leaving over a dozen messages. Nothing. Then I called Omegasea LTD up and explained the situation. They said since it was passed three months and they could not give me a refund. Total bull SH*T. The a few months later, just out of curiosity, I check his name out and found out Tullio’s “night life”. What a dirt bag! I have no simpathy for this jerk nor the Omegasea ltd company. I had to replace the light for the customer that never got sent back and had to re-buy all the bulbs back (from another company), costing me even further. Since then I have stoped carrying all Omegasea products and so have most of my associates. If you go on their website, they still carry Tullio’s bulbs and lighting products. If they were smart, they’d dump it! Also, they said that I was one of the only company to have a problem with those bulbs. That is huge lie. I know a few of my friends who own servicing companies also have the same problems. I hope all of you who have gotten cheated by this guy get something back eventually, but I doubt it. As for Tullio, if you are reading this, you got yours! Charma is a bitch. Jake, you may still have some simpathy for him but, I’m sure you didn’t get cheated or lied to over and over again from him. The lies he told me spand about almost year.
Peter, first off sorry for your loss, you simply have no clue of what Tulio has been through this year. The old company and most of all the old ties are gone but a new one has arisen, Reef Brite. Tulio is NOT nor ever would be the type to EVER cheat someone, if something he developed was faulty he would make all attempts to figure out why, use that attempt as constructive for the future and fix it and fix it with you and move on. HE IS IN JAIL, not because he did much of anything wrong, but mainly because his now dead Wife’s family are hateful and seriously drove him crazy for many months before AND after his wifes death, (year sounds familiar?) as he was trying to put his life back together over a major loss…..Yeah it sucks you got caught in the middle of this but in all TRUE honestly he had ZERO control over everything, he wouldve never willingly ignored you or failed to help. As for previous post on Reef Brite taking over previous debts….no, they have a patent nothing more, the owners and backers are totally different and with Joy Meadows at the helm it couldn’t possibly be stronger. She will NEVER EVER back a product she doesn’t believe in no matter whose name is on it, and check her out, she is very well known and very much trusted through-out the reefing community. As a person I couldn’t imagine watching a loved one wither away and die over time (it was not fast and VERY painful), and as a person I couldn’t imagine juggling a business on so many fronts when all I had to go home to was hate and deceit. But as a person I can try to understand and not condemn before the person has a chance to recover and make it right. Unfortunatly this will take time for Tulio as he cant do much where he is now. Also a little P.S. , Check yourself on the Karma (not charma), as with post like the one you just posted it may be hanging over your own head.
oh and as an amendment….. the dead wives family and friends OWN that stupid Sylvan Beach websight making untrue and unjust allegations….all post of theirs as well as some of the obvious “plants” on this sight have been archived for further legal options. The real truth on it all may shock you, but then again its people and what can ya say. I wonder if her Daughters are doing ok now that Tulio no longer pays all of their bills?
Tom, I’m sure my loss is only a very small part of all those who have bought or invested into Tullio’s products and company. I was and am a very compassionate person. When I heard of wis wife’s illness, I gave him as I said before much time to deal with his situation (even though as they say business is business and personal is personal). Also, I need you to keep in mind that during this time I gave him, I am dealing with many complaint calls from Tullio’s compact bulbs. I spent a better part of a week running around to distributors getting new bulbs and a replacement light to customers that were complaining or not. I couldn’t take the chance on those bulbs even on those customers that didn’t compalin(above the 8 previously mentioned). And I was right. The bulbs on the customers that didn’t complain were unusually blacken at the end or down to less than 50% of their usual brightness. Mind you, many of these are reef tanks. And During one of our phone conversation, Tullio admitted that he had to have his factory silicon the bulb ends since many of them were loose and many of the connections were touching/shorting out. What really gets me is when you give someone so much time and simpathy and then have all that shove in your face at the end, thats just not right. Also, I even asked Tullio to just send the light back un-fixed, and he couldn’t do that. I mean what kind of way would you have to go out of to just call the warehouse and have them send be back the light? Was I asking too much? After losing so much time and money that I told him about? He must have told me at least 5 times i’d recieve it in a week. He even told me word for word “I’m not going to dick you around anymore”. Really, how hard would it have been to make a phone call and send someone back a defective light? If I wanted to give away so much i’d rather help the local soup kitchen then to be given this treatment and then questioned about my own Karma. Also, Tom, you said “HE IS IN JAIL, not because he did much of anything wrong, but mainly because his now dead Wife’s family are hateful and seriously drove him crazy for many months before AND after his wifes death, (year sounds familiar?) as he was trying to put his life back together over a major loss”. Does Trying to abduct or whatever he was trying to do with that lady in her car represent “not because he did much of anything wrong”? Are you saying all the reports about his violent act and Cocaine possession are lies? Then why is he in jail? I really don’t care what kind of stress he’s in, you just don’t go out and do something like that. “AS HE WAS TRYING TO PUT HIS LIFR BACK TOGETHER AFTER A MAJOR LOSS”, I”m not even going to go there. I’m sure if Tullio did that to your wife or family member, you would’nt be saying that. Let’s just ask the lady that saw him that night if she’s ok with it. Tom, my Karma is totally intack, it’s my story and the many other ones here about Tullio that will warn others of him so the same mistake won’t be repeated. Also, if anyone who has loss from transactions with Tullio would like to still buy lights, post your email on here, I will sell them to you at my cost. I will not make a penny. I will limit only a certain number(I have to run a business). Only thing I ask is be honest and post only if you have loss to Tullio.