Page 15 - Lighting
The experienced BRStv team covers everything you need to know about LED lights, T5 fluorescent, LED hybrids, and even metal halide lighting to successfully illuminate your saltwater aquarium or reef tank.
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LED manufacturers do not make clear recommendations for how many LED fixtures you need and how to space them over your tank. The reason is because when it comes to reef tank lighting, every tank is...Read more
Finding the right height to mount your reef tank lighting, specifically LED lights, can be confusing because the advice is often conflicting. The reason this gets a bit tricky is because every tank...Read more
Randy compares the top two T5/LED Hybrid light solutions, the Giesemann Stellar and Aquatic Life Hybrid.Read more
PAR VS. PUR. At First it was as simple as the number of bulbs we needed then someone measured PAR and told us that was the holy grail and we all need to set our LED’s to a PAR number. Now, we all...Read more
Slide and pray is becoming a tired story about reefers trying to find the right PAR values and reef tank lighting schedule. The proven results with simple plug and play T5 and metal halide lighting...Read more
The wait is over for Red Sea’s ReefLED aquarium light and of course, we immediately put it through the gauntlet of rigorous PAR and spectrum testing to see if it produces a viable light energy...Read more
With 90% or more of reefers using LED lights, the days of the plug-and-play simplicity you get with metal halides and T5 bulbs are long gone. The controllability of LED lighting gives us the...Read more
T5 reef lighting makes it easier to get results and are often much cheaper. It is not that T5s are inherently better than LEDs. In fact, it is possible to achieve even better results with LEDs but is...Read more
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