Coral Fluorescent Protein (CFP) Checker Flashlight makes it easier to search for special corals

By on Sep 10, 2012

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The Coral Fluorescent Protein Checker Flashlight is the coolest tool we’ve yet seen to help us reefers to “paint by numbers” with the different wavelengths of LED colored light. Like the full-spectrum edition KR93 the CFP Checker flashlight is a joint collaboration between Eco-Lamps, 1.023 World and Blue Harbor Japan. The CFP Checker Flashlight comes in seven different models, each with an LED emitter with a specific wavelength of light known to overlap with the fluorescent pigments of corals. 

The CRF Checker Flashlight comes in seven colors of light with one watt LEDs that have peak light emisison at 365, 380, 400, 420, 450, 475 and 500nm wavelengths. So basically with a set of seven CRF Checker Flashlights you can quickly glance at the fluorescent potential of corals in aquariums and stores with UV light, deep blue, royal blue, blue and cyan colored lighting to excite the whole gamut of coral fluorescent proteins. The CFP Checker flashlight is priced in Japan for the equivalent of $375 for the whole set or $268 if you omit the flashlights with the more exotic and questionably useful 475 and 365nm flavors.

With the marine aquarium hobby experiencing a strong subculture of niche reefers going after super colored disc corals, crazy chalice corals and wild zoanthids we can see the CFP Checker Flashlight being wildly popular in the United States. We like our reef toys and we especially love them if they help see our corals in a really cool light, and help us discover sneaker awesome corals that haven’t yet displayed their full potential. We hoep to be rocking a set of the CFP Checker Flashlight in time for MACNA and ReefAPalooza to add to our coral shopping game. [1.023 World]

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Frick/100001223981671 Jason Frick

    Wow i have been making these in my garage for four years now. I had no idea i could make that much money off them. Hmmmm

  • http://www.facebook.com/cyaaj.thao CCy Thoj

    NO Kidding, Why are these so overpriced? I can throw one together for a few bucks…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wyatt-Patry/708661852 Wyatt Patry

    Whats wrong with 365 and 475nm? You biased against FPs that love those wavelengths?? lol

  • skunkmere

    thats the craziest price i have ever seen. next to the denon ethernet cord.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bass.caroline Caroline Bass

    without the proper filter, you can’t really see the fluorescence. I assume this is why the 475 flashlight is less popular, as without the filter the blue really does reflect off of everything, making the fluorescence almost invisible. In my laboratory we use a variety of flashlights for green and red fluorescent proteins, but I have to say, in my reef it the corals fluoresce quite a bit with the blue, but you can’t tell unless you use the appropriate blue light cutoff filter (either glasses, camera filter or plexiglass. By the way, you can buy a decent blue or green LED flashlight for these purposes for $12 on Amazon.