The AquaBeam 600 Ultra Fiji is the first striplight from Tropical Marine Centre (TMC) which brings the highly prized Cree Royal Blue LED to the AquaRay line of aquarium LED strip lights. Whereas the first all-blue TMC AquaRay used a Cree LED with a color close to Cyan with an emission peak close to 510nm, the Cree Royal Blue brings out totally different colors with an emission peak near 445nm. The color of the Cyan LED is more of blue-green, but in North America reefers love deep blue LEDs – using the royal blue in conjunction with the Cyan strips will excite a wide range of fluorescent pigments. The AquaBeam 600 Ultra Fiji is 12 19.5 inches long, 12 watts, dimmable through the use of the TMC AquaRay controller and should retail for under $150. [Quality Marine]
AquaBeam 600 Ultra Fiji finally brings Cree Royal Blue LEDs to TMC Aquaray
Jake Adams
Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.
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