The technological advances in the hobby each year are fascinating to look back at and reef aquarium lighting is no exception. 2009 brought many new improved lighting on the market. Despite the fall of PFO and the LED patent war…
Korallen Zucht’s new KZ Super Blue T5 lamp
Korallen Zucht which makes products like Zeovit thought it might be a good idea to release their KZ Super Blue T5 lamp to the masses over in Germany. We should start to see the distribution chain sprinkle out from there.…
Reflekta’s PM3 Dimmable T5 lighting fixtures
Reflekta, a company out of the republic of Slovenija has released a new type of T5 lighting system that you won’t be able to get in many places. The T5 lighting fixture features their PM3 light equiped in a nicely…
LET Lighting-Modular T5 lighting systems
If you haven’t heard of LET (leading edge technology) lighting then you aren’t the only one. This company is offering T5 lighting that is similar in design and build quality to Aqua Illuminations. Their newest (and only) line of T5…
IceCap introduces T5 lighting bulbs
IceCap has gotten into the T5 lighting bulb business with new T5 bulbs. There are 5 total varieties to choose from including Reef crest (10k), Midwater (12k), Deepwater (14k), Actinic, and Twilight. These bulbs are made by UVL with the…
Linkable Dual-lamp T5 HO light fixture from AquaticLife
The new linkable t5 fixtures from AquaticLife allow for the thrifty reefer to put their overall light system on layaway. The 2 lamp t5 lighting unit can link up to three fixtures for up to six T5 lamps in a…
Wave Point Technology raising the bar with upcoming premium T5 lighting products
New aquarium lighting company Wave Point Technology is set to release it’s new premium T5 product line which will undoubtedly raise the feature list for higher quality fixtures, industry wide. Upon release the Wave Point product line will include 4-bulb…
Red Sea Max 250 in the wild Part 4: the lighting
Well we would have loved to bring you more on the highly coveted RSM250 but when we returned to our LFS to take more pics and do another tour of the kit, the all in one set up had been…
GHL dimmable T5 pendant lighting coming 2009
GHL the makers of the profilux aquarium controller and GHL dossing pump has confirmed that they will be releaisng a new T5 pendant lighting system that will be “plug and play” and unlike most other T5’s they promise it will…
ReefGeek dimmable T5 retrokit with video demo
We had the good fortune to get a fairly thorough demonstration of Reefgeek’s prototype dimmable T5 retrofit kit. Fluorescent dimming has been around for a while but it was always quite a hassle to implement back in the VHO days.…
