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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.
  1. PUR vs PAR? What is more important when setting up your LED reef tank lighting? - BRStv Reef FAQs

    PUR vs PAR? What is more important when setting up your LED reef tank lighting? - BRStv Reef FAQs

    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...
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  2. PAR, Spectrum and everything in between, this is the Red Sea ReefLED - BRStv Investigates

    PAR, Spectrum and everything in between, this is the Red Sea ReefLED - BRStv Investigates

    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...
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  3. Reef Tank Lighting Schedule - What's The Ideal Spectrum For Your LED lights? | Reef FAQs

    Reef Tank Lighting Schedule - What's The Ideal Spectrum For Your LED lights? | Reef FAQs

    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...
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  4. T5 Reef Lighting - Why T5 continues to be popular with advanced reef tank owners - BRStv Reef FAQs

    T5 Reef Lighting - Why T5 continues to be popular with advanced reef tank owners - BRStv Reef FAQs

    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...
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  5. Randy's experiences and your Q&A of the Red Sea ReefLED - #AskBRStv Live

    Randy's experiences and your Q&A of the Red Sea ReefLED - #AskBRStv Live

    Randy recently got his hands on the Red Sea ReefLED 90 and gave it the full test for PAR and Spectrum. Today he takes your questions about this new LED light from Red Sea!   #AskBRStv...
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  6. PAR, spectrum and spread of the AI Prime Fuge HD for refugium lighting? - #AskBRStv

    PAR, spectrum and spread of the AI Prime Fuge HD for refugium lighting? - #AskBRStv

    This Ask BRStv question, “How does the Aqua Illumination Prime Fuge HD LED stack up?”, came to us from our sponsor forum Reef2Reef.com. We tested the PAR and Spectrum to see how this...
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  7. Show me how to program the Kessil Spectral Controller X? - #AskBRStv

    Show me how to program the Kessil Spectral Controller X? - #AskBRStv

    With the latest Kessil A360x there has been quite a few questions on how to program the Spectral Controller X. So today, Randy gives us a crash course into programming the controller quickly along...
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  8. Going well beyond the bullet points of the Kessil A360X LED. | BRStv Investigates

    Going well beyond the bullet points of the Kessil A360X LED. | BRStv Investigates

    You wanted more information about the Kessil A360X than what you can read off of the website and bullet points, today you've got it! In this episode Ryan gives a full break down of what we saw from...
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