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How to choose aquatic lighting: A test!

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Erik Zandboer| Leave a comment

I have heard a LOT of different stories on aquatic lighting types and plant growth. From horror stories on blue light boosting algae growth to people buying the most expensive “Amazone”-type fluorescent lighting tubes for horrifying prizes. I did not want to join into all of these made-up or heard-of “facts”, and I decided to do my own testing! In this blog I will post what I did, and most important… the outcome of my test.

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Tagged algae, algae growth, aquarium, aquarium led lighting, aquatic, aquatic plant lighting, fluorescent lighting, halogen lighting, light spectrum, lighting, Luxeon, Luxeon LED, paludarium lighting, plant lighting, spectrum

Lighting of the Paludarium 2.0

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Erik Zandboer| 1 Comment

Paludarium 2.0 is going to utilize the same lighting system as the current (1.0) version. Because I am often asked about this technology, I decided to translate my original post (see Verlichting van het paludarium (in Dutch) and post it here.

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Tagged aquarium led lighting, cree LED, halogen lighting, led, led lighting, lighting, Luxeon, Luxeon LED, paludarium, paludarium lighting, SuperLED