Cairns Marine is well known as one of the most prolific sources of shallow water Acropora from Australia and the Great Barrier Reef. For five years now Cairns Marine has been using the robust light fixtures from Illumagic to light all of their coral holding systems, with particular emphasis on their shallow water Acroporas.
新型号的LED照明灯s like the Style and Blaze X series from Illumagic, Cairns Marine wanted to determine how these compared to the original Blaze LEDs they’d come to rely on. The overall spectrum hasn’t fundamentally changed between all these light fixtures, with the Blaze X and Style actually using the same LED clusters, just in different arrangements and accompanying feature sets.
To evaluate the performance of the Illumagic fixtures Cairns Marine designed three test tanks, each with a different lighting setup. Twelve different colonies of different iconic Australian Acropora were split into three large pieces and placed in each of the test tanks. The PAR averaged around 230 umols for two of the tanks and a little bit brighter for the Styles with an average PAR of 350 umols.
特别注意息肉扩展,着色和生长,并开发了一个特殊的珊瑚“舞台”,以相同的方式拍摄珊瑚,并具有相同的光线和相机设置,以每周记录珊瑚。在六周的持续时间内,凯恩斯海军陆战队(Cairns Marine)确定了光亮的大火,加入配合和风格的LED都使珊瑚保持良好的健康和外观。
Is this the be-all end-all test to prove these lights are the best ever? Of course it isn’t. But what’s super cool about this lighting trial is that Cairns Marine designed a practical, short term experiment which clearly documented the effectiveness of the Illumagic Lights they use for their commercial coral lighting application.
Full details of the Cairns Marine-Illumagic light trial arecompiled into a PDFwith images of all the corals for each week. If you’ve got a particularly large coral holding system, coral farm, or just a very large tank, you’ll definitely want to review this document to see if your lighting requirements overlap with Cairns Marine’s findings. [PDF]