关于紫外线在礁石坦克和珊瑚健康中的作用，尤其是在缺少它的LED照明设备的兴起的情况下，讨论了很多讨论。在珊瑚礁的古典时代，保持VHO和T5荧光灯和金属卤化灯，我们本地使用紫外线作为其整体光谱的一部分 - 没有任何磷光剂，所有荧光灯都是紫外线，因此它们适合在晒黑床和金属中使用。卤化灯实际上需要额外的屏蔽，以防止紫外线的有害波长燃烧我们的珊瑚和使我们的鱼蒙蔽。
But now that the hobby is all-in on LEDs, our multicolor LED light fixtures don’t have any ‘broandband’ ultraviolet light if it isn’t specifically added, and then the best reef lights only have a small dash of the weakest near UVA spectrum which hardly registers under measurement. After many years of deliberating the topic of UV we are coming to the conclusion that while corals don’t要求紫外线似乎有越来越多的证据表明，某些波长UV-B光可能具有有益的消毒效果，以防止或减少一些似乎是现代现象的不寻常的珊瑚疾病，与礁石坦克相吻合，与礁石坦克相吻合，与礁石坦克一致。只有LED。
While researching the potential benefit of certain wavelengths of LEDs for helping to manage the microbial community living on our corals we’ve looked towards our old school VHO lights as well as reptile lighting technology since reptiles需要UVB光线适当的合成维生素D3和bone development. A new company called Vivtech popped up in our research on a number of occasions for their newSursun LED灯泡并随附Sursun UVB读者为了验证所得的紫外线，到达鳞状宠物。
Curiously, while我们在寻找爬行动物行业以扩大我们的照明知识，我们遇到了一集中的动物录像带播客，他们讨论转向水族馆爱好以提高其技术能力。The segment starts off with come comparisons between reefing and reptiles but at around the one hour mark Vivtech goes deep into how their SurSun 3 watt UVA/UVB spotlights have the kind of ultraviolet light that we’ve never seen coming out of an LED powered light.
Vivtech is offering the SurSun UVA/UVB spotlight in three sizes but we’re naturally drawn to the most powerful mid-day blaze which includes one diode dedicated for UVA light, one daylight 6,500K white diode for general illumination, and a full three diodes dedicated to the rarified UVB spectrum which is of particular interest. We’re still not sure if the ‘cleansing effect’ of UVB light on corals is something that we once took for granted with our fluorescent and metal halide lighting, but the SurSun 3W UVA/UVB light looks like one of the best places to start testing the theory.
