With conventional old style reflectors, we as hobbyists have had to mount our metal halide reflector 8-12″ from the water surface resulting in excessive heat, salt encrusted reflectors, less room to work in our canopies and increased water evaporation.

We at Ottawa Inverts are very proud to now carry the solution to these problems, the Coral Vue Lumen Bright reflectors!

How can the Lumen Bright reflectors solve these problems?  By raising them up!

The Lumen Bright reflectors are specifically designed to focus all of your tanks lighting down and into your tank as opposed to allowing the light to spill out and across the room.

In fact, these reflectors are so well designed for the purpose that it is highly recommended to mount the Lumen Bright reflectors to the specs below otherwise the incredibly high PAR values that these reflectors are directing toward your tank could in fact be too high and result in damage to your corals.

By raising your lighting up you also will be reducing if not eliminating the heating issues associated with metal halide lighting running in enclosed canopies. Higher lighting also means that your reflectors are out of harms way from pitting due to salt spray.

Traditional style reflectors are not designed to penetrate the light deep into your tank where as the Lumen Bright reflectors design allows them to deliver a greater amount of light to the corals deeper within your tank.

Now you may ask yourself the question “I have a wider tank, will this reflector be too concentrated in downwards direction for me?”  If your tank is under 24″ wide, the answer is NO – and here are some figures to prove it taken from “Lumen Bright Reflectors” by Jim Memije in Reef Keeping Magazine Online.

This is a comparison of the large Lumen Arc 3 reflectors and the large Lumen Bright reflectors on the same ballast, using the same bulb, and measuring outwards and downwards from the bulbs.

As you can see, the Lumen Bright reflectors are producing over 100% higher Par below the bulb and 3″ under the water surface and are still producing 25% higher par 24″ out from the bulb and 3″ below the water surface.

So to sum it up the Lumen Bright reflectors give you:

• Less heat,
• Less evaporation,
• More space to get into your tank as the reflector is placed higher above your tank, and
• Most importantly MORE LIGHT!!

If you would like to read the complete Reefkeeping Online article by Jim Memije, which contains a wealth of details about these reflectors and how very impressive they are, Click Here.

You can visit the Lumen Bright page on our web-site Here.

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