E5's has abybody tried these?

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I was curious about those myself. I love my leds but feel like I should be supplementing with t5. I'm tagging along
 
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Those are very nice, make way I see a new standard coming soon... I'm sure ecotech and the big names will jump on board with somthing similar.
 

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I was going to pull the trigger and try a set to replace my actinic bulbs but for some reason MarineDepot no longer has them listed on their site. If you try them let us know how it goes and where you ordered them from. I think BlueRocket was doing a group buy but that may have passed
 
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I was going to pull the trigger and try a set to replace my actinic bulbs but for some reason MarineDepot no longer has them listed on their site. If you try them let us know how it goes and where you ordered them from. I think BlueRocket was doing a group buy but that may have passed
You can get them on Aquarium Specialty.
 

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I was going to pull the trigger and try a set to replace my actinic bulbs but for some reason MarineDepot no longer has them listed on their site. If you try them let us know how it goes and where you ordered them from. I think BlueRocket was doing a group buy but that may have passed
Does it make you wonder why MD dropped the line?
 

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Does it make you wonder why MD dropped the line?
Oh for sure. They were out of stock for a while then just gone completley. There were only a few reviews on MD but I remember them being on the positive end. Maybe just bad sales, who knows?

I'd like to see some more reviews, specifically on sps before I buy a pair.
 
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The last I saw the next wave is in production. The first wave was a feeler to see if the market would so a return, but they are being made
 
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[MENTION=4194]BluRocket3[/MENTION] ordered some. Ask Kyle what he thinks of them.

They appear to give off light in a uniform and dispersed fashion like T5's. I don't know how much shimmer you'll get from these since they're lower powered LEDs.
 
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[MENTION=4194]BluRocket3[/MENTION] ordered some. Ask Kyle what he thinks of them.

They appear to give off light in a uniform and dispersed fashion like T5's. I don't know how much shimmer you'll get from these since they're lower powered LEDs.
No shimmer, but the color is really nice on the Blue Pop. Gives you the same pop in color of your corals as reef brites or similarly colored leds do.
 
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i want the pink bulb prototype they made... @bvsochin and I were drooling over that thing... LOL...



i use mine to grow bounce mushrooms in my 500 gallon cube...
 

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I thought I read somewhere that they lost a lot of par quickly. I guess I'm a rumor monger because I don't remember where I saw that. And it may not just be par that it reduced but growth of coral. I think it was on rc by one of the sps guys on an sps thread.
 
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