The B5HO LED tubes from Biotek Marine are the newest retrofit tubes designed to replace T5 fluorescent lamps in the aquarium hobby. The Biotek Marine B5HO name doesn’t score any points for originality, and will probably cause some confusion with the tubes that paved the way, the E5HO tubes from Euroquatics.
但是e5ho的一个特征is原件似乎是它们在可调光固定装置中使用的适用性,因为它们被专门推广为可调光,用于使用标准和可调节型镇流器用于固定装置。Biotek Marine提供的B5HO提供了多种颜色和尺寸,与今年大部分时间在市场上销售的E5HO灯非常可比。
Biotek Marine E5HO tubes are available in three shades of white, a 6,500K, 10,000K and 15,000K color temperature, and three shades of blue – an all blue, a blue with UV accents or a blue with red accents. There’s also a white & pink combination with half 10,000K whites and half pink LEDs, and a red-white-blue combination lamp.
The prices for the Biotek Marine B5HO tubes are comparable to the Euroquatics E5 as well, starting at $55 for a 24 inch replacement and up to $90 for the full five foot long replacement tube. Interestingly, while the new B5HO lamps appear to be on par with the first gen E5 LED tubes, Euroquatics will phase these out soon in favor of the new andimproved E5X lampswith greater power, improved heatsink and especially that optical lens which rely less on secondary reflectors for efficient light collimation.
LED replacement tubes for T5 fixtures are way overdue in the aquarium hobby, can you imagine if we had these back in 2010 or 2011? The lighting landscape would be much more different than it is now, and perhaps 2017 will be the year that we really see these gain favor with aquarists hoping for the best of both worlds, replaceable T5 + LED in one fixture. [Aq. Specialty]