Sb Reef Lights

What are we all about? SB Reef Lights, now residing in Pensacola, Fl are avid fish hobbyist since the mid 1980s. Saltwater fish keepers since the early 1990s and serious reef keepers since the mid 1990s. They remember seeing their first 6500K metal halide and thinking it was so blue compared to their 5700K. And when the first 10,000K halide bulb came out, well it was pure witchcraft. They have had success growing and fragging corals under metal halide, VHO, T5 and combos of the 3. Having reef tanks from 5 gallon Pico tanks, 10 to 20 gallon Nanos all the way up to 560g mega reefs. The SB Reef Lights were developed on a 560g reef over 18 months. They are now proven at the largest public aquariums in the world like the SHEDD in Chicago, Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta and even the Singapore Zoo! So what does the SB in SB Reef Lights stand for? There is a history to the name. When we first started using BlackBoxes, no one believed they could grow or even sustain coral. We had left a MH/T5 combo due to the high cost of electricity, re-bulbing every 9 months and running a chiller. Of course the die hard Metal Halide fans down played LED in general. The Trendy High End LED fanboys said the Black Boxes were crappy lights and even claimed they would catch my house on fire! Still I figured they were worth a try. The physics involved told me the lights made enough PAR in the right spectrum to keep coral alive. I figured they may not be great but they might be good enough. I didnt expect them to be as nice as a Radian or Hydra 52. So as I started posting decent results, folks would ask which lights I was using. Jokingly I would say my Sh*t Boxes as a jab to the trendy high end LED fanboys that said they were crappy. The name stuck after that. 18 months later is as widely used in the hobby as Black Box to denote the 16×8 55 LED Full Spectrum units. Now its a badge of honor we now wear with pride. Saying Sh*t Box is like giving a big wet raspberry to the Radian,