Snook Lights : Buy Aqueon Coralife 05620 Aqualight T5 Freshwater ...
This fixture comes in several sizes, but my experience is limited to the 48 inch unit, specifically, the Coralife Aqualight 48 inch T5 2 x 28W freshwater fixture. I ordered the 48 inch light even after reading the reviews thinking some good some bad. Coralife claims that the failure rate of these units is less than 5%, but I don’t know what time frame they’re talking about, because all sixteen units I tried lasted only about one year. When you buy anew one they send you crap and when you want a new one they are in no hurry to send it for free…. The warranty replacements lasted longer, but just barely so, as all eight of them were dead within 12-14 months, that is, just out of warranty. I have since replaced all of the Coralife fixtures with the far superior and only slightly more expensive Nova Extreme units from Current USA. I bought eight of these units for my fish room in late 2006, and every single one of them failed within 9-12 months- they simply would no longer fire. After long and sometimes unpleasant correspondence with the manufacturer, all eight fixtures were replaced under warranty. Do not buy the Coralife fixtures unless you are prepared to consider them disposable. This fixture is complete and utter junk.