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Can LED bulbs already provide a light quality comparable with the light of the sun?

LEDs are used to grow many varieties of coral, with a lot of success. The article below talks about many of the factors you have to consider when emulating sunlight.

https://orphek.com/led-light-chose-aquarium/

Depends on what you mean by comparable. LEDs (and CFLs) aren't blackbody radiators. It's possible with many fine tuned LEDs you can get a spectral power distribution approximate to that of the sun, but... for now it's expensive. And difficult to make consistent.

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