Radion growth/color results?

[reeferman]

grouper therapy;901402 wrote: [/B]
I'm right there with you on that my brother, I guess you and I will just build it and let others photograph it :thumbs:.

i prefer that route anyway.i like looking at pictures lol,taking them...not so much.

Darren,i also noticed my rainbow acans turned red.just before my copperband ate them all

 

[grouper therapy]

Darren24;901407 wrote: Sorry I know you asked for Radion results but were not sure if you wanted "LED" results for other brands. Skip over it and I apologize if this is not what you wanted. I have an AI SOL Blue that is about 10-12 months old. The color has been "good" but my sps lost most of its color (they all turned blue) and my nice rainbow acans turned red or orange. I just received the ATI LED / T5 combo (I sold a kidney) and can not wait to get it going. Also growth under the AI SOL was marginal except for chalices. They seemed to like it...

No worries, Darren I appreciate your input very much. I considered the ATI combo but I could not spare the kidney lol. I think that is the fixture MVM is running as well. Can't wait to see your results.

 

[reefstinger]

reeferman;901362 wrote: i guess it was a different led thread that i posted pics.these are from an iphone with no rendering,anyways....

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OMG this tank is AWESOME!!

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reeferman;901304 wrote: i like to think i have been successful with my leds for over 2 years over my mature sps reef

PLUS 1
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Edit: DAVE!! you opened a Can of worms in this thread!! opinions are as reeferman says, a@O$#% everybody has one!! LMAO

 

[guerry]

Hi David , I haven't posted on this site since the last thread I started awhile back basicly asking if other long term leds users were seeing the loss of color in there SPS coral as I was. It seems all I got was blasted by a bunch of led users who really didn't know the diffence or could see it . What I can tell you from my experence is Leds can produce good colors but none of the store bought models that I have seen. My current light is four 80watt T5s and a 144 3watt led emitters, I have a mix of 405nm, 430nm, 450nm, 460nm, 475nm, 495nm, 530nm, 660nm and coolwhites T5 bulbs are ATI super antic, blue+ and coral pros. The t5s have really helped with larger corals which all had white under branching from light starvation IMO as I don't feel the under side of corals where getting reflective lighting that MH and T5s produce. If some one was just starting a new system and ask me what my opion was on best lighting for sps I would say for a store bought fixture to go with T5s and for DIY to build a full spectum led, T5 mix

my piece of the reef thanks Guerry

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[reeferman]

beautiful reef.diy is definitely the way to go

 

[grouper therapy]

Guerry;901904 wrote: Hi David , I haven't posted on this site since the last thread I started awhile back basicly asking if other long term leds users were seeing the loss of color in there SPS coral as I was. It seems all I got was blasted by a bunch of led users who really didn't know the diffence or could see it . What I can tell you from my experence is Leds can produce good colors but none of the store bought models that I have seen. My current light is four 80watt T5s and a 144 3watt led emitters, I have a mix of 405nm, 430nm, 450nm, 460nm, 475nm, 495nm, 530nm, 660nm and coolwhites T5 bulbs are ATI super antic, blue+ and coral pros. The t5s have really helped with larger corals which all had white under branching from light starvation IMO as I don't feel the under side of corals where getting reflective lighting that MH and T5s produce. If some one was just starting a new system and ask me what my opion was on best lighting for sps I would say for a store bought fixture to go with T5s and for DIY to build a full spectum led, T5 mix

my piece of the reef thanks Guerry

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Looks good man nice big colonies. How long have the t5s been a part ot the lighting?

 

[guerry]

thanks, the T5s where added about 2 months ago and I've seen an a major diffence already

 

[grouper therapy]

Good deal. Keep us updated with some pics in the coming months please. Yea if you get bored just start a thread about College football,Vortecs, Leds or sponnsorship and then set back and enjoy the ride. LOL!