I am down sizing tanks and looking at setting up a Waterbox 100.3 which is 36x24x22. It will be a bare bottom tank and mostly acros with the bottom covered in chalices and other encrusting corals. I am looking to minimize power consumption and want to try and light the tank with around 200 watts. I am contemplating either the orphek atlantik v4 which at max runs 211w, or two radion XR15W G4 pro's with the defusers on them which would put me at about 180watts max.
In theory they are both rated to cover a 48" tank and mine is 36" so I feel both would work for my needs, but am kind of leaning towards the radions just due to being able to adjust the spread between them. The advantage I see with the atlantik is that it has more led's(78 vs 46 on the two radions) but considering its running 78 leds at only 211 watts I feel like they would be really under driven, its also a single fixture so just once cord and mount needs. Another concern is once the colonies started getting dense it would suffer more shadowing.
In theory they are both rated to cover a 48" tank and mine is 36" so I feel both would work for my needs, but am kind of leaning towards the radions just due to being able to adjust the spread between them. The advantage I see with the atlantik is that it has more led's(78 vs 46 on the two radions) but considering its running 78 leds at only 211 watts I feel like they would be really under driven, its also a single fixture so just once cord and mount needs. Another concern is once the colonies started getting dense it would suffer more shadowing.
