47G SPS...Revamp

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This has made me laugh. Good sense of humour....

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Hello sahin ...

Hope you Christmas was good with lot of gifts to you aquarium.

I run my Radions from APEX so I don't have the etg file ... I can send you my graph from apex if you want.

How are the two surprises you have in your tank? Mine came out completely brown and now has amazing blue tips ...

All the best,
Rui

Hello Rui,

I got myself Ecotech gear for Xmas: MP40WES, MP10WES, Reeflink and 3 Radion Pro's. I spent too much on those to be able to afford an Apex...Apex may come next year IF the relationship between Neptune and Ecotech doesnt fall apart...

The two acros are doing fine. The Echinata has recovered all the AEFW bitemarks. It turned brown in the QT tank but since going in my display, the brown has largely disappeared and its blue/white mostly.

I know the display is like 400 gallons , and has just 10 Radion gen3 pros:lol: hanging about 20" above waterline. I know they dose two part and I never looked at sump. Last time I was there was the day after Thanksgiving you could hardly get in the store. Alex is a busy guy plus he is setting up a 300 at his house now. Don't give up on him ! I will be down that way soon I will get filtration and maybe the top secret lighting info.

Yup, he must be very busy especially at this time. Look forward to more info though. :)
 
I might not be so quick to snuff the Radions. Has anyone taken a look at TankMaster's thread? He has some serious growth and coloration from his SPS. You really have to see it to believe it.
 
I might not be so quick to snuff the Radions. Has anyone taken a look at TankMaster's thread? He has some serious growth and coloration from his SPS. You really have to see it to believe it.

I think we're all just poking fun but I'm sure we all want to see Sahin succeed.
 
I wish he'd hurry up and succeed... I want pics of the new stuff humming along....
What's taking so long?? He got all the equipment like days ago....
Slacker, Sahin........
 
I wish he'd hurry up and succeed... I want pics of the new stuff humming along....
What's taking so long?? He got all the equipment like days ago....
Slacker, Sahin........

Remember he is a super secret agent and his camera is being held by the government. I think he has pictures of the plans for the Death Star on it or something:strooper:
 
You guys leave my mate Sahin alone, he'll post some pics when he's good and ready. If he wants to be a secret agent then i think we should all just go along with it Matt, crazy as a loon but he's great at keeping SPS so putting up with all the lies is a small price to pay :beer:

Sahin.........

James Sahin...........
 
I might not be so quick to snuff the Radions. Has anyone taken a look at TankMaster's thread? He has some serious growth and coloration from his SPS. You really have to see it to believe it.
Hung has very nice colouration under Radions; though I already asked on his thread and he said T5's have the edge in terms of colouration. However the systems are all separate.

I think we're all just poking fun but I'm sure we all want to see Sahin succeed.
I love T5's. However, my true love is MH's. LED's in theory should work...I've seen the spectral measurements by Sanjay Joshi on the first Gen Radions...the spectrum is fine aside from 400nm and shorter wavelengths. The Radion Pros do have decent output in the violet end of the spectrum which was lacking in the 1st Gen Radions when Sanjay did the measurements.

That leaves two issues:

1. How the light is delivered; ie the issue of lenses and coverage
2. Channel setup

1 and 2 are what I am sorting out at the moment and as soon as I am happy with a program the lights will go over the tank.

I have ordered custom cut Aluminium square tubes; they will be anodised in black to match the Radions.

I will do some PAR measurements and mess around with spacing between the Radions to ensure the PAR is distributed evenly over the tank.

QUOTE=reefmutt;24217298]I wish he'd hurry up and succeed... I want pics of the new stuff humming along....
What's taking so long?? He got all the equipment like days ago....
Slacker, Sahin........[/QUOTE]

LOL. Matt see my post above. This is a significant change. The PacificSun Hybrid unit did VERY well for me. A change to 100% LED's needs to be made properly...I dont want the experiment to fail because I messed up with the Radion spacing above the tank or the light schedule has been setup wrong.

I'm at home all this week so I've been measuring the PAR levels through the day; every hour. I will more of less replicate this on the Radions.

I also need to drill the ceiling; its bloody concrete so drilling for the Radion hanging kit wont be easy.

So far I have the Reeflink and Vortechs setup to be controlled wirelessly. I've connected the Reeflink via LAN into my router.

Remember he is a super secret agent and his camera is being held by the government. I think he has pictures of the plans for the Death Star on it or something:strooper:

:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

I emailed and asked for my stuff back and a replacement memory card before Xmas...they didnt even reply...:furious:

You guys leave my mate Sahin alone, he'll post some pics when he's good and ready. If he wants to be a secret agent then i think we should all just go along with it Matt, crazy as a loon but he's great at keeping SPS so putting up with all the lies is a small price to pay :beer:

Sahin.........

James Sahin...........

:D

Couple more weeks and I should have my camera back and Radions will be over the tank hopefully. :)
 
and Radions will be over the tank hopefully. :)

Joining the dark side. Sorry to hear Sahin. ;) Almost all of my clients use LEDs, and as such, I won't use them over my tank. :lolspin: A few of them do quite well, but in most cases, I think they are lacking. The Radions are definitely one of the better ones. The AI Hydras are ok too. I'm not a fan of Mitras.
 
Just one thing about the par numbers buddy (I'm sure you know this already but just in case) start way lower than what you were probably getting with t5... You can always go up from there. In my tank I measured par under my radions a while ago and I was at only around 250 a couple inches under surface of water. Now maybe I don't have the best color out there and I did put them on a 6 week aclimation to raise up 10% more but I believe if I had tried to match the around 450 par I assume you are getting up high under t5 I would have bleached a lot of coral by now
 
Also, when you match PAR, move the meter around under the LEDs because you'll get lots of hot spots.
 
Joining the dark side. Sorry to hear Sahin. ;) Almost all of my clients use LEDs, and as such, I won't use them over my tank. :lolspin: A few of them do quite well, but in most cases, I think they are lacking. The Radions are definitely one of the better ones. The AI Hydras are ok too. I'm not a fan of Mitras.

Thanks for the input. I've not seen a single good result under Mitras...I've always said on the forums that Radions and Hydras were good enough; I've seen very good results in friends tanks to make me want to at least try.

Just one thing about the par numbers buddy (I'm sure you know this already but just in case) start way lower than what you were probably getting with t5... You can always go up from there. In my tank I measured par under my radions a while ago and I was at only around 250 a couple inches under surface of water. Now maybe I don't have the best color out there and I did put them on a 6 week aclimation to raise up 10% more but I believe if I had tried to match the around 450 par I assume you are getting up high under t5 I would have bleached a lot of coral by now

Also, when you match PAR, move the meter around under the LEDs because you'll get lots of hot spots.

Will do buddy.

As for the hotspots; there really isnt much of hotspots; I've rigged up a frame and spaced the Radions apart as I will have them over the tank; I measured the PAR and couldnt measure any real hotspots. The overlapping light effectively cuts out the hotspots. I will be hanging the lights at least 12-14inches above the waterline.

Just waiting on a few parts to arrive to make my light bracket.
 
As for the hotspots; there really isnt much of hotspots; I've rigged up a frame and spaced the Radions apart as I will have them over the tank; I measured the PAR and couldnt measure any real hotspots. The overlapping light effectively cuts out the hotspots. I will be hanging the lights at least 12-14inches above the waterline.

Just waiting on a few parts to arrive to make my light bracket.

I think Radions with T5s front and back could be a really nice combo. ;) Pure LED though? Oh Sahin.... :p

I haven't checked PAR under Radions myself, so that's good to hear. I've checked under some strip LEDs (and poorly spaced Mitras) and you could see where every single LED was in the PAR graph. It's like 150 PAR here, and 2" over it's 350 PAR. How do you grow stuff under that? :uhoh3: I'm certainly curious to watch your transition!

Oh, and we need some updates on that other site where I swindled you into posting a tank journal. :D
 
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Can't wait to see the lights mounted. Considering how you usually
do things, it should be great
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Thanks. I hope this goes well...or else Biggles and co will laugh at me all the way to next xmas! :lol:

Hi Sahin,

Keep us update !

Best Regards and I wish an epic 2016 for all of us !!!!

Hello Denadai! When are you restarting a tank? I know you've run all the different lighting technologies and have had success with all...

I really wish you'd be back with that Hydra lit sps tank.

Best wishes for 2016 my friend :beer:

Hi Sahin,

Wish you have a successful LED experiment with plentiful of healthy and colorful sticks in 2016!!!

Thanks Bernie. I dream of colourful sticks everyday...daydream that is :lol:

I think Radions with T5s front and back could be a really nice combo. ;) Pure LED though? Oh Sahin....

I haven't checked PAR under Radions myself, so that's good to hear. I've checked under some strip LEDs (and poorly spaced Mitras) and you could see where every single LED was in the PAR graph. It's like 150 PAR here, and 2" over it's 350 PAR. How do you grow stuff under that? :uhoh3: I'm certainly curious to watch your transition!

Oh, and we need some updates on that other site where I swindled you into posting a tank journal. :D

I'll be sure to update the thread on the other site soon.

Maybe a T5/Radion combo on my next tank. This time round though, I really want to see what the Radions can do by themselves. :)

Its only 7 hours till 2016; best wishes to you all!!! :beer: :beer: :beer:
 
Carrying on from the hotspot thing..... I don't have them under mine. If you space them well, have them higher over the tank, and on my tank I use the wide angle lenses I didn't notice any obvious hot spots. Are you planning on using wide angle lenses?
 
I've always mentally toyed with the idea of adding 6 kessil over my tank.... it's the $3,000 US dollars that keep me content with my $400 used Giesemann Spectra :)
 
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