Anybody with SPS running Reefbreeders fixture?
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kissman
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Oh my. Can you share some information about your current setup and any special husbandry (frequency and size of water changes in particular). I just found an old 55g thread but none for this tank.
Sorry Kissman for the hijack!
No problem on the hijack! This forum is for us all to learn stuff. I am not like some people and get all upset about a hijack. I love reading the threads new and old and see different ways people run tanks. Hell I have been through 493 threads on Reefbreeders in the last few days!
kissman
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I just broke down this tank, it had (2) reefbreeders photon 16"
& a 24" ocean revive 2060 .
damn at the colors!
kissman
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I just broke down this tank, it had (2) reefbreeders photon 16"
& a 24" ocean revive 2060 .
Damn nice tank! What intensity were you running them whites/blues?
I just got mine set on the tank this evening. Wow it looks great! Set the whites at 25% and Blues at 30% will ramp up 10% each week
tripdad
Frustrated Stick Gardener
Was at Adam's on Saturday, he has 4 tanks under reefbreeder photons. The colors on the prop tank and his back-up tank were stunning across the spectrum. Pinks popped, blues were blue, etc. He seems happy with this light but perhaps ask him via an e-mail. He's pretty available with info.
Yup.
kissman
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Only been a few days but so far i love this light! Started it at whites 25 and Blues 30. Seems like it will take forever to get to my ball park max of whites 40 blues 80 seems like a lot of people run about this. So i will shoot for that and see how my tank does. But 10 weeks. Hmmm
kissman
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How long have you had it? Any pics?
Peter Eichler
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When I was there he had good things to say about it and was happy with the results he'd had over the one tank in the back corner. Did he have them on any of the runway type tanks in the middle of the room yet?
Big E
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He also said the same thing about the Radions on his display .............he sold them (went back to halides) and the Custom unit Reef Led light made for him that seems to have disappeared too.
Point being, I think he's just experimenting and is a nice guy that isn't going to say anything bad publically.
tripdad
Frustrated Stick Gardener
Not over the three raceways in the center of the room, but on the raceway/growout tank on the ledge, the back-up tank, the frag holding tank and one other small one. The stuff in the tank on the ledge re-minded me of a zeo tank. The colors were just very pure and bright.Growth was reasonable, but he kept showing me the same coral in one of the three main raceways and then a clone in the ledge tank and the difference is noticeable. At first i thought he was trying to sell me lighting as he just could not say enough good things about them.
BigE... you are correct, all radions gone.thereeferr
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Kissman, when you add new sps you don't dim down the lights as the other corals will suffer. Just start the new coral in a lower location, then slowly move it up into the tank where you want it. I'm not running the reefbreeders, my fixtures are similar though. I'm running 3 on a 125g display with 120 degree lenses, white channel running 55% and blue channel running 100%. Coral growth and color is great, I'll have to get to my phone to post some pics for you.
rtbm
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its true my entire back up system a 4x4 frag tank and QT are now lit with RB's.
stuff look amazing under them and better than some of their counterparts in the main even. i still cant really believe what i am seeing sometimes but the results are undeniable. Rb's a great light.
the reefled fixture that Bill made me crashed and burned and all the radions are long gone. no comparison performance wise to the RB's. Definitely not just being nice or shilling for logan here. LOL Not experimenting anymore either i am completely sold! I believe it's the warm/neutrals. I actually bought 2 24" photons for my display to replace the radions but ended up needing them over the prop system in a pinch. Thats why i threw the halide back over the display
the radions had to go either way. everything I have under RB's look incredible. If they made wider fixtures i'd already have replaced the t5s over my main i am just struggling on how to adequately light them with the standard fixtures. including QT, I am running 9 total
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Big E
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Thanks for the your honest opinions Adam.
The Reefbreeders are one of the few units that has what I consider the correct ratio of blues to white...........around 3 blue/violet to 1 white. I agree the neutrals whites perform better with that ratio also.
I like they have more violets than most fixtures also, but would prefer if they had there own control separately.
The other point I would make is that you have to have enough units to completely cover the tank, they'll perform better......... similar to T5s coverage.
The Reefbreeders are one of the few units that has what I consider the correct ratio of blues to white...........around 3 blue/violet to 1 white. I agree the neutrals whites perform better with that ratio also.
I like they have more violets than most fixtures also, but would prefer if they had there own control separately.
The other point I would make is that you have to have enough units to completely cover the tank, they'll perform better......... similar to T5s coverage.
bdsage
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can you give us a rundown of your photoperiod both channels also distance from water and optics? please and thank youits true my entire back up system a 4x4 frag tank and QT are now lit with RB's.
stuff look amazing under them and better than some of their counterparts in the main even. i still cant really believe what i am seeing sometimes but the results are undeniable. Rb's a great light.
the reefled fixture that Bill made me crashed and burned and all the radions are long gone. no comparison performance wise to the RB's. Definitely not just being nice or shilling for logan here. LOL Not experimenting anymore either i am completely sold! I believe it's the warm/neutrals. I actually bought 2 24" photons for my display to replace the radions but ended up needing them over the prop system in a pinch. Thats why i threw the halide back over the display
everything I have under RB's look incredible. If they made wider fixtures i'd already have replaced the t5s over my main i am just struggling on how to adequately light them with the standard fixtures. including QT, I am running 9 total
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rtbm
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I run them all at 100% with about 8 hours of peak. 12-14 total on soft slow ramp and down. mounted about 20" off the water
everything in these packs but the big purple tort in pic 2 was grown under RB's Not trying sell anything here at all just showing off some sps grown exclusively with the standard photon fixture
everything in these packs but the big purple tort in pic 2 was grown under RB's Not trying sell anything here at all just showing off some sps grown exclusively with the standard photon fixture
rtbm
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i like to run them high and at full power so i get more spread. If i couldn't get them at least 15" up id probably dial them down to 80 at least
if things really lighten up on you then by all means cut them back a little.
