Whats up guys, looks like i have missed quite a bit of convo here, glad everyone is setting up their rigs, and have success.
In the past 3 months that i have been using the BL LED's on my 210(72X24X27) I have so far had great success.
A lot of these Corals, went through a nasty little storm(lost power for 6days and ran on generator 8hrs on 4hrs off causing a lot of swings in temp(65 - 72*) about 2 months ago, and all bleached or lost ....
Clams Happy, SPS coloring up, Ecrusting, and showing new growth.
Was completely bleached, and had no encrusting
Was bleached as well
no idea what it is lol)
was bleached white, then turned brown, and now all new growth including encrusting is White/purple, and base green. (ORA Valida)
Bleached to Neon Green(Great recovery!):
Purple Monster, still recoverying, but was in fact, all bleached, i thought it was not going to make it:
Unfortunately my camera skills are no good, and this picture is under exposed.... the others were over exposed! lol i need to play around with exposure but just for reference the Monster, almost at the bottom of the tank, will eventually move it up to the top when it looks healthy enough.
Trust me when i say its a lot brighter than it looks.... and I have rigged the setup to take 2 60" T5s as well.... just for that "POP".... I am going to change out all the red led's over to blue(giving me 54RB and 6B(2 on each heatsink)) then use an Aquablue Special, or something similar for a little extra pop. Maybe try the new Coral bulb from ATI, as well as pickup some Blue+ just to play around with the color spectrum. I was going to add 4 60" T5's but really feel like it may be too much light and will start burning corals.
Another note is remember that the PAR meter does not read the Blue's very well and although you may see only 120 - 180 PAR at the sandbed but you actually have tons of light down there.... I will be borrowing a PAR meter, in the next few days and will determine if i am going to switch out to 80* optics or not.