Curious aboutEcotech radion and lps color fading

[Rocklgnd2b]

I've heard some LEDs begin to fade acans and other cool lps. I have one tank with a kessil a350 and haven't noticed this problem yet. My other system I just bought has Hamilton MH/T5 combo, and I'm not sure I like the coloration of it. I had bought a radion before I bought this tank and am considering either trading, selling, or pulling the MH out of the fixture and putting one radion inside the fixture to be supplemented by the T5's.
Before any of that I wanted to hear results of your experiences with radions.
My tank is 82g leemar 36/24/22 and I love rainbow acans and ultra zoas

 

[discocarp]

I have 3 radion(g1+tir) over a 109g mostly LPS tank. My colors are great with the exception of acans. They're my achilles heal though. I've never been able to get good acan colors under led, t5s, or halides - so I don't blame the lights. They're healthy and growing, just bland. Tank is about to hit the 1 year mark (although a lot of the LPS are much older and have been with me a long time). Picture is a little old.

 

[Rocklgnd2b]

Any other peoples experiences?

 

[ClownNut]

i keep all my aussie lps under radion. they color up nicely and growing just fine.

 

[Rocklgnd2b]

Thanks

 

[dan10342]

I've heard some LEDs begin to fade acans and other cool lps. I have one tank with a kessil a350 and haven't noticed this problem yet. My other system I just bought has Hamilton MH/T5 combo, and I'm not sure I like the coloration of it. I had bought a radion before I bought this tank and am considering either trading, selling, or pulling the MH out of the fixture and putting one radion inside the fixture to be supplemented by the T5's.
Before any of that I wanted to hear results of your experiences with radions.
My tank is 82g leemar 36/24/22 and I love rainbow acans and ultra zoas

could you provide a graph of your Radion's program?

 

[Rocklgnd2b]

It's still in the box, I have t even used it yet, not sure where you're going with the graph thing?

 

[liven learn]

My aussies are doing amazing. Usually they lose color because of too much lighting. I have my blues at 100% and my whites at 50% now. Everything does much better this way. I had the whites higher but all my softies did not look near as well as they do now. I would say the problem is that people have their leds too high. Its hard to see by the eye but leds are very intense. I have maxspect razors btw, and the scans came from a tank with radions but they look better in my tank now because they were getting too much light. More light less zooxanthellae, less light more zooxanthellae but the happy medium is the key because they can get too much and stressed out.

 

[Art13]

Not that its the same light but i have a photon 48 reef breeder over my tank about 12 inches with 90 optics and my acan in the sand bed as well as all my other lps look great, i'm still slowly ramping up to the final setting but i'm at 40% blue and about 25% white right now. tank is 24 or so inches deep. Also, after about 3 weeks the acan has about 5 new heads coming off.

 

[dan10342]

It's still in the box, I have t even used it yet, not sure where you're going with the graph thing?

Sorry misread your post. LPS will do fine under Radions. Just don't overdo the intensity or they will respond quite poorly

 

[Bpawl]

Mine haven't faded colors since I upgraded to a radion 6 months ago. But I did have a nice long acclimation period.

 

[chrisfont23]

Not that its the same light but i have a photon 48 reef breeder over my tank about 12 inches with 90 optics and my acan in the sand bed as well as all my other lps look great, i'm still slowly ramping up to the final setting but i'm at 40% blue and about 25% white right now. tank is 24 or so inches deep. Also, after about 3 weeks the acan has about 5 new heads coming off.

I know this is an old post, but if it helps Art I haven't gone much more than that with my Photon 48 on my 90g. I peak at 65/35 for two hours. Anything more is too much for my LPS dominant reef.