For all you LED haters out there check this out...

[canar]

IPAD pictures!

This is not a changeover from halide with color I am trying to maintain. A good portion of the coral you see was grown from frags. Frags I bought with the money I saved from not running over 4000W of halides for 10 hours a day. I have not had halides running with SPS for years now. How are my frags doing halide lovers?

Oh and BTW I should probably sell my 1HP chiller too. Its been off for a loooong time.

 

[bartek101]

Very nice.

 

[akitareefer]

And what fixture are you using?

 

[canar]

I built my LED's using parts I bought from a local LED shop. All my drivers are under the stand and I used Cat6 Ethernet cable to run the power to the heat sinks with the LED's. My tank is too big to have a "fixture". The other nice part about the LED's is I can get a heat sink just the right size to cover the area that needs light. Then play with the angle of the lenses to get the perfect affect. When I had halides I had a lot of areas that were in the shade. The LED's corrected that.

 

[ptr13]

very nice canar, your reef has really grown.

 

[mtcoins123]

It's incredible that you're doing so well very admirable oh really you don't have to hate me so much for loving my halides :lol:

 

[canar]

I had halides for a really long time. Im really not hating on halide people. Just defending LEDs.

 

[Daimyo68]

Curious what color combo your using. I can see a slight blue hue, but its not overwhelming to the point of bla!

Looks great!

 

[fitterdude]

What local LED shop did you get the parts from?

 

[canar]

Curious what color combo your using. I can see a slight blue hue, but its not overwhelming to the point of bla!

Looks great!

The majority of the blue I used was the Cree XT-E Royal blue. About 25% of all the blue does have 465-475nm XPE LED's. Then for the white 90% of the white is 7.5K Cree XPG. The other 10% of the white is XT-E 5-6K for a high noon effect. The optics are all Carclo. The optic angle depended on the application. If your really interested let me know and I can post come pictures from under my canopy.

I bought all the parts from reef led lights dot com. I got the heat sinks from heatsink usa dot com.

 

[Daimyo68]

The majority of the blue I used was the Cree XT-E Royal blue. About 25% of all the blue does have 465-475nm XPE LED's. Then for the white 90% of the white is 7.5K Cree XPG. The other 10% of the white is XT-E 5-6K for a high noon effect. The optics are all Carclo. The optic angle depended on the application. If your really interested let me know and I can post come pictures from under my canopy.

I bought all the parts from reef led lights dot com. I got the heat sinks from heatsink usa dot com.

Your using 2 different whites, which is what I am about to experiment with, and was considering the ones you mention. What is your white/white ratio?

 

[canar]

very nice canar, your reef has really grown.

Thanks buddy. I will be honest with everything I read in this forum on LED's I did not expect this to go as well as it did. With all this growth its time to get my calcium reactor running again! My wife is tired of mixing dowflake and baking soda all the time for me lol.

 

[canar]

Your using 2 different whites, which is what I am about to experiment with, and was considering the ones you mention. What is your white/white ratio?

about 90 to 10

The high noon effect whites I only run from 11Am to 1Pm

 

[jbraslins]

any uv/violet or red/green?

 

[canar]

I have added a couple reds with no optics just recently. You do not need a lot but they do make some of the colors pop even more.

To me that's one of the coolest part about LED's. The reef requires patience. Tinkering is usually bad. LED's give me something to tinker with that will not make a huge impact on the environment

 

[nitr8]

Sorry to go off topic but what is the purple plating coral with yellow polyps and rim? BTW, I am also an LED lover.

 

[mtcoins123]

You know there seems to be an awful lot of throwing around loosely of the word lover in this is really kind of something we should be concerned about I mean are you actually a lover to your LED lights I don't think so and you know when we use the word lover he needs to maintain its importance when we over use it like this its kinda cheapening the word

 

[canar]

Sorry to go off topic but what is the purple plating coral with yellow polyps and rim? BTW, I am also an LED lover.

Not a problem at all on changing the topic. getting me to remember what a coral I get is called is a problem though... I am terrible at that.

 

[AdamSabina]

Wow!!! I'm starting my SPS LED that is 3-4 months old but WOW. I can't wait!

 

[nitr8]

Not a problem at all on changing the topic. getting me to remember what a coral I get is called is a problem though... I am terrible at that.

No problem. I'll post the picture and ask the world...lol