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6200 light projects
6200 light projects
Hi
I'm hoping someone can send me the light project from Aarondown that used to be hosted on the profilux owners club
doc_dan_187@yahoo.ca
Thanks
VR
6200 light projects
Hi
I'm hoping someone can send me the light project from Aarondown that used to be hosted on the profilux owners club
doc_dan_187@yahoo.ca
Thanks
VR
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danrobberg
New member
Can anyone send me a project for an sps tank please. Danrobberg@yahoo.com. I have no idea what intensity to use either.
ClownReef®
Bubbletrousing
All contribited projects : http://www.profiluxowners.com/mitras/
Note: some are for the 6100 and others for the 6200.
Too be honest, after trying several different projects running for 3 months each the best I have come up with for my SPS tank with the 6200's is: All blues and Hyperviolet at 100%, Sky White 40% and all the others at 20%. I use this for 8 hours with a 1.5 hour ramp/down from all 0% all blue. Simple and very effective for me. Overall intensity slider at 65% (I run in the high efficiency mode) I threw away my usb cord to keep me from screwing with the light anymore! Might be a bit blue for you, but growth and color is excellent for me. I feed coral foods 3 nights a week, mix reef roids and coral vitilizer at the recommended doses and have a light to moderate fish load.
Been doing this for 5 months and am very happy as is my tank. Your mileage any vary.
Also, adjust the overall intensity light to suit your corals and depth. Take it SLOW and start out at no more than 50%. in the high efficiency mode.
P.s. My light setting works out to about 17000K for those who follow that stuff. The trick to LED (for me) is to have a reasonable ramp (dusk dawn) and a steady setting for 7-8 hours of one color and reasonable overall Intensity. It will always look less bright than T5 or MH.
The published programs that give a slow continuous ramp from 22K to 6.5K-10K and back down has not been what my corals like at all. Makes sense on paper but not in my tank.
Note: some are for the 6100 and others for the 6200.
Too be honest, after trying several different projects running for 3 months each the best I have come up with for my SPS tank with the 6200's is: All blues and Hyperviolet at 100%, Sky White 40% and all the others at 20%. I use this for 8 hours with a 1.5 hour ramp/down from all 0% all blue. Simple and very effective for me. Overall intensity slider at 65% (I run in the high efficiency mode) I threw away my usb cord to keep me from screwing with the light anymore! Might be a bit blue for you, but growth and color is excellent for me. I feed coral foods 3 nights a week, mix reef roids and coral vitilizer at the recommended doses and have a light to moderate fish load.
Been doing this for 5 months and am very happy as is my tank. Your mileage any vary.
Also, adjust the overall intensity light to suit your corals and depth. Take it SLOW and start out at no more than 50%. in the high efficiency mode.
P.s. My light setting works out to about 17000K for those who follow that stuff. The trick to LED (for me) is to have a reasonable ramp (dusk dawn) and a steady setting for 7-8 hours of one color and reasonable overall Intensity. It will always look less bright than T5 or MH.
The published programs that give a slow continuous ramp from 22K to 6.5K-10K and back down has not been what my corals like at all. Makes sense on paper but not in my tank.
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I just tweaked mine a bit and cut the photoperiod from 12 hrs to about 9.
It has a 20k look and is "SPS acclimation friendly". It wont fry my corals. It has a more "blue" 20K look.
Also, I find what Mark stated above to be true about most LEDS I've had. Its usually all blues at 100% and Whites somewhere between 35-40%. Red and green lower than whites 10-20%. I think this is a good baseline.
However, I would be careful with the UV because I ramped that up and I believe that's what fried my sps initially.
This is my project for the Mitras 6200. I think its a good baseline and people can tweak it from there. The intensity is around 50%. I plantto increase as soon as my nitrates fall and begin to add SPS. Hope it helps anyone. My frogspawn tolerates this light intensity well.
Here is the zip file, let me know if your able to use it.
It has a 20k look and is "SPS acclimation friendly". It wont fry my corals. It has a more "blue" 20K look.
Also, I find what Mark stated above to be true about most LEDS I've had. Its usually all blues at 100% and Whites somewhere between 35-40%. Red and green lower than whites 10-20%. I think this is a good baseline.
However, I would be careful with the UV because I ramped that up and I believe that's what fried my sps initially.
This is my project for the Mitras 6200. I think its a good baseline and people can tweak it from there. The intensity is around 50%. I plantto increase as soon as my nitrates fall and begin to add SPS. Hope it helps anyone. My frogspawn tolerates this light intensity well.
Here is the zip file, let me know if your able to use it.
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ClownReef®
Bubbletrousing
Does the unit have a moonlight feature?
AQD_ottawa
New member
FYI everyone, Mitras NOW permentantly $799 !!!!
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=24383700#post24383700
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=24383700#post24383700
scott11
New member
Here is my 36x36x32 cube with 1 x LX6200
how high above the water line is the light?
AQD_ottawa
New member
12" inches which is the recommended
danrobberg
New member
Michael, I just lowered mine to 8 inches due to having t5 supplemental light. I didn't like the t5 12 inches above the water and if I lower the t5 they block some of the light from the led. Do you see any problems with this? My tank is 32x32x24. With the t5 off the led still has nice coverage over the whole tank.
AQD_ottawa
New member
Providing you dont see water splash 
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)Hi Mark you sent me a pm but due to not having enough post I can't email you back, can you send me the Aussie reef project to Richard.walton@me.com thanks buddy. This will be my last try with Mitras I have 6x 6200 that are now just sitting in a box and gone back to 2x8x54T5 as every project I have tried hasn't given the same results as my t5 system. I only have Aussies sps in my tank and its stock to the brim so I'm really want this to work.
Thanks
Rich
monkeyboy321
New member
I've recently upgraded my tank and was wondering if someone can recommend an overall intensity for 45cm deep.
Got the lights at 30cm above water. 2 units. 150cm long tank
Got the lights at 30cm above water. 2 units. 150cm long tank
I would set up the fixtures parallel with the tank. It will cover nicely. Mines cover 32" individually very well at about 15 in (38cm) high. For intensity, start out with 60% overall in High Efficiency mode. Observe how your corals response then go from there. Set from 65K - 13K for the time you're not home for about 6hrs (2hrs ramping up and 4hrs constant) and whatever color temp that brings out the best coloration in your corals for 3 hrs so you can enjoy your tank when you're home. I got exceptional growth with these Mistras. I ran mine at 80% in High Efficiency right now. Here's a link to my old tank. I took it down recently and upgraded to a larger tank.
