GHL Mitras Club

I already know what will happen to them! :)
Here are two no name and lost (originally) browned out and tiny frags that I got from an lfs about 2 months ago.. When I got them they were literally little brown twigs..
I think this is an echinata..
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I glued it up high in the tank because it was one of my first corals and I had no clue what it was.. Now I can't remove it because it is so encrusted. It would probably look a bit better lower down.. There's a green tenuis (I think) glued just above it..
Here's a blue tenuis which has quadrupled in size and is right at the top of the tank. Again, I didn't know what it was when I got it.. Pretty sure it's a blue tenuis..
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In the upper right corner is a poison ivy frag and at the bottom centre is a two week (in my tank) old orange passion.. When it's a little bigger and sexier, I'll take a better shot..
So Micheal, this is what you can expect from your Mitras!!
 
I'm having fun because I made a discovery, tonight.
The best way to photograph corals under the Mitras is the put all the blues at 60% and the whites at 100.. Red and green I didn't play with.. They were at around 10%
Here's a couple more iphone4 shots using a viewing box- like the ones above.
My tort garden.. Sorry lousy shot.. I thought it was in better focus.
At the bottom of the shot is a frag of tyree purple monster which is colouring up well..
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Here's a mariculture piece that almost died after I dipped the cr@p out of it.. It has begun to bounce back nicely..
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Here's another, better shot of my ice fire echinata with more balanced lighting..
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Needless to say, I no longer have any doubts as to te capabilities of this light..
 
thanks Anim8me2!

its my own program that has been refined quite a bit over the past several months..
i basically begin the day with a 22k starting point and it ramps up to around 12.5k at midday. red never gets much above 30%, green closer to 45% and the whites max out at about 60%- sky white being the highest.
the hyper violet, blue, royal blue and blue white leds are at max throughout the lighting schedule.
the day starts at 7 am and ends at 11pm. from 7 to 9 am and 9 to 11 pm, the tank is viewable but dim..
 
also, I have 3 over a five foot length so they are currently running at 60% for the outer two and 50% for the middle, on high efficiency mode..
i am acclimating a couple of corals and increasing the intensity by 5% a week at the moment..
i don't think ill get much above 80% when I'm done, though.. I've never run them higher than that and don't see the need..
 
reefmutt said:
also, I have 3 over a five foot length so they are currently running at 60% for the outer two and 50% for the middle, on high efficiency mode..
i am acclimating a couple of corals and increasing the intensity by 5% a week at the moment..
i don't think ill get much above 80% when I'm done, though.. I've never run them higher than that and don't see the need..
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Are you using the 6100 or the 6200?

Don
 
Hey Don,

I have the 6200s
I really like the addition of the blue white and sky white LEDs.
Especially the blue white. With the other blue LEDs on and the blue white mixed in, it produces a really sharp look. I use it during dawn and dusk. It's a crisp blue..
 
I'm using the GBR program but I need to adjust things.
My PAR seems to be lower than it should and my sps colors are not what I have been expecting. I love the look at full midday (which for me is 4 pm, sun up on my system is 10 am), but it's a pain in the butt having to drag out an old PC to try an program the master since I use Macs for everything else.
 
I sympathize completely!!
I am mac as well.. I have to borrow my friend's laptop to do all the programming..
It's a real pita!!........
I'd go into your program and boost all the blues across the board.. By doing that, the tank will look more blue obviously, then you'll have to go back and bring up the whites to your taste. Once the whites are raised, I'm sure the par will be boosted significantly..

One thing to be careful with when using LEDs is that when the white LEDs are too intense, the corals can react in the same way as when corals have too little light- by bleaching or becoming pale.. In my experience, anyways...
 
AQD_ottawa said:
well to add some fun into this thread I thought i would start a "can a mitras grow a sorry looking SPS test"

well here are my test subjects both came from the bottom of a friend of mines old tank, he was not even aware the bit of life left in the stag horn even had polyps let alone colour.

Just for fun lets see what the Mitras can do with these two in the next month.

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Oh and here is the test bed ;) (not the best shot I might add)

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Is very beautiful, who mitras is?
 
Wow. That's a lot of light.. Interesting..
The corals are obviously loving it.
How much do you feed the tank and what do you do for nutrient removal?
I ask because it seems to me that the more the corals are fed the better they deal with intense led lighting...
 
_Aaron_ said:
Thanks man. :)



I use my own one I created. Starts off blues, at noon it goes flat out all channels on high output for 3 hours, then fades into a 14k and then around 7pm goes to about 27k before ending in blues.

Program is here. It's for the 6200.
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Wondering if i can upload your program to 6100 unit?
 
_Aaron_ said:
I think you can but it may not turn out the same due to the different LED's in the 6200.
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I can confirm that it "works" but the color temps are not going to match what they would be on the 6200. Some of the channels are moved around, so the intensities don't match. I wouldn't do it personally.


Don
 
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