Daddi0
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Thought I would start a journal chronicling our transition from LED back to t5.
We have been running a MarsAqua 300 LED for over a year and while everything is okay, it is not spectacular. Certain areas of the reef (65 gallon) seemed to grow coral good while the same coral 2 inches away would be struggling. Also the LED did not really get to the bottom of corals leaving some of the corals suffering at the base.
We pulled the Mars Aqua and replaced it with a 36" 6 bulb H/O T5 39w.(non-dimmable) We run 6 reefs and this tank is going to be our "grow" tank. To that end our starting bulb selection from the front is:
1 - Actinic
2 - 6500k
3 - 6500k
4 - 6500k
5 - 6500k
6 - 10,000k
This tank is SPS heavy with a major focus on Acros. Corals include:
Walt Disney, Homewrecker, The Vihn, Orange Passion Tenius, Blue Tenius, Midnight Blue Tenius, Purple Rain, Shawn Bennett Yellow Tort, Copps CalaCali, Lemon-Lime Tenius, Miyagi, Tri-color Valida, Tri-color Tort, Green Acro, Bali Slimer, Hawkins Enchinada, PokerStar Monti, Foxx Goldmeister chalice, Space Invader Chalice & Pectina, Pearlberry Acro, Tyree Ponepe Birdsnest, Bubble Gum Digi, Purple Bonsai, Turbinaria, Setosa, Idaho Grape Monti, Mummy Eye Chalice, Miami Hurricane Chalice, and others. Including a lot of frags for grow out.
Lights were swapped out on June 6th (day #1)
All are welcome to share their thoughts.
Cheers! Mark
We have been running a MarsAqua 300 LED for over a year and while everything is okay, it is not spectacular. Certain areas of the reef (65 gallon) seemed to grow coral good while the same coral 2 inches away would be struggling. Also the LED did not really get to the bottom of corals leaving some of the corals suffering at the base.
We pulled the Mars Aqua and replaced it with a 36" 6 bulb H/O T5 39w.(non-dimmable) We run 6 reefs and this tank is going to be our "grow" tank. To that end our starting bulb selection from the front is:
1 - Actinic
2 - 6500k
3 - 6500k
4 - 6500k
5 - 6500k
6 - 10,000k
This tank is SPS heavy with a major focus on Acros. Corals include:
Walt Disney, Homewrecker, The Vihn, Orange Passion Tenius, Blue Tenius, Midnight Blue Tenius, Purple Rain, Shawn Bennett Yellow Tort, Copps CalaCali, Lemon-Lime Tenius, Miyagi, Tri-color Valida, Tri-color Tort, Green Acro, Bali Slimer, Hawkins Enchinada, PokerStar Monti, Foxx Goldmeister chalice, Space Invader Chalice & Pectina, Pearlberry Acro, Tyree Ponepe Birdsnest, Bubble Gum Digi, Purple Bonsai, Turbinaria, Setosa, Idaho Grape Monti, Mummy Eye Chalice, Miami Hurricane Chalice, and others. Including a lot of frags for grow out.
Lights were swapped out on June 6th (day #1)
All are welcome to share their thoughts.
Cheers! Mark
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