Led help?!?!?

rush2525

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Need some input... I have decided to sell my 120 g reef which sold in one day.

I am moving April 1st and I have purchased the tank and skimmer already.

300 gallon starphire dual overflow 72 x 36 wide x 27 high

This tank will be going in wall.

Vertex Alpha cone 300 skimmer

I am stuck on lights, not sure if I should go LED or T5 + LED combo like I had on my 120g.

I am tempted to go all LED but I have just a couple reserves... I plan on keeping an all SPS tank, and as of now not much study has been done with LED. Not to mention the cost to go with it. If I was to go with the Vertex Illumina or 6 sol blue's from AI or even 4 fixtures from Orphek, I am looking at the $3500-$4000 range on something that had no proven results as of yet.

If I do T5 + LED combo, I could have top of the line set up for under $2000

Anyways just seeing what you think I should do with a tank of those dimension and for SPS and fish only.
 
Radiums Metal Halides for full spectrum.
Giesemann T5 Actinic+ or Pure Actinic
LEDs, for added actinics.

Build it yourself. You can custom fit your lighting to your wants and needs. And save yourself some money without skimping on anything. You could have a really nice lighting setup for somewhere around $1000.
 
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