LED lighting?

doctormario777

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How many of you guys use LED lighting on your reef? I'm curious what kind of results you guys have gotten and if you have any shots of your current tank. Thanks in advance!
 
I switched about 4 months ago from t5 to led over my 150 sps tank and I'll try to post pics soon. I've seen no difference in color or growth witch is a great thing for me because my colors and growth have always been awesome.. The biggest thing is my powerbill has dropped so much it's crazy... I have 120 3 watt cree's with 4 colors, royal blue, blue,neutral white and cool white.. I couldn't be happier but was very nervous after the initial switch..
 
I have LEDs and have just gotten into SPS finally after having them fixed since the drivers were not calibrated properly. As I am just getting in, a friend gave me a few sacrificial frags of ORA joe the coral, ORA red planet, and a few others. Anyways they were some brown frags (except the red planet) because they had been on the undersides of his huge colonies and were also stressed from the move to my tank and my low mag and alk. After I quickly fixed the mag and alk, they are all coloring up. The joe the coral especially went from me not being able to ID it as joe the coral, to wow its green and blue in about 3 days. I think I'm starting to believe!

I have 30 Cree XR-E LEDs over a biocube 29g.
 
just made the switch myself i went with the Maxspect Mazarra P-series and currently have 2 modules with the controller on my 120 and will be adding 2 more modules to the mix.
 
I've been running led for almost 2yrs now. Maxspect 160wt g2 units to begin with, and now a 630wt cree diy.. I LOVE 'EM

All these pics/vid were taken with my cell phone so please excuse The poor quality

Maxspects

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New DIY

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grNyQBpiT9I

After running this lighting for a reasonable period of time I'd never go back to halide/t5 combo's.
Cheers, Ken.
 
KSMKEN, your tank looks amazing! Let me do the math here... 630W/3W each... 210 CREE LEDs? Wow, how much did a DIY like that run you? Also, do you have a dimmer setup?
 
KSMKEN, your tank looks amazing! Let me do the math here... 630W/3W each... 210 CREE LEDs? Wow, how much did a DIY like that run you? Also, do you have a dimmer setup?

Thankyou. Yep 210 in total, and Yes they're on manual dimmers.Total build cost was about $3500nzd. I'm not sure if reef central allows me to post a link to my build thread but I'll try tonight. Otherwise i can post more build pics here if you'd like.Thanks again, Ken.
 
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