I pulled down my 3yr old tank as I was doing renovations at home and got sick of the stand and wanted a new one. So the long planning stage took place in Jan 2011 to design this tank, I was going for a cabinet to match the rest of my furniture and to hide the ugly chiller.
Now for the other reason for changing tanks, ive had a few types of lights over my tanks and with all the hype about LED I thought id give it a go. So many different opinions on this light if it can or cant grow corals, colors and the like. Well I liked the low power, no need to change tubes (so the manufacturers claim 50k hours we will see), less heat, and fully programmable. So after alot of thought I decided to rip down my old tank, take frags and start all over again from the ground up to really see what these LEDs can do.
I have kept my birdnest which I grew from a frag and a few small SPS I have grown from frags. No wild colonies to really see how I can go with this system.
Now picking the fixture, I dont have a hood so a full pendant had to be the way to go...coming from the giesemann and ATI PM it had to be aesthetically pleasing...so Vertex Illumina 1200 it was. I wanted to do this right so coughed up alot of cash for this light as it best suited my needs.
So I invite you to join me on my journey with growing a SPS tank from frags under LED
This was the design I came up with, had ATI at the time lol
and this is how it turned out.
Im running a simple sump, with a skimmer and just rowaphos and carbo, CR for calcium/alk supplement.
Im still learning how to take photos but here are some unprocessed pics, looking really blue under the LEDs though. These shots were taken with 8-% white and 100% blue/RB on
Im really keen to see how LED works in my tank, ive had them for 4 months now.
Rod
Now for the other reason for changing tanks, ive had a few types of lights over my tanks and with all the hype about LED I thought id give it a go. So many different opinions on this light if it can or cant grow corals, colors and the like. Well I liked the low power, no need to change tubes (so the manufacturers claim 50k hours we will see), less heat, and fully programmable. So after alot of thought I decided to rip down my old tank, take frags and start all over again from the ground up to really see what these LEDs can do.
I have kept my birdnest which I grew from a frag and a few small SPS I have grown from frags. No wild colonies to really see how I can go with this system.
Now picking the fixture, I dont have a hood so a full pendant had to be the way to go...coming from the giesemann and ATI PM it had to be aesthetically pleasing...so Vertex Illumina 1200 it was. I wanted to do this right so coughed up alot of cash for this light as it best suited my needs.
So I invite you to join me on my journey with growing a SPS tank from frags under LED
This was the design I came up with, had ATI at the time lol
and this is how it turned out.
Im running a simple sump, with a skimmer and just rowaphos and carbo, CR for calcium/alk supplement.
Im still learning how to take photos but here are some unprocessed pics, looking really blue under the LEDs though. These shots were taken with 8-% white and 100% blue/RB on
Im really keen to see how LED works in my tank, ive had them for 4 months now.
Rod