New tank with LED light

Your corals are clearly doing much better under the T5's. It is exactly this occurrence with LED's that prevents me from upgrading to LED's. I am yet to see a tank fully grown on LED's that can rival MH or T5 systems. Something is just not quite there...
 
I know Sahin, thats whats got me worried now as i have 3 GHL LEDs coming and im scared to use them from my past experience with LED. Im happy with the direction my tank is going and have a nervouse feeling that the LED might halt that
 
I think you will be very happy with the newer leds now that they are full spectrum. I have the pacific sun hyperion with t5's. I am seeing amazing growth and the colors are amazing even with the t5's off.

Here are a couple of shots from my tank...these are not filtered and no photo shop and taken under led's only.

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rodneyri said:
I know Sahin, thats whats got me worried now as i have 3 GHL LEDs coming and im scared to use them from my past experience with LED. Im happy with the direction my tank is going and have a nervouse feeling that the LED might halt that
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I think the colours from the GHL Mitras will be somewhat better. The Mitras is another unit I was considering...

But: I get great colour out of my custom modified ATI Sunpower with T5/LED hybrid...So I am scared of moving over to 100% LED's. The main reason for wanting to swap over is to avoid the bulb changes, have a sleeker light unit and be able to gain some experience and knowledge regarding keeping SPS under 100% LED's. It will be a new challenge...but I dont want it if the ultimate colour cannot be obtained.

SPotter said:
I think you will be very happy with the newer leds now that they are full spectrum. I have the pacific sun hyperion with t5's. I am seeing amazing growth and the colors are amazing even with the t5's off.
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Is that unit built in with T5's or did you add DIY T5's?

I have a T5/LED combo and I love it. The coral colours are very good.
 
My unit was built with t5's. I only run the t5's right now for about 3.5 hrs a day because the leds are really powerful. When both t5's and leds are on at 100% I am getting par readings of 300 on the sand bed and thats with the light 30" from the sand bed.
 
ill have my Mitras in next week so here are some final shots under the ATI before I take the LED plunge again.

Today
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Two months ago
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sahin said:
I think the colours from the GHL Mitras will be somewhat better. The Mitras is another unit I was considering...

But: I get great colour out of my custom modified ATI Sunpower with T5/LED hybrid...So I am scared of moving over to 100% LED's. The main reason for wanting to swap over is to avoid the bulb changes, have a sleeker light unit and be able to gain some experience and knowledge regarding keeping SPS under 100% LED's. It will be a new challenge...but I dont want it if the ultimate colour cannot be obtained.



Is that unit built in with T5's or did you add DIY T5's?

I have a T5/LED combo and I love it. The coral colours are very good.
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I agree with Sahin. My T5/LED DIY hybrid gives me flexibility on bulb choice thus helping good coral color.
However, my reason for going from T5 to T5/LED was because of the space in the canopy. It could only hold 5 T5 and did not give enough par for SPS keeping. With 2 T5 removed and installed 2 rows of LEDs, I have sufficient par for SPS.
 
rodneyri said:
took some top downs with my SLR yesterday with the new Mitras LEDs on

my rainbow
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poker stars
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black and gold clam
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OMG wow it really brings out the color in the bubble algae. Just kidding. Your corals look amazing. What are the details about the LED.
 
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