SPS and T5 lit tanks!

[Shawnts106]

hey you guys, Let post some pictures of tanks ran with T5's.

There isnt a whole lot of Pictures showing people how good these bulbs are and how nice you can get colors out of them!


So show them!

 

[msuzuki126]

bump.

 

[reefcrazy93]

bump

 

[bnlimit10]

 

[reefcrazy93]

 

[reefcrazy93]

 

[duec22]

Full tank

 

[dvanacker]

Bad picture but I havent mastered photography yet.....

and some top downs

 

[kamiru]

this is mine.

http://spsmarinetank.blogspot.com/

 

[Ti]

great looking pics

 

[Bugger]

yeah just wait 4 months when stuff starts dieing from the base up!

 

[duec22]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8089220#post8089220 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bugger
yeah just wait 4 months when stuff starts dieing from the base up!

Long past 4 months.

 

[oddballs]

why would it die from the base up?my sis has a t 5 lit tank thats been up for nearly 2 years and its sps and montys rival 80% of the other sps out there including mine,and the growth is freaking incredible.the bad hype about t 5s is just hype!i doubted them for months until my excuses ran out know our next show tank in the shop is gonna be t 5s if you cant beat em join em!

 

[fish lad]

can anyone tell me how many t5's i would need on a 16" deep tank

i would like the higher loving corals down 8" max and all the lesser lighting montis any lower than that

also what bulbs you all using?

 

[Razzagas]

this one is pretty amazing..
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2006/2/aquarium

 

[dvanacker]

Frank Esser Aquarium is a freaking inspiration for T5 users. And no skimmer to boot. 216 watts over 80g and SPS all over the place.

Bugger....get your facts striaight before you post. The last post I read of yours you were telling some guy to put 6 250watt MH on a 90 gallon.

 

[Shawnts106]

DUEC22: that is a really cool small colony of acro in the third picture down, its blurry, but really cool.

yeah just wait 4 months when stuff starts dieing from the base up!

Haha, not to be snappy, but Ya' Gots ta' gots ta' gots ta' do your research before you assume things like that.


FISH LAD, for all T5 Query please visit LIGHTING, FILTRATION, and OTHER EQUIPMENT forum for further information

Bugger....get your facts striaight before you post. The last post I read of yours you were telling some guy to put 6 250watt MH on a 90 gallon.

Oh LORD! where on earth have you been getting your research from bugger! my oh my, thats crazy talk! you have been sipping ONE TOO MANY of those Vodka treatments out of your tank when restarting your oveflow's syphon! haha

Please list your lighting setup and bulb combo's when you post people so we can all see what your running!

 

[Serioussnaps]

Lmao DVAN....

can anyone say IVAN/??//////?///

 

[Serioussnaps]

dying from the base up sounds like STN and non light related so yeah go do your homework sonny

 

[duec22]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8092496#post8092496 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Shawnts106
DUEC22: that is a really cool small colony of acro in the third picture down, its blurry, but really cool.


Please list your lighting setup and bulb combo's when you post people so we can all see what your running!

That's my bonsi (Don't know if it's a Garf or not I got it at a frag swap a couple months ago) I'm going to be raising my lights a couple of inches to see if I can get some richer colors out of the corals including some darker purple on the base of this one)

Lights are SLS retros from reefgeek.com. I've got 5x24W over the main tank with the six bulb over my HOB fuge. Lights are all Giesemann bulbs and are in the following order:
Front
Actinic Plus : 12am-10pm
11000K Aquablue Plus: 3pm-8pm
Actinic Plus : 1pm-6pm
11000K Aquablue Plus: 3pm-8pm
Actinic Plus : 12am-10pm
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