What is your lighting of choice for optimum acropora color and growth
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kenneth wolfe
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Come on now, I'm a betting man and would bet the bank that led science can easily surpass mh, if manufacturers truly wanted to build the ultimate led fixture, it would easily out perform any mh fixture, it's like building are race engine after you already know there horse power and size, I can easily build a one off led light fixture to out compete any side buy side comparison of any fixture on the market ..thats not what the market bears , there is 100.00 dollar bb that ,,,sells because they work, maybe not the absolute best, ....100.00 is cheap open that box, the metal frame is worth half the money, we can absolutely mimic mh but no one does..simply not cost prohibited...but were not but a few years away imo, diodes are getting better , quality control is getting better, it's not rocket science...give me a budget I give you a true replacement...
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Volcmreefer
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2x G4 Pros for me. Color looks amazing!
Until a single diode put out a full spectrum range of light, then there can be no equality. This is possible, BTW, but the power that is required is many times more than that of the other light sources. Until you are blending and mixing, it will always be different with no way to be equal.
Also, the p-n junction LED has not fundamentally changed since the 1920s. Sure it was not commercialized until the 1960s, but lets don't act like this is all kinds of new tech. The packages and applications are different now, that is for sure.
For ten years, people have been saying that we are just a "few years away." Each year that actually passes in an indication of many more years of actual needed development, if it will ever come. AI has been a few years away every year since the 1970s. This might just be the lot of LED that their only true benefit is to cut spectrum in certain cases and what we have is what we have - that is probably the most real scenario, and not too bad of one for most of the cases where limited spectrum is just as good.
Also, the p-n junction LED has not fundamentally changed since the 1920s. Sure it was not commercialized until the 1960s, but lets don't act like this is all kinds of new tech. The packages and applications are different now, that is for sure.
For ten years, people have been saying that we are just a "few years away." Each year that actually passes in an indication of many more years of actual needed development, if it will ever come. AI has been a few years away every year since the 1970s. This might just be the lot of LED that their only true benefit is to cut spectrum in certain cases and what we have is what we have - that is probably the most real scenario, and not too bad of one for most of the cases where limited spectrum is just as good.
10Seconds
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For my eyes, the corals looks best under MH and T5 combos. It feels like some of the big names in corals are pushing LEDs for commercial and financial reasons not out of true belief in them. Or else put way more LED fixtures on their tank than the average hobby guy ever would.
I have only ever used T5, T5+led and leds alone. I currently have two ati hybrids over my tank and am considering switching to MH+T5.
I have a 8x3x2 tank, I'm wondering if I should go with 400w or will 250w suffice? I was looking at the Giesemann Spectre 48" x2 with luxcore selectable ballast. I assume I would need four ballast to run four MH bulbs correct? I've never ran MH before so the ballast part confuses me a bit.
Anyone with advice would be greatly appreciated.
I have a 8x3x2 tank, I'm wondering if I should go with 400w or will 250w suffice? I was looking at the Giesemann Spectre 48" x2 with luxcore selectable ballast. I assume I would need four ballast to run four MH bulbs correct? I've never ran MH before so the ballast part confuses me a bit.
Anyone with advice would be greatly appreciated.
kenneth wolfe
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It definitely works. I just really like the crisp look of a radium bulb and the natural shimmer it provides.
ComforablyNumb
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I have no idea why anyone would want to take heat and cost out of the equation.
Is this a hypothetical situation?
Is this a hypothetical situation?
ComforablyNumb
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The Kessil diffusing lens appears to blend color of all the leds in the tiny cluster as it leaves the lens. I think thats why you see no disco ball effect with them.
five.five-six
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I have yet to see anything that comes close to 20K 250w radiums on a M80 ballest over 24” of water. It’s a freak of nature how well they work.
Mr. Brooks
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Yes.
For me, cost is not a factor. Color and growth outweighs any cost associated with lighting.
Thanks for the feedback. So you recommend running 400w due to the width of my tank but not necessarily the height correct? Run 400w and raise them up a bit to cover the 3 feet wide tank?
What if I told you the all the rock work is towards some what right in the middle of the tank and that's where I plan to keep all the SPS. Would you still recommend 400w over the 250w?
Mr. Brooks
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I ran this for 8 months but switched to World Wide Coral's color spectrum recently. The AB+ program is really blue, like too blue unless you run your Radions at 100% with fans screaming. Seems to lack intensity compared to the WWC program. For me at least.
Big E
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Make sure you get quality reflectors. Lumenarc 3's revolutionized reflector designs. They aren't availalble new anymore but there are other brands that have copied the design and work just as well. Most are approx. 20x20"
This will give a maximum coverage similar to this--
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