Yes!!!!!!!!! SPS Success with Leds! Come in and Share your Story!

tdb320reef

tdb320reef

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The purpose of those post is to illustrate practices and other processes that allow you SPS keepers to be successful with SPS and other corals in your LED lit tank.

It is also a place for those other users to learn about the efficiencies during the conversion process.

Please share your photos(Any Type), experiences, stories which will build a wealth of "Real World Theory" to lighting your tanks and being successful with LED lighting.

Tom
 
My Tanks

My Tanks

I have been growing SPS under lid lights since the beginning. Initially I when with the expensive ones but later found that the cheap ones were just as good even better at 1/3 of the price. I have two thanks. 1st JBJ 3G Pico 2nd 320 Gallon Great Lakes Aquarium


3G

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320G

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*all images compressed from RAW metadata not modifications under 75% Blue and 50% 6.5K White
 
Plenty of threads like this, not need for another one...you posted in one of the other threads...
 
Video

Video

Hi Below is a video of the 320 Gallon with 2 year old Cell Phone 5/02/2013.

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ganjero said:
Plenty of threads like this, not need for another one...you posted in one of the other threads...
Click to expand...

Hey thanks for the insight. Please feel free to post your success story or any questions that you may have. Perhaps it would be nice to get everything in one thread.
 
When I have success, I'll post.........what I for one would like to know, is your method for creating an undoubtedly gorgeous tank :)
 
My link below shows my mixed reef. It's been up for a year, in that time I've seen massive growth in montis, stylos, birdsnests. My acros are growing, but they've taken a while - I've also just got my Nitrates down below 1 recently so I attribute that to their slow growth more than anything. In that time I've lost 2 corals out of all you see, one monti (because I fried it under the lights,) and one porities (not sure why.)
 
Tdb320reef, your tanks look great!

I, for one, tried LED's, but ended up switching to MH. I never bought a PAR meter, and I think that they're probably crucial for dialing LED intensity. I've heard, though, that the PAR readings are not to be compared to other lighting (i.e. a 300 reading for LED's is actually stronger than a 300 reading for MH or T5). If that is true, that would maybe explain why others seem to have a hard time.

With that in mind, I have a few questions (maybe these questions should be answered by anyone posting about their success with LED's)

1. How long have you had the LED's over your reefs? (I know you said since the beginning, but a solid time frame could be helpful.)

2. Did you have any problems/issues during any of your experience? If so, what were they? (bleaching, other color issues, no/slow growth, STN/RTN, etc.)

3. How did you solve these problems?

4. What's your PAR readings at 6", 12", and 18"? (You already answered this, yourself, but it would be a great question to answer when others post their success stories)

5. What's your acclimation process?

Just some thoughts! :)
 
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Even though i don't use LED's over my halide/T5 display i do run a 120W 50/50 blue/white cheapo ebay unit over the forgotten corals section of my sump. There is nearly no circulation in the LED area, just the feed pump outlet and a rattling 250gph 'old fashioned' powerhead plonked in a corner - terrible water movement with lots of dead spots etc.
The tank is 4 months old and i know next to nothing about LED lighting but i see lots of people on here blaming LED's for an inability to keep SPS colored and/or alive.
I'm not really interested in LED's yet but i will say that anyone who can't keep SPS under anything from my non full spectrum LED unit up to the high end full spectrum LED fixtures like radions etc has their hand on it. I don't care one toss if i upset anyone tbh - i am an experienced SPS keeper and have had this LED unit running for months to see what all the fuss was about and i know what i'm doing when it comes to SPS and how to keep them successfully.

All these corals are wild collected and still acclimating to artificial lighting but i can assure anyone who cares to listen to my opinion that if your corals are all slowly dying under LED's - it isn't the light that's doing it. I run the LED's at 100% 10 hours a day. The sump pic is not sharp because i haven't cleaned the glass in 2 weeks so it is crazed with snail grazing tracks, i really don't care about the sump section or the corals in it tbh.

Proof is in the pics

Halide and T5 display:

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Blue/white LED sump section:

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The colors in both tanks are obviously much better in real life but you can see frags in the LED area and the same corals up above in the display. I really don't get this whole SPS are super hard to keep thing btw - the ones in the sump are in terrible flow conditions, they're not receiving a light spectrum anywhere near full yet they soldier on......... get your water right before you blame your lights.
 
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