Your LED fixture opinion please

[Reef Bass]

Yes, LEDs for the house. I find it interesting how CFLs have pretty much come and gone, replaced by LEDs, compared to how long incandescents were around.

 

[Steve Ruddy]

On a separate note Steve, how have your 5000K lights been received? Some people have a strong preference for very yellow warm white (2700k) and feel 5000K is too "hospital like".

Myself I am down with 5000K. i put 4000K in my kitchen and that seems a good compromise. I am using 3000K in my livingroom. I find the difference between 2700K (warm white) and 3000K (cool white) very noticeable and much to my liking.

I still use warm lamps in my dinning room and living room but everywhere else they are higher kelvin. My office, were I have my desktop monitor, I use 5k high CRI LED. They are great for viewing artwork and color proofing.

 

[LittleBigReef]

I've been using cheap *** ocean revives, and they have been growing sps fine. So if u wanna save some money I would recommend those, but if you wanna be a big baller shot caller I vote for Radeons! [emoji389][emoji389][emoji389]


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[Grant W]

Just got the reef breeders v2 unit. After about 15 years using my my/t5 setup I decided after seeing and doing my research the v2 was a great unit. Love the idea of no heat and $100 less a month on the PG&E. ;-)

 

[swk]

Adam uses these with halides on his prop system. He hangs them high around 18-24" at runs them at all channels at 100%

 

[Grant W]

I'll work my way up slowly but with the beast they are replacing it prob won't take long lol

 

[Ssteve]

I'll work my way up slowly but with the beast they are replacing it prob won't take long lol

All I did was take par measurements of my t5's and attempt to duplicate those numbers with the leds. I didn't have any issues and everything in my tank is growing like weeds now. One fixture won't be enough for your tank though, you'll end up getting a bunch of shadowing from your sticks. I added the supplemental led strips they sell and ultimately Ill need to add more light at some point cause things are getting shadowed as my frags turn into colonies.

 

[Grant W]

Thanks for the word Steve. I figured it wouldn't match my old system having pegged the par meter and showing 1300 par in the water lol. But I'll see how it goes

 

[kodiak23]

Grant- Good luck with the new lights, let us know how they work out.
Here is a pic of your green coral that everyone has, think I need to get a better camera instead of this iphone.

 

[Grant W]

Hey Kody, good to see you. So far so good but honestly I haven't done the programming yet so still using the presets......