Brad, I wasn't getting spotlighting, but rather 3 faint cone effects with just running 3. With the DIYs, it eliminated that.

You are familiar with my tank. You know that my highest rock is 12" below the water surface. Even now I run my SOLs at 60% and am still getting great colours. I started my LEDs at 60% and still bleached out some of my coral but was able to recover them, it just looked horrible during the recovery period. Just wanted to advise you based on experience.

Hope this helps. At 60% I don't think it looks dark. But I'll tell you one thing, when I switched over to LEDs 15 months ago, I regretted at first because it's such a different look compared to halides. The halides looked brighter and more like the sun. But now I love em. It grew on me I guess. Sorry for the rant.

You can borrow my module until your other ones come in. might help maintain the colour

Thanks Jon, but I'm just going to order right away. If I need to, I can borrow 3 from Japarto and give him mine when they get in.

I'll take that under advisement :) I suppose I'll get used to it, but when you first see it, it's like "what's wrong with your tank??" lol

Ok, three more lights added, and I'm happy with it so far. I only got a brief glimpse of the full group on at 80% while playing with the programming, but very happy with the coverage. And with 6, I may even keep them below 100 for a few days :)
I'll post some pics as soon as I can get time, see what the color looks like to the camera.

Glad to see you bought some more
Sorry to hear you had to buy some more :mrgreen:

Ya, me too :)

It's 5am, and even the moonlight coverage is better, so I think this should work out fine.
Now I'm just hoping my rail system can hold 40 pounds of light :razz:

are you on the ichiban/college student diet now or did you sell a kidney? :wink:

I'm self sufficient. I removed the kidney and will eat that until I pay the lights off :razz:

ROFL!!!:mrgreen:

HAHAHAHA! you are my hero! Thanks for the morning chuckle.:lol:

go ahead, laugh...you're not eating your own internal organs!!

But once it's removed.. It's no longer an internal organ.. Just a nasty old kidney and besides you have.. Well errr had two... So what's the big dealio?

This is totally not how I envisioned the zombie apocalypse starting. Stupid LEDs!!

Thanks everyone for the great giggles

I, too, hope your budget mounting rails will hold all that dough

still think you should have gone with radions:razz:......although that would have meant you likely would have already been enjoying your kidney with some fava beans and a nice Chianti:wink:

Pretty sure I'd still need 6, and at 825 a pop, that was never an option! Even if I could get away with 4, that's still a huge difference, and for that extra bling (red lights??), I just don't see the value..

Wow, Brad I can't wait to see it now. Looking forward to the light show.:biggrin:

Ya, me either. Lights have been on the tank for 2 days, I still haven't seen it before the moonlight phase :) Hopefully today..

How are you liking the lights Brad? More importantly how are the corals reacting to the change?

I don't know, I haven't got home in time to see them yet :) I did crank them down a bit in case, but the almost week with three at 100% went fine. Even the highest corals directly below the 40s had no problem soaking it all in. I hope to get home in time to see the lighting today...

Glad to hear Brad. Hopefully the new intensity will give your corals enough new growth for the swap.:smile: