Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board - Ecotech Marine’s Radion XR30w wins the 2011 Reef Builders LED showdown

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Originally Posted by cale262 (Post 670424)

more name calling...classy.

Name calling? Who did I call what name?

lol wow this thread is getting interesting

Kein, can I have some popcorn? :lol:

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Originally Posted by cale262 (Post 670424)

Noob feature??? what's that?

It's a feature that someone who's "new" to the hobby or not in the hobby at all would think is cool, when in fact it's a novelty and pointless.

For examples: lightning storm. All your friends that don't know much about reef tanks would say "wow, that's so amazing".....

Guys, let's just do the "agree to disagree" thing, ok?

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Originally Posted by nanomano (Post 670429)

lol wow this thread is getting interesting

Kein, can I have some popcorn? :lol:

Useless post....

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Originally Posted by MarkoD (Post 670387)

But youre right. It's a personal choice so no point in arguing

I agree with the whole BS Reef Builders scandal, regardless I own 6 of the Radions and have had improved growth in color over the last 2 months (compared to my halides/t5 combo). Marko your seriously wrong on your interpretation of peoples reactions, again like previously stated if I dropped 5 grand on lighting and thought it was garbage I would not hesitate to say so.

The results speak for themselves, these are on the sand bed of my 22" tank with the Radions mounted about 8" above the surface.

Got these paly's on 11-03-2011, added the Radions about 3 days after this.
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7093/img4396i.jpg

This is a 2 month growth shot.
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4061/mg5602a.jpg

Take a look at the back ground corals too, easy to notice growth all around.

The only reason I even say anything is because some person on the Internet might one day read these posts before making a decision and I wouldnt want someone to make a decision without seeing both sides. It's easy to be persuaded by all the spec sheets and fancy graphics and charts and paid reviews

Why am I having different results with my radion. A month with ai sols and everything was good. I put a radion on the right sideof my tank and kept ai sols on the left. I have my sols at 90% power and radion at 65% and wall my Zoe's under the radion have been closed for about a week now. I can't even tell if they're alive.

Last night i put radion on the far left and moved a sol to the far right. I'm gonna give it a week to see if anything rebounds

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Originally Posted by zoaElite (Post 670437)

I agree with the whole BS Reef Builders scandal, regardless I own 6 of the Radions and have had improved growth in color over the last 2 months (compared to my halides/t5 combo). Marko your seriously wrong on your interpretation of peoples reactions, again like previously stated if I dropped 5 grand on lighting and thought it was garbage I would not hesitate to say so.

The results speak for themselves, these are on the sand bed of my 22" tank with the Radions mounted about 8" above the surface.

Honestly I'm jealous of your tank and your results. But can not recreate the same results with my radion

Got these paly's on 11-03-2011, added the Radions about 3 days after this.
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7093/img4396i.jpg

This is a 2 month growth shot.
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4061/mg5602a.jpg

Take a look at the back ground corals too, easy to notice growth all around.

Also I never intended to come across as saying that radions are garbage. I'm just saying that from my limited experience I've noticed more benefit from 2 ai sols than with 1 radion