Couple of days but started off 18 inches awl then lowered to 8 inches month later.

Thanks Rich, sounds like a plan. I'll start with three and hope I keep the colors, and as budget allows, I can add units if needed. But for now, I'm stuck at 3. Property taxes coming up, and I have to budget for Costa Rica next winter :)

I have a 6 ft tank with mixed sps and some LPS. I am running only 2 ai Sol, I run the lights from 8am to 12am slowly ramping up.

At 5 pm my lights run at 55%white 75 both blues till 8pm any brighter and things get upset, i don't have a deep tank and have the lights about 10inch above water.

Everything is growing amazing in my opinion.

I know how it feels Brad, just paid for $800 sewage and property tax is just around the corner. Some times I feel like I can even print it fast enough. Below is a picture of my tank's par reading with AI's on full blast, I used an apogee par meter. If you get a chance to get some par reading off your tank, maybe you can use it as a reference.

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/1d2023c4.jpg

Just in case here is a link to melevsreef, he has radium 250 and 400 mh par reading there.

Rich, is this with the three, or after the addition of the others?

No, Thats with all 9. If you look at the picture, there are 2 dark strips which are the 2 braces on the tank. As you can see the par reading drops off dramaticlly as soon as you get on the outter circle of the light and thats why I am gonna get 3 more.

thx

My buddy Peter, apexfd who took my old tank(210) which is similar to yours but taller had 3 AI's running for a while, now he has put on an extra one because it was too dim for him. I will ask him to give you some feedbacks since your tanks are so close in demension.

Does he have any significant SPS in the tank that would compare to mine? To compare color retention?

He has lots of sps coral but not too many large colonies like yours. I am heading over there tonight, I can snap some pictures for you and post it lif you like. I just got a new camera (Thanks to Wayne's input)and its my first DSLR so don't expect any thing fancy.:redface: