Losers without LED club (Join now!)
 

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I've been busy reading a lot of LED threads lately and feeling great about not being able to afford any so I thought a club would be super neat.

Pros of being in the club:

- a club is much cheaper than LED (free)
- the club outputs no heat which helps offset your halides
- feel cool being part of the majority
- potential for weight loss, better love life and more*

*no

Cons:

- we're all still losers without LED

Here is the club's mascot:

Ol' Blue is big, a bit noisy and heavier than Kien.

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Can I haz join club too?

I feel like I would have joined, however I dont like the mascot, it's too bright. Can you make him silver and PFO like?

Are you saying that Kien is loud? Or just little? I think the PFO would be quieter than Kien, but still heavier.

I don't recall if you have moonlights. So the answer is MAYBE.

Neither are nearly as loud as Kien. The PFO is currently working. Ol' Blue has lots of free time right now so I signed his metal rear-end up.

yesssssss im so in...wait now....does a led flashlight count??

I'm in. I can be a loser with the best of them.
The LED people can have their own club Lots of Extra Dough!

Welcome aboard guys! Maybe if we get a few thousand members we can all chip in a buck or two and then have a draw so one lucky person can leave the club in style?

No moonlights here! Maybe it's by moonlighting that people GET to be able to buy LED lighting? Oh the punny irony!

I have moonlights in my fixture... Well HAD, as I took them out in order to gain easy access to cleaning glass and coverings, without removing the whole light fixture from the tank.

CAN I PLEASE JOIN!!!

This just in: moonlights don't count! Although they better be 1w or less emitters or the members may need to vote?

Welcome!

Big Ol Blue here 2, with Blue bulb.

yup I have joined in 3 lonely IC 250's

Saskatchewan chapter member signing up.... 48 blistering "super nova" watts of T5 ....OH YAAAA

Good to see a T5er in our ranks =)

I'm going to suggest you're not AS much of a loser as I am but I still sympathize!

I have LEDs but they've been in my closet in an unopened shipping box for months. I'm too lazy to put them together so I'm still using a T5 fixture, can I join??

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can i join the ranks of the t5's sorry it's all i got.... wait i have an led flashlight ....somewhere..............:redface:

If moonlights don't count then I'm in! But maybe only for a short time till I cross the tracks!

Hi, I am from the Happy LED Owners Society
 

Hello i have LED's but i just stopped in to say: " I LOVE MY LED's " and they were cheap. $400 for a 55 gal corner tank

I guess with 4 x 250 MH and 12 x T5's on just one of my tanks I am a big loser. I'm in!

I am a close second with 4 - 250w MH & 8 T5's on one tank & 2 - 250w MH & 4 PC's on another.

ok i am the biggest loser out here with MH and T5 and just bought the fixture last year when LED was already out.

As a token of my great respect for this club, which I most certainly want to be part of, I can make this post go away if the club so sees fit ....:)

OOH can I join too? I have moon light too but they are just the Coralife ones so really they just classify as junk and are not the "REAL" LED's that cost a kidney or first born or something. So I'm still in right? Please?

Word.

I just replaced my old sad and uncool halides with.. Yes you guessed it, new sad and still uncool halides! Now where's my t-shirt beeotches?!

There's t-shirts??

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I would like to join this club also! I was looking for something to fill those pesky eleven minutes a day that I have free when I am not doing tank maintanance or feeding dart frogs.
I have 1200 watts of metal halide glory burning over my 30" deep 6' tank.
It's nice to be able to grow acros right to the bottom of my tank.
I have never taken the time to add up all of the T 5's over my dart frogs but with 14 tanks I'm sure it adds up.
Do I qualfy?
I need an XL t-shirt please!
Keith.

If there is I want the number 48 on mine. Matches my watts .... deep hey!

It's not my current tank I looked into lighting it's a 400. So multiply that by 8 or so and fire me a down payment!

We don't want to be too aggressive Brad. He may run back with his tail between his legs soon enough you never know...

I did the shirt thing go dig one of those up lol. I do however have a drawer of kids tattoos with spiderman, dora, winnie the poo and more on them. We could maybe fire up some spirit that way?

Oh! Oh Oh! *waving hands frantically*

Can I join? I've never been allowed to hang with the cool kids before!

:lol: You guys are to funny. And no, I not joining.......:lol:

LED's are cool, MH and T5's are HOT.
*just sayin*:wink:

In the true spirit of this club what you should do is draw up a design and post it to the forum. This way the members can simply download it, print it to iron on sheets and iron their own damn t-shirts. You know, all old skool and ghetto and stuff 'cuz that's how we rollz!

Or in the case of those who don't have irons, just hold the tshirt up to your halides with the sheet in between and get transference that way...

I just want to actually pass on my sympathies to those who have paid the high price of being in early on a new technology or fad...

LEDs are getting alot cheaper every other model.

You may not feel cool now, but when models in a few years have twice the features for half the price, you will certainly feel like you've regained some of your esteem.

Zactly! Try that with a LED. Not gonna happen

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I like the way my Halides give me a great "Reef Farmers Tan" (just the back of my neck) all year round... it helps me stand out in a crowd.
It also makes it easy to pick out the other losers!
Keith.

Haha! Now that really is a unique new use for halides.

Great to see such a turnout so far.

I'd like to add that we fully welcome previous Solaris owners. Please come grieve!

Seeing a lot of ballasts for sale in the forums. Now I don't wanna jump to conclusions and get my hate on so I'm just going to assume they're upgrading to HEAVIER, HOTTER and NOISIER ballasts.

*thumbs up*

Careful Keith some may actually BE farmers :lol: