What you can do for setting your lights up with this very nice. Not real difficult to sort out but you need to be ready to do a little math. I think they got in a hurry to get this model out. In less than 10 days I had 5 light strips burn out. I called them and was told I would get replacements right away. 4 weeks later(still waiting) I called again letting them know I had 2 more lights out and I wasn't happy having 2/3s of a light. Replacements arrived about 5 days later. Holidays was probably the reason but I don't want to hear right away and wait 6 weeks. I'm over it.
I'm still not sure about the light. Its not in its final position and is temporally hanging over the tank. Right now I am getting a lot of shadowing but a few things are liking that. Rics, most softies and the LPS are hiding in the shadows. The LPS seem to want to mid tank or lower. The Candy Cane I have isn't happy anywhere in the tank. I have 2 10 inch yellow Fiji....one likes being at the surface and the other wants to be at the bottom. The clams.....one seems happy(enough to spawn and turn 600g so cloudy you couldn't see the back of the display) and the other is wondering all over the place. LPS is confusing so far. I have a purple bottle brush that is growing like a weed with nice color and a couple of other acros that are showing nice color. Had a couple of acro frags die within 2 days. I have bleached some cap (green and purple) and killed a red in about 2 days.
I have the lights turned down to about 75% to prevent bleaching.
I like the way the light looks. I like the way it works. I think I have a lot to learn about the thing and what the corals really want and like.
My biggest concern so far is the heat or lack of heat. The light produces no heat for the tank. I am running 1100 watts of heaters to keep the tank at 77.
The saga continues.....
Scott
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