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Originally Posted by reefwars
How about wild acropora fresh off the boat any advice?
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I've got a few wild acropora colonies under my radions, it took them the better part of a year to a) decide what colour they were going to be and b) start growing. It might be true that the acclimation period under different lights would be shorter, but all my wild colonies are doing well and quite surprisingly beautiful now.
I would agree that one of the secrets of success is more fixtures per area than might be recommended, but when you're talking about a 900-1200 fixture that gets pricey fast.
I'll also say that under my radions, entire clades of LPS bleach to death and I don't even bother with things like chalices anymore. I'm sure I could adjust the program for them specifically, as under a kessil (which had no red, no green, and a different ratio of white to blue) they recover beautifully - so it's not LEDs per se, but it makes me sad when I see T5 or halide lit tanks that are growing baller SPS right next to beautiful, shimmering open brains and crazy rainbow chalices. I feel like with the radions I'm having to make a choice between one kind of coral over another.
My next set of lights will probably be the ATI hybrid fixture unless something awesome sauce happens in the LED world before then.
I keep wondering where Ecotech is going to go with the radion, obviously the radion pro won't be the last iteration, but while it was pretty obvious that they were going to come out with a fixture with UV, I'm not sure where they can go now.