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Old 06-04-2012, 03:58 AM
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Brad, I wasn't getting spotlighting, but rather 3 faint cone effects with just running 3. With the DIYs, it eliminated that.

You are familiar with my tank. You know that my highest rock is 12" below the water surface. Even now I run my SOLs at 60% and am still getting great colours. I started my LEDs at 60% and still bleached out some of my coral but was able to recover them, it just looked horrible during the recovery period. Just wanted to advise you based on experience.

Hope this helps. At 60% I don't think it looks dark. But I'll tell you one thing, when I switched over to LEDs 15 months ago, I regretted at first because it's such a different look compared to halides. The halides looked brighter and more like the sun. But now I love em. It grew on me I guess. Sorry for the rant.
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You can borrow my module until your other ones come in. might help maintain the colour
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You can borrow my module until your other ones come in. might help maintain the colour
Thanks Jon, but I'm just going to order right away. If I need to, I can borrow 3 from Japarto and give him mine when they get in.
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You are familiar with my tank. You know that my highest rock is 12" below the water surface. Even now I run my SOLs at 60% and am still getting great colours. I started my LEDs at 60% and still bleached out some of my coral but was able to recover them, it just looked horrible during the recovery period. Just wanted to advise you based on experience.
I'll take that under advisement I suppose I'll get used to it, but when you first see it, it's like "what's wrong with your tank??" lol
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Ok, three more lights added, and I'm happy with it so far. I only got a brief glimpse of the full group on at 80% while playing with the programming, but very happy with the coverage. And with 6, I may even keep them below 100 for a few days
I'll post some pics as soon as I can get time, see what the color looks like to the camera.
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Glad to see you bought some more
Sorry to hear you had to buy some more
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Ya, me too

It's 5am, and even the moonlight coverage is better, so I think this should work out fine.
Now I'm just hoping my rail system can hold 40 pounds of light
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are you on the ichiban/college student diet now or did you sell a kidney?
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are you on the ichiban/college student diet now or did you sell a kidney?
I'm self sufficient. I removed the kidney and will eat that until I pay the lights off
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