125 Gallon LED Light Change Over

[ponokareefer]

Originally Posted by clowny

WOW that is sick lighting for a whole tank for less then one fixture that would do half the tank. Can you do sunrise, sunset (lights start up from one side and move to the other while getting brighter throughout the day)? Thats the only feature I really want, thunderstorms would be cool but not needed. great job on a nice light fixture and reef tank

I have 3 timers that I was using on for my current fixture that I will hook each line into. The blue/red/green line will come on first, followed by the blue line, followed by the white line to simulate sunrise. Sunset will work in the opposite order. I can get a controller to run this system if I want to make it fancy.

I forgot to mention, I have 4 fans that will sit on top of the channels that I had used to cool my tank due to the MH's.

[ponokareefer]

Thank you to Martin for all of your help on this. Once I get my extensions, I will post pictures of the finished product on the tank.

[ponokareefer]

]I got my extensions on Friday and here are some pictures with LED's.

Red-Green-Blue line only:



Blue line only:



White line with 2 blue's:



All 3 together:

[ponokareefer]

A few closer shots:

[Beverly]

There seems to be a lot of colour in the red-green-blue photo. Maybe it's just a fluke of that one photo. Would you mind taking a few more shots of your tank with the red-green-blue lights only to see how things look? Thanks

[martinmcnally]

Cool. How do you like the final color look? Nice and blue I see. Do you noticed much color difference in the corals?

[ponokareefer]

Here is a couple closer ones with just the red-green-blue line with 12 total LED's.





Not the greatest photo's with the reflection. There is a lot of light given out by that line for some reason. I crawled up above the fixture to make sure that all the rest were off because there just seems to be too much light for that few of LED's.

[ponokareefer]

Originally Posted by martinmcnally

Cool. How do you like the final color look? Nice and blue I see. Do you noticed much color difference in the corals?

The final look is maybe a little too purple, but still awesome. My corals look a lot different(way better, and I just can't believe the color of my yellow tang. My frogspawn and hammer corals just pop where as before, they were almost brownish. All the corals/clams/anemones are fully open as well. No issues there what-so-ever so far.

Oh, and my bubbles are back on my RBTA's. I haven't seen those forever. Just amazing!

[Nano]

Hi I'm just wondering are those just the 1w leds? I see you have lenses on them, I'm planning on doing a larger tank in the future between 125-250 (havent decided yet) but am looking to go all led any tips?

[The Grizz]

These are all 3w LED's & from what I have been told the Reds & Greens are very bright & might have to be turned down a bit in order to get the corals just right.

Looks good PR, can't wait to get mine going now seeing yours.

One question though, is that where you are leaving your drivers? The only reason I ask is I have been told that they should be keeped as far away from the water as possible.