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[Funky_Fish14]

Lol Brett, Looking good!

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Lastlight's New Light



Cheers,

Chris

[lastlight]

Installed my new Kessil a150w Sky Blue tonight and I officially love my LED lit tank! Absolutely zero colour banding and the colour temperature to my eyes is somewhere extremely close to that of the old 150w halide that was in here. Between 11 and 12k I'd say. Looks very natural to my eyes with barely any blue. Perhaps just a smidgen dimmer looking than the halide with a few more shadowy spots up near the top in the back but EVERY last colour in the corals looks improved and the shimmer is incredible. I need to make a screen top now... I'm rolling the dice for a few days with my neon goby but so far he's lived exclusively on the sandbed from what I've observed.

Besides the corals, clowns and neon goby which I managed photos of I've also got:

- 2 peppermint shrimp (who are starting to mow down my aiptasia)
- pistol shrimp and yellow shrimp goby pair

I'm on the lookout for a tailspot now but won't pull the trigger until my mesh top is in place.

Here's some pics! Some are fairly crappy but they'll be handy to track growth later on blah blah blah. A big thank-you to SteveConn who was super kind in giving me back a clipping of my beloved purple gorg. Time to grow that sumbeatch back!

[riceboy]

Dude is that blue clove I see in your tank.

[Dez]

What happened to "I'm going to stick with halides cause LEDs suck" (my paraphrase of you and your thoughts)

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by riceboy

Dude is that blue clove I see in your tank.

That's Kien's way of welcoming me back to the hobby. Freebie Pests FTW! (thanks btw)

Originally Posted by Dez

What happened to "I'm going to stick with halides cause LEDs suck" (my paraphrase of you and your thoughts)

Even a moderately warm day outside caused my temperature to hit 82 or 83 with the canopy and heater that happens to also glow lol. Decided to take the plunge mostly due to that. The cannon style LEDs have some of the spirit of a halide while running cool. Time will tell how this teeny 35W wonder performs but my needs are a lot more modest these days.

[Leah]

Sexy tank you got going there.

[mseepman]

Welcome to the LED side...the tank is looking great! So glad to have you back on here.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

I honestly think a tank of this size is begging for LED's of some kind.

Can I gloat a little bit now?

[riceboy]

lol nice, its just a matter of time till ur tank is full of them lol. i'm just waiting on when the sps bug will bite you again lol.

[kien]

I love your torch!

Let me know if your cloves don't make it. There's plenty more where they came from!

Seriously tho, am I the only one on canreef that actually likes clove polyps?! :Lol: Fuzzy purple on rocks is prettier than brown IMO. Yes they have taken over some rocks but they do not irritate any corals that ive noticed. Mine cloves are always outcompeted when other corals (sps/lps) start encrusting on their territory.