Who owns a Tek Light?

[Moogled]

Oh okay, that clears things up a bit.

The corals look fairly healthy, they just don't "reach" anymore so I think that's a good thing. I'm still waiting on the growth so I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if there's something I can do to help facilitate coral growth.

So far I just dose Aragomilk bi-weekly; no other additives into the tank.

When corals "reach" because they need more light, they can also look healthy, right? The Anthelia sure was reaching for the light and had extremely long stalks. Now they're at 25% of what they were at before.

Boggling.

[dreef]

I have an 8 tube Tek T5 on legs over a 70 gallon, i previously had a no name T5 fixture before,and there's no comparision.Everything is growing awesome and spreading like mad,even my zoos.Before i had zoos on the bottom,and they developed long streched stocks,now,nice and low,tight growth,even on the bottom.My rbta is up on the highest rockwork,but rather than being right on top,it prefers the side of the rock...too bright

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by dreef

Everything is growing awesome and spreading like mad,even my zoos.Before i had zoos on the bottom,and they developed long streched stocks,now,nice and low,tight growth,even on the bottom.

We had the same experience with our zoos and other corals once we switched to Tek T5 lights. Within a month everything looked better in our tank then it ever did with our 250w MH

[albert_dao]

It's funny, because Tek's are at the lower end of the high-end HOT5 products :P

Aquactinics and ATI Powermodules are out-of-this-world bright!

[Moogled]

No, it's not funny.

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Maybe I don't have enough corals to see a noticeable difference!

[LeeR]

i switched from a 70W mh to the 24" tek and it fried my Xenia and is doing a number on my mushrooms and zoas

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Crap. Guess I'll have to take it easy when my Tek arrives (and I'm going from PC!). Did you ease the corals into it? Put window screening over the tank, etc?