390G Zoanthid & SPS Reef System

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

nice, looking forward to how these bad boys look. lol chem class, just finished my lab...

Ever have Diana Garrett? If no, consider yourself lucky. That lady made like 2 people cry in my last lab class, evil evil lady...

Originally Posted by asylumdown

I am rather excited to see these new lights. I'm very, very, very strongly considering lighting my entire tank with them.

ETA: also, are you at the UofC? I'm here right now reading your thread instead of reading this massive volume on Ecological planning in an urban context. #fail for school.

So far couldn't be happier with them, the design is amazing and the versitility is unreal! The program is a little hard to get used too but all in all they are great pieces of equipment.

Who wants to read THE MERCK MANUAL or THE BURGESS MANUAL when you can read my reef manual . No though @ MRU.

[Zoaelite]

LEDS:




FTS:


Few new zoas under the lights:










Managed to grab a quick actinic while using the demo mode (Shows all the single modes in sequence), I will try and grab a few more when It swaps over tonight.

[Zoaelite]

Heyyy Daryll, wanna make a bet ?




Even though I'm pretty sure your right on the ORA Supernatural :\

[asylumdown]

think you'll end up going full LED at any point? what's your impression of them compared to your halides?

[carnut]

How big is the lighting footprint? Same as your halides?

[Myka]

I miss my Darth Mauls...yours look sweet. Mine were up to 7 polyps when they got buried in the sand by my Jawfish.

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by Myka

I miss my Darth Mauls...yours look sweet. Mine were up to 7 polyps when they got buried in the sand by my Jawfish.

Jawfishhess/ Sand-bury-my-zoa-gobies are both banned from ma reef for that exact reason . Big props to Steve up @ RCE, he has quite the store up there and the guy is great to deal with. Always thought Maul polyps were a bit bigger but these things are tiny!

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by carnut

How big is the lighting footprint? Same as your halides?

The halide system used 3 150W's with 4 80W T5's, these are rated as 250W of halide each. In all at max intensity they are far brighter than the halides are and appear to cover more area.

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

think you'll end up going full LED at any point? what's your impression of them compared to your halides?

Eventually i would love to ditch the rear halide system, 6 of these fixtures costs around $5200 though so It won't be happening any time soon. All in all I'm already in love with these things, the color spectrum and versatility absolutely blows the MH/T5 combo out of the water.

Funny enough the tank dropped to 75°F yesterday as the heaters were turned way down (The metal halides provided enough heat to keep the tank warm). Fixed that so the tank should be running around 78°F today.

As far as growth goes only time will tell, these things do make for VERY easy reaquascaping compared to the previous fixture.

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Eventually i would love to ditch the rear halide system, 6 of these fixtures costs around $5200 though so It won't be happening any time soon. All in all I'm already in love with these things, the color spectrum and versatility absolutely blows the MH/T5 combo out of the water.

Funny enough the tank dropped to 75°F yesterday as the heaters were turned way down (The metal halides provided enough heat to keep the tank warm). Fixed that so the tank should be running around 78°F today.

As far as growth goes only time will tell, these things do make for VERY easy reaquascaping compared to the previous fixture.

Awesome, so you think 6 would be enough for your tank dimensions? The tank that Kevin at RCC has in process for me is almost the same dimensions as yours and I'm hoping to hide them in the budget for the construction of the house