Ecotech Marine’s Radion XR30w wins the 2011 Reef Builders LED showdown

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by nanomano

lol wow this thread is getting interesting

Kein, can I have some popcorn?

Useless post....

[Aquattro]

Guys, let's just do the "agree to disagree" thing, ok?

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by cale262

Noob feature??? what's that?

It's a feature that someone who's "new" to the hobby or not in the hobby at all would think is cool, when in fact it's a novelty and pointless.

For examples: lightning storm. All your friends that don't know much about reef tanks would say "wow, that's so amazing".....

[doch]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

It's a feature that someone who's "new" to the hobby or not in the hobby at all would think is cool, when in fact it's a novelty and pointless.

For examples: lightning storm. All your friends that don't know much about reef tanks would say "wow, that's so amazing".....

It's been the opposite in my world. Every person that I've demonstrated the lightning storms to has looked at me like there's something wrong. Then when I explain, several have asked if the fish are harmed by this. Uhhh.... pretty sure there is lightning in nature.

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by doch

It's been the opposite in my world. Every person that I've demonstrated the lightning storms to has looked at me like there's something wrong. Then when I explain, several have asked if the fish are harmed by this. Uhhh.... pretty sure there is lightning in nature.

Ive had people ask if it's doing that cuz the bulbs are burning out.
Lol

[Zoaelite]

I agree with the whole BS Reef Builders scandal, regardless I own 6 of the Radions and have had improved growth in color over the last 2 months (compared to my halides/t5 combo). Marko your seriously wrong on your interpretation of peoples reactions, again like previously stated if I dropped 5 grand on lighting and thought it was garbage I would not hesitate to say so.

The results speak for themselves, these are on the sand bed of my 22" tank with the Radions mounted about 8" above the surface.

Got these paly's on 11-03-2011, added the Radions about 3 days after this.


This is a 2 month growth shot.


Take a look at the back ground corals too, easy to notice growth all around.

[MarkoD]

Why am I having different results with my radion. A month with ai sols and everything was good. I put a radion on the right sideof my tank and kept ai sols on the left. I have my sols at 90% power and radion at 65% and wall my Zoe's under the radion have been closed for about a week now. I can't even tell if they're alive.

Last night i put radion on the far left and moved a sol to the far right. I'm gonna give it a week to see if anything rebounds

Originally Posted by zoaElite

I agree with the whole BS Reef Builders scandal, regardless I own 6 of the Radions and have had improved growth in color over the last 2 months (compared to my halides/t5 combo). Marko your seriously wrong on your interpretation of peoples reactions, again like previously stated if I dropped 5 grand on lighting and thought it was garbage I would not hesitate to say so.

The results speak for themselves, these are on the sand bed of my 22" tank with the Radions mounted about 8" above the surface.

Honestly I'm jealous of your tank and your results. But can not recreate the same results with my radion

Got these paly's on 11-03-2011, added the Radions about 3 days after this.


This is a 2 month growth shot.


Take a look at the back ground corals too, easy to notice growth all around.

[MarkoD]

Also I never intended to come across as saying that radions are garbage. I'm just saying that from my limited experience I've noticed more benefit from 2 ai sols than with 1 radion

[cale262]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

Why am I having different results with my radion. A month with ai sols and everything was good. I put a radion on the right sideof my tank and kept ai sols on the left. I have my sols at 90% power and radion at 65% and wall my Zoe's under the radion have been closed for about a week now. I can't even tell if they're alive.

Last night i put radion on the far left and moved a sol to the far right. I'm gonna give it a week to see if anything rebounds

Maybe you have too much light coming from the Radion?...I went from a 200W PS BP LED fixture, to the two Radions...I ran the PS @ 90%, I put the Radions over the tank initially at 90% @ the same height and burnt a couple coral right away...I now run My Radions at a max Of 60% for about 3 hrs a day... everything is growing fast and happy.

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

Why am I having different results with my radion. A month with ai sols and everything was good. I put a radion on the right sideof my tank and kept ai sols on the left. I have my sols at 90% power and radion at 65% and wall my Zoe's under the radion have been closed for about a week now. I can't even tell if they're alive.

Those are peculiar results as the PAR test's I have read rank the AI to be higher than the Radion (Having the Radion @ a lower intensity should only compound this effect). If less light is getting to the zoas then they should become more expanded, they shouldn't close due to photo shock.

Anything else change in the tank or anything that could be irritating them? Have any photos?

Gah, I need a PAR meter to get some actual numbers here as what the box say's and what others are measuring seem to be different.