LED Intensity

[Bblinks]

Originally Posted by Duker

Oh yeah, I wonder how long it took him to get them to 100%. Do u recall?

Couple of days but started off 18 inches awl then lowered to 8 inches month later.

[Aquattro]

Thanks Rich, sounds like a plan. I'll start with three and hope I keep the colors, and as budget allows, I can add units if needed. But for now, I'm stuck at 3. Property taxes coming up, and I have to budget for Costa Rica next winter

[Finisher604]

I have a 6 ft tank with mixed sps and some LPS. I am running only 2 ai Sol, I run the lights from 8am to 12am slowly ramping up.

At 5 pm my lights run at 55%white 75 both blues till 8pm any brighter and things get upset, i don't have a deep tank and have the lights about 10inch above water.

Everything is growing amazing in my opinion.

[Bblinks]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Thanks Rich, sounds like a plan. I'll start with three and hope I keep the colors, and as budget allows, I can add units if needed. But for now, I'm stuck at 3. Property taxes coming up, and I have to budget for Costa Rica next winter

I know how it feels Brad, just paid for $800 sewage and property tax is just around the corner. Some times I feel like I can even print it fast enough. Below is a picture of my tank's par reading with AI's on full blast, I used an apogee par meter. If you get a chance to get some par reading off your tank, maybe you can use it as a reference.



Just in case here is a link to melevsreef, he has radium 250 and 400 mh par reading there.

[Aquattro]

Rich, is this with the three, or after the addition of the others?

[Bblinks]

No, Thats with all 9. If you look at the picture, there are 2 dark strips which are the 2 braces on the tank. As you can see the par reading drops off dramaticlly as soon as you get on the outter circle of the light and thats why I am gonna get 3 more.

[Aquattro]

thx

[Bblinks]

My buddy Peter, apexfd who took my old tank(210) which is similar to yours but taller had 3 AI's running for a while, now he has put on an extra one because it was too dim for him. I will ask him to give you some feedbacks since your tanks are so close in demension.

[Aquattro]

Does he have any significant SPS in the tank that would compare to mine? To compare color retention?

[Bblinks]

He has lots of sps coral but not too many large colonies like yours. I am heading over there tonight, I can snap some pictures for you and post it lif you like. I just got a new camera (Thanks to Wayne's input)and its my first DSLR so don't expect any thing fancy.