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Old 01-12-2013, 04:18 PM
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also a great light and have always loved the illumina series
what fixtures have you run on your personal tank??
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Old 01-12-2013, 04:26 PM
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what fixtures have you run on your personal tank??

on my bonsai just the radions , weve had the illumina260 ,skyy light(?),marineland and sols on the other tank at my house. also some stunner strips for a while

i was a bit nervous on doing the switch to leds with my bonsais corals as theyve been under mh for so long and some of them are almost impossible to find so i finally decided on going ecotech for the bonsai , i added some vortechs and 2 x radions slowly over a couple months switiching out the outdated equiment.


did take home a vega for a week same with a razor when they came out but only had them up long enough to see how they looked.

at the store we are running kessils,mazzerras,razors,radions.

on the store display we will have 2 ghl's about to be set up on that tank and we have some radion pros coming for the store displays as well.
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Old 01-12-2013, 05:55 PM
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Lets see some pictures of your tanks. Interested on what you consider better or worse reefwars.
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Lets see some pictures of your tanks. Interested on what you consider better or worse reefwars.




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Old 01-12-2013, 08:25 PM
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Just want to see why you think radions are so much better. love to see a picture of your tank just for reference thats all.
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Here is a side by side the vegas are on the left g1 radions w/o tir lenses on the right.
the vegas are at %100 (no controller at the time) and the radions are at aprox %75 (still ramping up at the time)

I will add I ran the tank like this for a couple months and there was no noticable growth difference but the vegas ran at %100 all day while the Radions ran a custom profile.


****I'd also like to add my tank is much nicer and fuller now lol****
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Old 01-12-2013, 08:48 PM
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Here is a side by side the vegas are on the left g1 radions w/o tir lenses on the right.
the vegas are at %100 (no controller at the time) and the radions are at aprox %75 (still ramping up at the time)

I will add I ran the tank like this for a couple months and there was no noticable growth difference but the vegas ran at %100 all day while the Radions ran a custom profile.


****I'd also like to add my tank is much nicer and fuller now lol****
radions are noticeably brighter

radion g1 has better spread than ai sol

they do not need a controller------ edit*** (to run multiple lights)

bluetooth to wirelss eco tech products

touch sensor buttons( should be lcd but what ever ...)

slim profile

clean hanging kit

2 led pucks


thats just to name a few of the bonouses of g1 radions over sols, there are alot more especially if we start talking g2 over the g1 and pros over the g2

well see if ai comes out with anything new and whether or not they go par with ghl or ecotech but right now its not there in the vega.
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Just want to see why you think radions are so much better. love to see a picture of your tank just for reference thats all.

here is my tank journal it started off with sunpod 250w halide which is similiar to what it was in the 90g.

youll have to browse through the journal to see what the differences are , personally compared to halides with this tank the radions arnt quite as good as my halide was , spread wise the tank is darker , things at the bottom are just as happy as they were with the halides but the stuff on top of the tank is growing much faster since the switch.

i started at 30% and 10-12" above water level( i dont reccommend 8" )

im now comfortably at 60% peak during the day.

the switch over was a little hard on my thin fleshed corals like chalices, favias and some of my sps .

heres the link to my journal:

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...ghlight=bonsai



unfoprtunately i only have a camera phone for pictures so the quality isnt dslr, with all the money i spoend on corals you would think id have a good camera by now lol



heres a fts taken by sphelps and his dslr plus some close ups if it helps any










and some top downs taken with my phone:





















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What is this coral?


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