sps lighting

[Slyguy00]

Have you seen Rich or Ryans tank?? Looks like LEDs work great to me. But I understand what your sayin. Each to there own

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Slyguy00

Have you seen Rich or Ryans tank?? Looks like LEDs work great to me.

Rich's tank is the one that inspired me to give up on LED and go T5. His T5 frag tank had better colors than the LED display tank! Same corals, same system, different lights. Nobody says LED don't work, they just don't work as well

[Slyguy00]

I think thats a matter of opinion. It seems to be almost 50/50 for led and T5. Im just speaking from my personal preference, but compared to my leds Im just not getting the same colour as i had before. I won't deny the growth with T5 is great. I just really don't like the lack of options and control, as well as spectrum. Since swapping to T5 all my zoas that were crazy coloured have faded drastically. My sps seems to love the T5. But with the LED everything seemed brighter and happier as a whole in my tank. Just my personal preference though. Opinions are like a**holes, everybody's got one.

[Aquattro]

I guess my opinion and observations are limited strictly to SPS. I've never kept zoas or other colorful LPS. I found growth the same with LED vs T5, but color tones of SPS display better with T5. In Rich's tank, it wasn't a matter of opinion at all, one piece in particular was a solid color under LED, about 5 different tones under the T5. I found, with the same piece, I got the same results when going to T5. Yes, I miss some of the function of LED, although spectrum isn't one of them. Once set, I left it at a color I found pleasing. Dimming would be a nice feature to have back though.
All that being said, if I could, I would go back to MH if I could manage the evaporation

[Slyguy00]

Yea I can't argue with that, but it could also be certain corals in particular do better under T5 or LED. It seems every tank I see has varied results. Iv deff seen some impressive tanks on both types of lighting. If the price of the hybrids wasn't so insane that would deff be the route I would go.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Slyguy00

If the price of the hybrids wasn't so insane that would deff be the route I would go.

If I were to do it all over, I would go that route. Hell, that's what I spent on AI's anyway! If only I could figure out a way to deal with humidity without spending a big bag of money...lol

[Slyguy00]

Yea I guess depending how many ai's you need I guess it almost works out the same. This is definitely a "you gotta pay to play" kinda hobby