Who makes a 72 inch LED fixture?

[Tkey3425]

I have a 180 gallon and want to switch from my MH to LEDs. I sold all oft hard coral and high lighting corals and am keeping my softies. I want the ability to keep hard corals again in the future so what LEDs should I use.

 

[furrymurray]

I have a 210 gallon with three radions gen 2 on it. I love these lights! I have only had them for a week so I cant say how well the corals grow under them yet. But I do not have any shaded spots and the light is very easily reaching the bottom. The only negative thing I can say is I had problems programming the lights because their website was having issues. So I had them on manual lights until the website was working good the next day.

 

[Tkey3425]

I have a 210 gallon with three radions gen 2 on it. I love these lights! I have only had them for a week so I cant say how well the corals grow under them yet. But I do not have any shaded spots and the light is very easily reaching the bottom. The only negative thing I can say is I had problems programming the lights because their website was having issues. So I had them on manual lights until the website was working good the next day.

Yeah but $650 a fixture is a little steep for me haha. I bought the coralife elite MH fixture about 7 years ago and would have to sell it first anyway.

 

[furrymurray]

I have used aqua illumination Vegas on a 75 gallon. They are pretty good but it didnt have as good of a spread as the radions do.

 

[furrymurray]

Oh and i will mention this about the vegas. The red and green lights looked funny to me so I never used those colors. So If I remember correctly you can buy them with outthe red and green and they are cheaper.

 

[Tkey3425]

How many Vegas would I need? It's a standard 72x24x24

 

[furrymurray]

It says each fixture has a 2 ft by 2 ft spread so I would say three. The only thing i noticed on my 75 was a little shadowing near the braces at the top of the tank. My daughter has the Sol super blue and loves them on her takl

 

[Tkey3425]

Ill check them out tonight for sure. Ill finally remember what it's like to have a normal power bill haha.

 

[Ericwm]

RapidLED has a 180 gallon kit for $900. It requires a bit of assembly but I love the end result on mine.

 

[Tkey3425]

RapidLED has a 180 gallon kit for $900. It requires a bit of assembly but I love the end result on mine.

Ill check that one too. Will it grow heavy light corals?

 

[Ericwm]

I found this on another thread on this forum,

"with the cree LEDs that rapid led sells, they recommend 1 led for every 20-22 squar inches of surface area for LPS and softies and one per 16-18 squar inches for SPS and clams".

I believe at that you can support up to clams with the kit I mentioned.

 

[Tkey3425]

Would the taotronics be suitable? If so what model and how many?

 

[Jmkb02]

I have a 72" 180 and these Taos are impressive and have def Ben a big change for me. I have 3 over my tank, replaced 2-250 mh and 1-150 mh. I bought the dimmable ones and all my coral has taken very well to them. Plus I have noticed a huge difference in heat and my utility bill.

 

[Tkey3425]

I have a 72" 180 and these Taos are impressive and have def Ben a big change for me. I have 3 over my tank, replaced 2-250 mh and 1-150 mh. I bought the dimmable ones and all my coral has taken very well to them. Plus I have noticed a huge difference in heat and my utility bill.

Send me a link to the ones you have please. My power bill in my new house went up almost $150 a month when I moved my tank here.