Psychocircus91
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one more question. When running these on a seperate timer, is there anyway to have the main lights go off, and the blues stay on for a moonlight effect?
one more question. When running these on a seperate timer, is there anyway to have the main lights go off, and the blues stay on for a moonlight effect?
Yes. The fixture has a separate switch for both the whites and blues so set your timer when you want to have the whites and blues on/off.
Id personally rate the chinese leds between t5s and halides the higher end leds rating above halides goes in this order t5s , chinese leds, halides , brandname leds as an sps only keeper the chinese fixtures do not help sps retain color color is much brighter with a quality fixture lights are definately you get what you pay for ive done side by side text with a chipster acro same water dif light one under chinese one under radion after 2 months the chipster under chinese was a kinda brownish green with slight purple tips under radion the excact same coral off excact same colony was a bright green throughout with blue tips and the blue was 1/2" down the coral whereas chinese fixture purple tips were just only on the very tip
Side by side test* not text lol
For lps chinese fixtures will be fine not for sps you will get growth from chinese fixtures but youll never get as good a color
I have spectacular color on all my SPS corals. Not sure what your test showed, would love to see pictures of the test setup and results. I have seen claims like this but have never seen a problem with corals going brown in my system. Quite the opposite, I see very good growth and color. The coral colors can be enhanced with the addition of some red and cyan LEDs, something I do when building my own fixtures, but for basic growth the Chinese panels work fine.
What I see with high priced fixtures is useless lighting effects that just scare fish.
I have spectacular color on all my SPS corals. Not sure what your test showed, would love to see pictures of the test setup and results. I have seen claims like this but have never seen a problem with corals going brown in my system. Quite the opposite, I see very good growth and color. The coral colors can be enhanced with the addition of some red and cyan LEDs, something I do when building my own fixtures, but for basic growth the Chinese panels work fine.
What I see with high priced fixtures is useless lighting effects that just scare fish.
Never used them so no opinion.
And it wasnt the color being enhanced
the pigment within the corals tissue got brighter again this is just my opinion
These are subjective tests that don't take into account anything but the color the coral reflects back. I am after growth and health, not a black light poster. I have used and sold the expensive fixtures. Crees are nice LEDs and I use them in the fixtures I build. But for someone on a budget, spending twice as much or more is a big deal. Add some warm colored stunner strips and you can balance the lights to whatever you like. PAR is PAR.
When you are looking into the chinese type 120 watt LED panels there are ones with different bulbs. Some have 112 1-watt bulbs and others have 56 3-watt bulbs. I own 4 panels. 2 have the 1 watt bulbs. I dont have a par meter to test the difference but they could be the same output since they all pull the same wattage. I just bought a 90 gal thats 24" tall so i bought 2 panels with the 56x3w bulbs just to for the assurance that i can have sufficient lighting at all depths. Maybe the guys with the PAR meters can shed some light on that. There are so many out there now, not just taotronics. I bought mine used only a couple of months for $100/ea. I have 1 112x1w panel on a 36" 40gal breeder and have had good growth on SPS and LPS from end to end.