Jingleheimer
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I'm not familiar with that particular unit.
I have LED lighting on my Reef and have for a few years now but I built the light myself. LEDs are a topic of debate in the Reef world. Many people will say you have to have certain LEDs with certain wattage per LED. I have 42 3w Cree LEDs on my system and I've had great success with them. Again I built the setup myself. I've never looked at prefab LED units other than the very expensive EcoTech Radions.
Maybe someone here will have had some experience with the light you are looking at.
I don't have the cash flow for radions!
Thanks for yalls help!
I have about $200 I want to spend on a light.
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Using the lights bribo suggested would work. They are hanging lights though and if not hung properly can lead to looking trashy. If you do end up going with those absolutely do not run them at max level at first. Slowly raise light level over a week or 2.
Without mentioning the dimensions of the tank this can't be answered very well. I disagree with bigred. As long as its used on a 36inch tank it could easily handle LPS corals maaaaybee some SPS. However since you cannot control the led colors its a bad choice just from that alone. I personally like having blues on for 10 hrs and whites on in the middle for 7 hrs. This light seems to be all on all the time.
If you are really want low cost leds google this: "GU10 LED Build Thread (Chinese Ebay Lights)"
Using the lights bribo suggested would work. They are hanging lights though and if not hung properly can lead to looking trashy. If you do end up going with those absolutely do not run them at max level at first. Slowly raise light level over a week or 2.
Have you personally used those lights? They left shrooms reaching for light in a 10, directly beneath the light too. No way could a single one of those units could support sps.
A pair of par38s from reefkoi could also work for this tank, may not support sps everywhere but with strategic placing you could do it. The lights bribo mentioned are pretty much the best bang for the buck out there, and bent conduit painted matte black looks pretty clean IMO, and is a cheap effective way to mount them.
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Do you have a picture of these in use?
So I can get the hanging up picture..
Thanks for all the suggestions guys
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Do you have a direct link for these reefkoi's?
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