Gregcoyote
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FTMMWS said:Yes This,very impressive,,love the mushroom carpet..Kinda what i want in mine someday..
I'd love to see a vid of your scrubber system too..How long have you been running it?
Almost 20 years.
FTMMWS said:Yes This,very impressive,,love the mushroom carpet..Kinda what i want in mine someday..
I'd love to see a vid of your scrubber system too..How long have you been running it?
carey said:Great looking tank! I've never seen soo many mushrooms in one place before. lol
ccCapt said:Tank looks great! That's quite the crop of anthellia you got there.
Gti_Leo said:i beg to differ those are equivillent to a 120w MH fixture. its not all just about hthe lumens they output or the lumens that the MH. LEDs are a tiny point light which means the optics that are developed for them are much more persice and are able to focus all the LEDs power into a set area, where the MH are so big that the optics can only light a set space at a set power. most MH are used to light up a 24x24 area while a cree LED is used to light up abotu 15-19 square inches which is enough to keep SPS and clams. like a T5HO lamp individually reflected is designed to like up 3 inches ok tank along the length of the lamp which again is good enough for SPS and clams.
MH are out dated in my opinion, their optics are not able to harness all the light output that they are capable of and even if they were they would be stupid inefficiant and most likely would never be used
Reefality said:Well the bar has just been set higher yet again. That coral growth is awesome! Everything seems to be thriving.
Gregcoyote said:As we say, "the proof is in the pudding." I always wondered where that saying came from, but you get the idea. I am going to get more scientific about it as observation of coral growth can have a lot of different factors. But the results seem to be that you don't have to spend a fortune to have the advantages of LED and this trend will only accelerate from here.
Dary421 said:Greg.,. As you know,...I'm now a total believer in the LED's myself,...I've had my LED's up and running for a few months now and I can honestly say that everything seems to be flourishing beautifully,.... I realize that a good quality fixture is a little on the pricy side up front but are probably a money saver in the long haul,..I for one would not hesitate for even a second to recommend them to a friend,
Even my lfs buddy who hated them has started to come around and no Longer bad mouths them,... " ... The times ,they are a changing" ,.. ( thanks mr.dylan ) ...
Gregcoyote said:If you have the money, these more advanced fixtures are dimable, have built in timing circuits and uses fewer higher wattage emitters, like Cree. But the Cree LEDs had cooling problems early on, like most things. But the newer US fixtures seem rock solid. I tend to like a simpler approach, which the Chinese are famous for. There were also quality concerns that I have tried to address. The bottom line was price vs effectiveness. I didn't need all the extra features.
Dary421 said:Greg ,.my "stark" fixtures uses the Cree LED's and are dimable and I'm not really concerned where they're made ,...They just work fine for me ,... Pm me a link to your LED's I'd like to chek'em out ,...thanks,Dary
Gregcoyote said:New video on YouTube of the old fish tank;
If YouTube takes it down it may be because of the music. I will stream it off my web site tomorrow for a while.
This is a first edit, so some scenes will be improved and the music track tightened up. Got bored this afternoon, this is the result.
Sorry for the scratches...kind of hard to tear something like this apart to polish the acrylic.