Great video. My tank is 48x48x24. Im running two T5 fixtures for a total of 8 T5 bulbs and between the banks of T5 fixtures, I have two 24 inch Reef Breeders Photon V2s. The Light fixtures hang about 13-inches above the water surface. I am getting just shy of 300 PAR 12-inches deep into the tank. I feel like I need to either replace the Photon V2s or add some additional LED strips to bump up the PAR/spectrum. Thoughts?? I have a mixed reef tank with Acros, Euphilia, Zoas, and some nems. Thoughts?? I think I did a pretty good job on the canopy. Its a basic box canopy with 2x2s. I put the light fixtures on stainless steel drawer sliders. When I need to replace the T5 bulbs or clean the fixtures, I just pull the fixture out the side of the canopy.
For quite a few years now I have tried to run a bare, glass bottom reef aquarium. After having little to no success (defined by problems with nuisance algae, coral that just doesn't thrive, my amphipods, isopods, and copipods have died off, coralline algae doesn't grow, and soft corals don't thrive either) I've decided to tear down my 75 gallon reef aquarium and plumb it inline with a 50 gallon aquarium gallon. The 75 will be just the rock (not much of "live rock any more) and the 50 will get a layer of sand, some fresh live rock and the few remaining soft corals. The ATI T5 fixture will get moved over to the 60 and we'll see what happens. I'm doing this because I'll be moving in about 24 months and want to move my soft corals into a smaller aquarium. Years ago I used metal halide lights and had awesome success. When they started being phased out I changed over to LEDs and all of my clams color faded then they slowly died. I ran the LEDs on max intensity too. I've now been using T5 lighting with better success but nothing like metal halide lights. So... back to a sand bottom and some fresh live rock to try one last time with the T5s. I still don't have much faith in LED lighting, the price is not justified for getting no results. I still have a lot of heartburn from losing dozens of pieces of hard coral to LED lights so I'm going with a softie tank. Any recommendations or comments on brands and settings that you've had success with would be appreciated. Thank you Melev!
What happend to all the acropora? You had so many.
Great video. My tank is 48x48x24. Im running two T5 fixtures for a total of 8 T5 bulbs and between the banks of T5 fixtures, I have two 24 inch Reef Breeders Photon V2s. The Light fixtures hang about 13-inches above the water surface. I am getting just shy of 300 PAR 12-inches deep into the tank. I feel like I need to either replace the Photon V2s or add some additional LED strips to bump up the PAR/spectrum. Thoughts?? I have a mixed reef tank with Acros, Euphilia, Zoas, and some nems.
Thoughts??
I think I did a pretty good job on the canopy. Its a basic box canopy with 2x2s. I put the light fixtures on stainless steel drawer sliders. When I need to replace the T5 bulbs or clean the fixtures, I just pull the fixture out the side of the canopy.
Hi sir , how many % of white do you recommend to run on intensity?
For quite a few years now I have tried to run a bare, glass bottom reef aquarium. After having little to no success (defined by problems with nuisance algae, coral that just doesn't thrive, my amphipods, isopods, and copipods have died off, coralline algae doesn't grow, and soft corals don't thrive either) I've decided to tear down my 75 gallon reef aquarium and plumb it inline with a 50 gallon aquarium gallon. The 75 will be just the rock (not much of "live rock any more) and the 50 will get a layer of sand, some fresh live rock and the few remaining soft corals. The ATI T5 fixture will get moved over to the 60 and we'll see what happens.
I'm doing this because I'll be moving in about 24 months and want to move my soft corals into a smaller aquarium.
Years ago I used metal halide lights and had awesome success. When they started being phased out I changed over to LEDs and all of my clams color faded then they slowly died. I ran the LEDs on max intensity too. I've now been using T5 lighting with better success but nothing like metal halide lights. So... back to a sand bottom and some fresh live rock to try one last time with the T5s.
I still don't have much faith in LED lighting, the price is not justified for getting no results. I still have a lot of heartburn from losing dozens of pieces of hard coral to LED lights so I'm going with a softie tank.
Any recommendations or comments on brands and settings that you've had success with would be appreciated. Thank you Melev!
Trying to get rid of pest!
Blue LEDs are the same
I’ve been using blue led bulbs of of Amazon for years
They grow coral
Gwt rid of the Dino’s in my main display. Also figure out why my 80w t5 Sunpower is not putting out the power it should be
Why are the led producers not using the "Emerson effect"?, to much algae growth, or did they just miss this data?