Before and after LED Growth

That's some really great growth..... C'mon Grumpy....sing it with me!

Originally Posted by Barbara

..........that's just crazy awesome growth!!!
and all of it is a result of your LED lights????

and love.

I'm sorry I didn't see the original post, especially page 2 where you fully describe what you did, what a fantastic post! I'm going to their site next to see what a 6' setup would cost me.

I asked you about your LED's because I too have looked at them a lot, listened to Sanjay at MACNA and reviewed his technical findings, then spoke with him for 20 minutes after his seminar where I (at that time) agreed with his belief that LED's were not far enough along to provide sufficient PAR and proper wavelengths to compare with the three (3) 400w 14k metal haliads I'm now using. I'm now hitting the bad part of summer with 96 degrees in my garage and having to run my tank chiller to keep the tank at 80F so its time for me to take a serious look again.

I'm hoping that the LED guys can provide me the specifics on both their white and blue LED's (wavelengths, power, etc..)

Great pictures by the way and a million thanks again.


Sincerely,
Grumpy

Originally Posted by FiReBReTHa

All my components were bought from reefledlights where bill did research and utilized sanjay.s studies on MH and found a combination with his premium cree leds of specific batches that lines up spectrum with a 20k radium which has had great success in the reefer world.

I love the phoenix 14k so I did a 2 to 1 mix of blues to white. . I also added a high noon xpg kit for additional growth spectrum.

Nope all 2011 photos

C heckmy signature for links to my build

(posted mobile)

Originally Posted by Grumpy Bass

I'm sorry I didn't see the original post, especially page 2 where you fully describe what you did, what a fantastic post! I'm going to their site next to see what a 6' setup would cost me.

I asked you about your LED's because I too have looked at them a lot, listened to Sanjay at MACNA and reviewed his technical findings, then spoke with him for 20 minutes after his seminar where I (at that time) agreed with his belief that LED's were not far enough along to provide sufficient PAR and proper wavelengths to compare with the three (3) 400w 14k metal haliads I'm now using. I'm now hitting the bad part of summer with 96 degrees in my garage and having to run my tank chiller to keep the tank at 80F so its time for me to take a serious look again.

I'm hoping that the LED guys can provide me the specifics on both their white and blue LED's (wavelengths, power, etc..)

Great pictures by the way and a million thanks again.


Sincerely,
Grumpy

Grumpy I am ecstatic that you know of, and have met Sanjay!

I want to see what he thinks of the LED's Bill carries and the spectrum curve they run in the end together Because Bill modeled the LEDs he chose on Sanjay's studies

for a 6'er take a peak at 3x 18s, if you run 400wMH look at 36 premium royal blues, 12x XPe cool whites and 12x high noon XPGs. If you need less power just reduce the quantity of LEDs. The drivers automatically adjust their output to accommodate the quantity of LEDs (as long as you meet their min/max)


Make a thread dedicated to your concept LED build and we can talk in that thread and kick ideas back and forth.

Originally Posted by FiReBReTHa

and love.

but of course!

Originally Posted by FiReBReTHa

Grumpy I am ecstatic that you know of, and have met Sanjay!

I want to see what he thinks of the LED's Bill carries and the spectrum curve they run in the end together Because Bill modeled the LEDs he chose on Sanjay's studies

for a 6'er take a peak at 3x 18s, if you run 400wMH look at 36 premium royal blues, 12x XPe cool whites and 12x high noon XPGs. If you need less power just reduce the quantity of LEDs. The drivers automatically adjust their output to accommodate the quantity of LEDs (as long as you meet their min/max)


Make a thread dedicated to your concept LED build and we can talk in that thread and kick ideas back and forth.

YES......................PLEASE do grumpy!!! that will be another definite thread I'd have to follow!

I have a new LED set-up on my 29 gallon, and I too have experienced a great increase in the growth of my corals, especially my zoanthids. LED's are amazing!!

Which light do you have Lady?

Originally Posted by chris&barb

Which light do you have Lady?

Marineland brand with 10k white and 460nm actinic blue, 1watt each.

Originally Posted by LadyOfIreland

Marineland brand with 10k white and 460nm actinic blue, 1watt each.

I looked at the 48" ones and was reading that they are equivalent to two 48 T5HO bulbs.

I need some LED set ups for the frog tanks... T8's are making my bromeliads loose color. My T5 HO bulbs do great but put out a lot of unwanted heat.

check out both my LED builds in my sig for further temptation

Originally Posted by FiReBReTHa

(from those old basketball commercials)

"From the sandbed, nothin but net"

Lineaged Tyree Pink Lemonade
5-01-2011


5-29-2011

7-01

wow that's some good growth!!!!

Very nice color and growth..

Tank specs?
Depth of tank?
Redox (if possible)?
Par?
How deep are these sps?
How high off the water are your LED's?

more about my setup in my build thread.
FiReBReTHa's Rimless 120g Tank

Fire what LED set up would you recommend for a 120ga 24"x48" and a 29g?