180 gallon Lighting

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I have a standard 180 Gallon Reef that have had AI Vega over it four three years now. I am now noticing my PAR values decreasing slowly. I am looking to get a new LED lighting rig and up for recommendations of folks who have had their lighting units for over a year.

Any advice or input is much appreciated.
 

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I'm really curious, how much is your PAR falling off?

I've had 2 OceanRevive/EverGrow OR-IT2080 over my 180g sps& lps tank for 13 months now and the corals are healthy and growing just as good as they did when I had 1000w of MH and 160w of t5 over the tank. I do an 8 hour sunrise, 1 hour of midday at 80% and 40% and then an 8 hour sunset. I have a PAR meter and haven't seen any change in the PAR at all (but PAR meters are so sensitive it's hard to be really accurate).
 

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