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Thanks for your response! I believe you must be enjoying your LEDs and what it doing for your tank.Yes. I will take my one Mitras 6300 to a 250MH Radium MH any day. IMO it way out performs the 250MH In every way. I'm an old school MH guy BTW. When I ran 250 MH's with actinics, I quickly went away from 250 MH's because it wasn't giving me the PAR I needed for certain SPS. So I went to 400W MH's with VHO actinics. It was the bomb btw.
Today I run Mitras 6300's, first generation 6100's upgraded pucks. Its basically like a 325MH to 350MH if there was such a thing for comparison with actinics. So the one fixture is better than a 250MH with actinics. The LED covers both fixtures in one and colors up corals better than a 250MH. Oh and it uses less power and can cover more spectrum than a halide, and I don't have to change bulbs. Been running fixtures of over 6 years now. No issues.
Its not as power full as a 400 MH that is why I'm running 4. The new 7206 fixtures will actually let you divert power from led's that you are not using to overdrive the other corals. I bet its pretty close to 400wMH if dialed in correctly on the right spectrum. I don't know, but from the success I'm having....I would have to say YEP!
I have ran MH's for years, T12's, T5, Power compacts, and T8's. So I have been there and done that.
I"m not telling you that this light is better than that light, but I know what I enjoy and its my Mitras! Hands down. I have over 40 colonies of SPS in my aquarium and they are thriving with no issues.
But the qualities and properties of both light systems aren't the same. What halides can offer using the right reflectors your LEDs wouldn't, right?
The spectrum and UV offered by a MH system can't be compared to any available LED in the market today. I hope you agree with that fact.
LED companies are trying to simulate T5 distribution for years, but they still lack in that respect.
I'm not saying that you can't grow your corals well with the LEDs you've got. I'm just trying to bring here the differences as facts.
Not really comparing tastes anymore.
I'm also trying to see the subject with a wider vision now...
Grandis.