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You may be right, it's a great recommendation for most people. I don't think many would regret purchasing one when starting out.Reefbreeders , best light for the price
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You may be right, it's a great recommendation for most people. I don't think many would regret purchasing one when starting out.Reefbreeders , best light for the price
Heck to the yes!!! Waiting on reflector and digital ballast for new testing. Last magnetic all in one wasn't impressive.CMH’s!!!!
Thought they couldn't run on magnetic.. Some square wave nonsense.Heck to the yes!!! Waiting on reflector and digital ballast for new testing. Last magnetic all in one wasn't impressive.
I am in the same boat as your friend. I have researched lighting for well over 6 months and have reach out to numerous coral farms. I have came to the conclusion the T5 Hybrid is the way to go. I am ordering them in stages just because of the costs. My hybrid fixture gets here tomorrow and over the next two months I’ll add 3 XR 15’s gen 5 blues over my 125 gallon. I would highly suggest telling your friend to rent a par meter and expect to spend some time fine tuning the spacing. Don’t just wing it on the LEDS app. You can destroyed colonies quickly with to much power. Hope this helps.So I have a friend who’s about to drop 1,400 on a t5 light fixture with 2 Kessil A360X. I feel like that’s soooo much for money for just those 3 things. He says that’s what’s the best in the market.
I’m just wondering if he was lead the wrong way? Are there better lights for the same price or less? Is he making the best choice? I gotta look out for my fellow reefer so I’m wondering what you all think.
Is there something better? What’s your all’s perspective. He mainly has zoas and mushrooms. Some encrusting corals. Oh and a few anemones. For a 125g long tank
Have you checked out the pop bloom LEDs? It’s the most par for the $$ .I am in the same boat as your friend. I have researched lighting for well over 6 months and have reach out to numerous coral farms. I have came to the conclusion the T5 Hybrid is the way to go. I am ordering them in stages just because of the costs. My hybrid fixture gets here tomorrow and over the next two months I’ll add 3 XR 15’s gen 5 blues over my 125 gallon. I would highly suggest telling your friend to rent a par meter and expect to spend some time fine tuning the spacing. Don’t just wing it on the LEDS app. You can destroyed colonies quickly with to much power. Hope this helps.
You seem to have massive confusion between opinion that is cited repeatedly, and scientific evidence. Correlation is not causation.You might have experiences dancing for rain. I don't.
We are talking about results from hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people for more than 3 decades. We are talking about facts of physics shared in this forum, and from serious hobbyists in the past years around the globe. Some serious coral farmers! The guy who introduced LEDs in this hobby brings lots of facts about the subject too! People that actually have experiences with all types of lighting, including LEDs, but care about their results, and not about saving electricity, for example. People who know better.
We are NOT talking about those who bought their LEDs and need to convince themselves they invested in the best lighting just because they spend so much money to get those and that has to be the best no matter what! Or those who never saw nor had any experiences with halides and want to defend their LED fixtures just because. Not talking about those newbies that had been told that if those "YouTube channels" and "the best stores" are using, then that is officially the best. Not to mention those who love to bring some graphics to prove others wrong, but never actually had any experiences with reef tanks at all. Yes, we have that here too!
Please do your search about the subject and find out yourself!
Science should be the way to prove what we see happening in the first place, not isolate PAR as the main lighting subject or definition of good/bad lighting.
Your comparison shows how much you want to know about facts.
I don't think anyone here wants to dance for rains. They just want to have the best reef tank they could and IMO halides + T5s will get them more than half way there!
If we just lay our opinions here and stop trying to prove stuff against each other this thread could be better. My opinion won't change. I just want share the truth, also shared by many others. Are we all wrong? Did you even try?
If you like your LEDs please keep them. I'm sure you must be very happy with your results. I'm fine with that. Enjoy your tank. If one day you change for halides, you can come back here and thank me for saying that. I'm humble enough to be very happy for you. Many did that before and we are all friends.
Post your opinions in this thread and just have fun, because that is what this thread should be actually for!
perhaps if you were dancing in the rainy season that would be a fact.The most unscientific verse ever uttered...
Every time I dance, it rains. Therefore my dancing makes it rain.
My experience is that dancing makes it rain...therefore that is a fact, and you cannot argue with it
Worse is to use science to back up inexperience.You seem to have massive confusion between opinion that is cited repeatedly, and scientific evidence. Correlation is not causation.
Unfortunately when there is no empirical and scientific evidence to be produced, and simply opinion based on observation you can appear to be a little bit 'cultist'.
I'm more than happy with the mixed lighting system in use on my tank. None of which is based on science or inexperience.Worse is to use science to back up inexperience.
Be "happy" with your LEDs, man!
Some people would believe that to be the truth, then post it all over the internet as factperhaps if you were dancing in the rainy season that would be a fact.
I did t realize Icecap under performed so much compared tM80. When I ordered my new fixture Cayman Sun, ice cap was all that was available. Looking at the Hamilton websiteM80 is out of stock. Are they no longer manufactured?
It's complicated..I did t realize Icecap under performed so much compared tM80. When I ordered my new fixture Cayman Sun, ice cap was all that was available. Looking at the Hamilton websiteM80 is out of stock. Are they no longer manufactured?
You never get tired... enjoy your light.I'm more than happy with the mixed lighting system in use on my tank. None of which is based on science or inexperience.