Best T5 LED Hybrid or Combo? Opinions and Pictures Welcome!

[MoKan Reefer]

In the next few months I will be upgrading to a custom 6' long x 3' wide x2' tall 270 gallon.

So I'm looking into either buying 4 radion xr30 pros which I would run front to back and add either 2 x 36" or 1 x 5' aquatic life t5 combo fixture with (making brackets to incorporate the radions going front to back won't be an issue) or possibly looking into the 60" Giesemann Aurora or even possibly a 60" ATI T5 LED Wifi Powermodule Hybrid if I could find an 8 bulb version instead of just the 4 bulb like BRS currently carries.

Would love some other's thoughts, esperiences, suggestions, and opinions and for those who currently use a t5 LED hybrid or combo, please post pics! I'd be very interested in seeing!

Thanks in advance!

 

[scuzy]

2 x 36 " fixture be good. I run 2x36" with 4x radion xr30 pro and 2x xr15 pro

 

[MoKan Reefer]

What size tank is that? Looks amazing!

 

[scuzy]

What size tank is that? Looks amazing!

Only a 210 72" x 24" x 30"

 

[MoKan Reefer]

Only a 210 72" x 24" x 30"

Nice! Definitely like the blue and color pop! I'm not much on the overly white look personally. I like how the colors pop with the radion/t5 combo you have going there

 

[Joel B in FL]

I have a 60” ATI power module on my 72x24x24. I have had it almost two years now. I do like it, my only issue is that the internal clock loses time. It seems to lose two minutes or so a month. It’s easy enough to reset but it is something I wish was better.

 

[MoKan Reefer]

The time issues would drive me insane lol. I'm OCD and have went through 4 ramp times on the reefbrite strips I have for the current setup we have because they started losing time and I got tired of resetting and resetting so that's something that might be a deal breaker if it's a common issue with ATI.

I love the ATI t5s but have gotten bored with the chalkiness of just using t5s personally

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

I run an 8 bulb t5 (sunblaze) and dual orphek or120 bars. One sky blue, one uv. 6 ati blue+ and 2 ati coral plus. Very happy with my results so far since changing my lights.
Led only:

All bulbs w/ orange filter (iphone8):

 

[MoKan Reefer]

I run an 8 bulb t5 (sunblaze) and dual orphek or120 bars. One sky blue, one uv. 6 ati blue+ and 2 ati coral plus. Very happy with my results so far since changing my lights.
Led only:

All bulbs w/ orange filter (iphone8):

Very nice! We already run 6 t5s and 3 Reefbrite xho strips over our current 150

I like it but miss the shimmer and ability to control the look that we had with actual LED modules