8 inches off the surface, 16 inches of water at the deepest. 20 inch wide tank. 2 AI primes
Nothing seems to be particularly upset and I think my color is pretty good even for lower light corals.
My theory is all the crazy colored SPS colors you see all have something in common. Super strong lighting.
Those are some nice colonies. Do people argue that that Primes can't grow corals? That would be a dumb argument. I think they are among the best selling salt lights.
The attitude I have seen on here and other forms and generally online from some of the snobs is the primes are entry level only good for softies in LPS you’ll never grow decent Sps with these lights. If you’re going to go LED and be serious about it it’s Radion’s or nothing. Maybe it’s because these people are trying to justify spending thousands of dollars on lights. There was a guy on here asking questions and starting out and he was told by several people start with the primes but upgrade to something else before you start buying SPS cause they will slowly starve. Of course most of these people talk a big game but never Actually show pictures of their tank (I feel if you give advice prove you can back it up). I even played dumb at LFS and they went off about how crappy they are and you can’t be serious about growing colonies unless you have halide or Radions. Of course before I left I showed them my tank which looked better than anything on display on the floor and they did not believe I only had primes on my tank. I think to a lot of people in this hobby price equates to quality and since they are one of the cheapest out there they can’t be any good. I just wanted people to see that you can grow killer sticks with just the Prime 16’s you don’t need to spend so much on lighting to get great results. I think tanks now a days are super over lit. My primes are turned way down
