How many LIGHTS are you using and your FAVORITE brand?

[rtparty]

48*24*24 120g. 2 Reef Brite halides running Hamilton 20k bulbs. I also have 2 Blue Plus T5s over the tank for dusk/dawn.

24*24*20 50g. 1 Coral Care Gen 2.

Upcoming 72*36*22 250g peninsula will run 3x250w Reef Brite halides with 2 XHO bars.

 

[revhtree]

I am running (6) Radion Pro G4 LED lights on my 6ft x 3ft tank.

 

[ImaFlippinDolphin]

4 xr30 pros over 900 3xl

Radions seem to performing, I have 2 6ft reef brites to add but haven't yet

 

[Gungo]

I am running one 36" 8 bulb Sunpower T5 and two 36" XHO reefbrites on my 40" x 21" tank.

 

[MaxTremors]

I have just one fixture over my 28g Nanocube, it’s an AI Prime 16HD. The stock lighting wasn’t bad (it’s the 40w LED wifi version), its capable of growing most softies and LPS (and some SPS higher on the rock work) but the blue spectrum wasn’t that wide (nothing on the lower end, no UV). Since switching my corals are much more colorful and are growing faster.

 

[Kershaw]

Still waiting I. Tank to arrive but it’s a 60x28x20
I have two Kessil a360x and one ap9x going on it. I intend to add more kessils later as I get acros or hybrid t5

Kessil is my favorite brand.

 

[Salt_Creep]

I have four Noopsyche LED's along with their hybrid T5x4 fixture

 

[Saltysav96]

2 GHL mitra’s LX7206 on a 36x24 tank

 

[Sleeping Giant]

I'm running 2 Noopsyche K7 V3 Reef lights. I was running 2 Fluval Marine LEDs prior to the Noopsyches.

 

[Hydrored]

4 Stratons currently over my 8’

new build will be 4 GNC Blu-ray Pros and 3 Kessil A360x’s over a 7’ 300

 

[lambe00j]

I run 3 radion XR15s on my waterbox 110.4.
I run 1 AI prime 16HD on my pico 4.1gallon tank.
Personally, I like my radions better than my AI prime, but I have only run radions for the last 10 years and have been very happy

 

[Grill]

4 Kessil A360s on a 7ft 210g.

 

[captainbeardly]

Thank you @Sleeping Giant for the QOTD idea!

One piece of equipment that 99.9% of every saltwater reef aquarium hobbyist uses is LIGHTS! It's also no secret that the majority of reefers now choose LED lighting over other types of lighting. (not saying other types are not good options) But how many lights we have and what brand we are using are left up to our specific needs and taste! So let's light it up with some comments today!

1. How many lights (fixtures) do you have over your tank and what's the dimensions of your tank?

2. Which brand(s) of lighting are you using for your reef tank?

image via @Orphek

I have 1 reefbreeders V2+ over my tank running for 12 hrs

 

[SPS2020]

1. How many lights (fixtures) do you have over your tank and what's the dimensions of your tank?
4 Hydra 32 HD's
4 54w T5's (2 ATI Actinic, 2 Geismann Actinic)
48" tank (IM EXT 100)

2. Which brand(s) of lighting are you using for your reef tank?
AquaticLife Dimmable
ATI Hydra 32 HD

 

[mrlavalamp]

My tank is a Half Cylinder with a 30" radius.

I have 3 Viparspectra 165w lights.

They do ok. but the white channel is just too much white for me. Sadly I got a later version where the led chips are glued down to the board and swapping them out is not as easy as the earlier version covered in the blackbox mod thread.

 

[X-37B]

2 250 watt de phoenix 14k halides.
1 blue plus OR3 48" light bar.
1 blue sky OR3 48" light bar.

 

[Member No 1]

Standard 120G 48"x 24"x24" SPS
2 GHL Mitras LX7206

 

[cocoReefer]

Currently have 6 fixtures on a 6’ 125 gallon

3 x 120 watt cheap led boxes, think its called Relassy.
2 x 6’ blue reef bright strips front and back of those
1 x 2’ 32 watt blue accent over high light section

Wanted to dip into the led lighting after many years of using a 400 watt 20k metal halide on a 5’ light mover.
Loved that setup, the center section of the tank got twice the amount of light as the two ends did ( as the light passed back and fourth) kept the high light corals in the middle of the mixed reef.
Now with the led setup ive moved the high light lovers to one end where i can more effectively blast them with flow, without hitting the rest of the reef as hard.
The cheap led boxes are power houses with a lot of white. Lacking in blue and deeper blue spectrum, so thats where the reef brights come in.
None of the lights are controllable other than mixing blue/white so having a bunch gives the opportunity to have one come on at a time to simulate dawn/dusk.
I miss the halide shimmer and will probably add kessil at some point, maybe to replace the cheapo intro led boxes.

 

[jeffrey holloway]

I have two tanks; 150G has two Kessil AP9Xs and Two T5 4blub fixtures 6 blue plus and two true actinic. The 65G has a Kessel AP700 two Kessel 360 Tuna blues and a 4 blub T5 fixture. Set it and for get it. My lights are the least of my worries.

 

[shakacuz]

AI Hydra 32HD with the reefbrite xho k26. i only have a 40b so i believe the light is enough. will be upgrading to a 90g later on and may get another set of both.