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What's making you lean to the redsea led 90's?I am looking at the same lights. Leaning toward the Red Sea 90w.
Is this your first time using hydra lights?I got the Hydra 32s and am really happy with them. Good color blending and coverage and it’s a second generation product so I felt it the safer option long term.
A few things. 1 you can get more PAR from this light it seems compared to other 90w fixtures due to choice of diodes. Lets say you run the AB+ settings on a Hydra 26 HD, to get that you need to turn some channels down which makes the PAR drop off some. You can only get full output from the Hydra if you run all channels at 100% and not many of us are using the light like that, mainly for pleasing color to the eye or more blue appearance. The HD function does help with this some though by taking power from the diodes that are turned down and giving it to the ones you want. 2 Red Sea has made the Reef LED very simple to use and ensures that no matter what setting you use the light produced will be good for corals. No chance of hurting corals by not having the proper spectrum, Kessil uses this same logic with their lights. 3 having the Reef Beat app for me will be a plus because if the lights loose power you will get a notification. Not having a controller capable of that makes this a nice feature if there is a power outage. 4 the excellent blending of the diodes. There is not disco effect at all with this light due to the lense and diode matrix designs and as a plus it makes some nice shimmer lines in the tank. I have seen a few of these in person and the light color is very nice, makes corals pop and seems to grow them well too. Now I will say I am not sold on the Reef LED, Hydras are still on the table and I have found some clearned 26s here and there for sub $300 and that is also appealing. I do wish either of these would come with a basic cable hanging kit as apposed to needing to buy some form of mounting system.What's making you lean to the redsea led 90's?
Hydra’s yes but I run their Prime HD on another tank.Is this your first time using hydra lights?
What would you prefer and why? Looking to upgrade but dont know which light I would prefer.
hope I'm not too late... but I have 2 bed side tanks (bio cube on each side)- both sps.. they are plumbed together into 20 gallon sump. my 32 g bio cube with has two black box lights over it and it makes it hard to service the tank. so I have been needing to upgrade my lights!! I was going to first get Orphek v4 compact, but with how many issues they have I decided against it.. same with Radion- I was going to get a g5 xr30 blue (with an upgrade in the near future) however, they also have a lot of issues and I didn't see the $1000 value in a cheaply made light... my LFS is changing to all RedSea and they look awesome so I was going to get the 160! but after doing some digging, people are having more issues with the redsea lights than the Radion and Orphek combined!! so after A LOT of thought, I ordered an AI HYDRA 32 today! Probably despite Ecotech.. but nevertheless, I have had an AI prime HD for 4 years now and it hasn't skipped a beat so I felt most confident in going with AI once again. It will be here next week and I can't wait! ill have to update this post soon and let y'all know how all my sps are responding to the new light!What would you prefer and why? Looking to upgrade but dont know which light I would prefer.