LED experience and input sought

[Palting]

It's that time again. Time to replace 3 Metal Halide bulbs and 8 T5 bulbs on my light fixture. Not cheap to keep doing this, so I always start looking at options every time I have to do this. Again. Tank is over 4 years old and doing well, so I always hesitate changing anything, but willing to explore better/more efficient ways to do tis.

Looking for those with experience to chime in.

2 BIG factors I need to be considered.
1. The tank is SPS dominated. Translation: Needs a lot of light.
2. The tank is 27" tall. Translation: Needs deeply penetrating lights.

Currently looking at Maxspect Razor R420r, maybe get 3 of the 120W fixtures.

Thoughts?

Thanks!!

 

[EricTMah]

That's a great choice. I run 2 of the maxspect 120w's over my 48X24X24 tank and I'm mostly SPS dominated. A good friend of mine is running 3 of the same units over his 72X24X24 tank and there's plenty of light.

With my SPS dominated tank I only run the unit at about 65% at its peak. So plenty of light to spare.

Just make sure to climatize your corals to the light. They're a lot brighter than you think.

When I switched from my 2X 175W MH and 2 T5's to the two maxspects. I ended up burning a bunch of corals just from having it at 50%.

I have no complaints about this light at all.

 

[Erak82]

I have two led reef breeders over my tank i have zoas sps and lps. I have no lenses on mine . Definaltly wont have to worry about needing enough light for the sps im willing to bet you could bleach them if your not careful. I have also got good color on my corals. My green birds nest hated the leds finally starting to get color again.

 

[ryanlotz5]

Check out Steve's LEDs they have nice kits for sps dominated tanks using luxeon 3w LEDs with great par reading not cheap Chinese LEDs ! Kits are fairly easy to assemble for the inexperienced


Sleep eat reef repeat !!!