LED fixtures for 8ft tank

[Ultraman]

Tank is 96x30x30 Looking to do softies and LPS. Looking for ideas.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Price range?

 

[piranhaman00]

Search.

 

[Ultraman]

Lol don’t post if you can’t help

 

[Fishfinder]

Reef breeders makes 3’ and 4’ fixtures. You could get 2

 

[RobB'z Reef]

Lol don’t post if you can’t hel

Who are you responding to here? Just curious... Having a budget in mind would produce the most helpful responses.

 

[vetteguy53081]

6 orphek OR3 light bars
2 - 48” hybrid fixtures
2-3 kessil ap 9x or 700

 

[Ultraman]

Who are you responding to here? Just curious... Having a budget in mind would produce the most helpful responses.

The valuable member saying to search obviously doesn’t understand what makes message boards like this tick and survive past FB

 

[Hydrored]

4 Straton's cover my 8' with no shadowing at all, you could get away with 3. What is your budget?

 

[Jon Fishman]

I use:

Aquatic Life Hybrid Fixtures, 48” x2
Radion XR30 Pro’s x4

As far as growth etc. I don’t see much different than the 3x 300W Mars Aqua black boxes I replaced, but I didn’t use them long (actually my tank was better then)

If you have a hood, and can hide bulky ugly lights, I would do black-boxes all day long

 

[Ultraman]

4 Straton's cover my 8' with no shadowing at all, you could get away with 3. What is your budget?

Softies and LPS. Budget $1400-1600.

 

[Ultraman]

Where do you find the black boxes? How many would I need?

 

[Jon Fishman]

Where do you find the black boxes? How many would I need?

Google ViVa Spectra or Mars Aqua. I would get 6 300W ones (longer ones) and go 2-rows end to end, and run them off of 2 power strips and 2 timers. They each have 2 power cables, one for blues, one for whites.... so you can have blues come on an hour before and after whites etc......

Not as controllable as fancy lights, but with that many, you can grow SPS throughout that entire tank.

Usually good deals if bought in multiples on ebay, or just check Amazon