LPS and LED?

[Diamond1]

I have been out of the hobby for a few years and I am getting ready to start up my new tank in the next couple of months. With LED lighting (2 par 38 14k pendants and maybe an LED strip or 2) depending on how well the pendants cover the tank.
When I got out LED lighting was just getting talked about with reef tanks. I want my tank set up as a mixed SPS LPS tank. I have been doing a little research on LPS and LED lights and heard some anecdotal tales that some types of LPS do not do well under LEDs.
Was wondering if anyone has experienced this in a long term set up with LEDs and LPS

 

[Reefing Madness]

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[backpack]

They do fine under Lps. The colors in acans look better under a mostly blue light. Full spectrum grows them faster than bluer spectrum. Led is a lot different spectrum wise than t5 and halide lights. Read Sanjay yoshis articles on lighting to realy understand.

 

[cougercruiser]

I've seen this first hand owning a kessil A350. A most
Of all my chalices would get bleached. Some LEDs will and some won't. I have friends that run radions and chalices just fine.

 

[Nano sapiens]

A lot depends on the type of LEDs. Some older systems do not have a full enough spectrum. Some of the newest LED fixtures are getting much better and should be able to keep just about any LPS happy. DIY with the correct spectrum and intensity is even better IMO, but requires some in-depth lighting knowledge to get it right.

On the LPS front, I have happy Acans, Blastos, Lobos, Leptastrea in a 12g nano tank.

 

[Diamond1]

They do fine under Lps. The colors in acans look better under a mostly blue light. Full spectrum grows them faster than bluer spectrum. Led is a lot different spectrum wise than t5 and halide lights. Read Sanjay yoshis articles on lighting to realy understand.

I Watched a You tube video with Mike Palleta and Sanjay talking about Mikes 75 gallon LED set up and they both talked about how certain LPS were shedding their skeletons Part III of the Paletta LED Experimental Saltwater Reef Tank - with Mike Paletta and Sanjay Joshi - YouTube. Anybody seen this before? Mike starts talking about it at about 11 mins into the vid.

 

[backpack]

Generally led lights are much brighter than they appear. Sanjay shows par studies on most units. But ramp them up slow and full spectrum is nice as well. There are a lot of dimmable units that probably run what you do in bulb changes in a year or two.