happyhourhero
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They do great for acros. Battlecorals has a good schedule or you can just copy ab+
My Reef Breeders Photon V2+ Lighting program
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Just found this thread. I've been using reefbreeders v2 since they came out. Love them.
I've been ramping up my lights to get more par out of them. I had to take the lenses out of the fixture because my hood is very shallow. My lights are about 4" off the water. Currently Blues are 100% violet and light blue is at 80% red at 6% green at 12% and I'm trying to rent my white up to 80%. That's going to give me 330 par at the top of my rock.
I did have acrylic covering my tank to keep from splashing but I sinse move that to the fixture as you can see in the photos.
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Yes, I'm struggling to come up with a solution.
I currently have a 75 gallon, standard 48" x 18".
I'm upgrading to a 150 gallon, 60" x 24".
The maridian light is not out yet.
So, I'm planning to use my current 48" photon v2. All my research says it's not for 60" tanks. I have a bunch of 54w ballast and T5 reflectors so I'm going to diy my new 12" canopy.
I'm struggling with which lights to mount in it. I'm going with 4 bulbs. Coral+ and blue+ are probably the best options. But I think Aquablue are just as good.
I'm trying to light up the end of the tank and like the whiter look.
Bpb
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I use two photon 50’s on a 60” 150 gallon. They do the job well. Acropora dominant but I put lps and jawbreakers on the far ends on the sand where the light falls off a bit
Yes, I'm mostly sps and the photons are great.
I'm cheaping out sort of speak.
The maridians aren't out yet, I'm worried a 50" has the shading at the end(I don't want that).
I thought about going to led strips but I have 7 ballasts laying around that run (2) or (4) 54w bulbs. Not to mention the reflectors also laying around.
I'm pretty sure I'll have great coverage, it's just deciding on bulbs.
I also reached out to Logan to see if I can get my hands on 120° optics. Have not heard back yet.
Currently I run without any but lifting the fixture from 4" to 12" I'm sure the par will also drop off. (maybe not?) Not sure.
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Yeah, for the record I have been running a couple meridian 63 inches the longest one that they got and it is by far the best light I’ve got up here! I absolutely love them
I’m just counting the days till I can get these over every tank. Things just look great. Coral has responded tremendously well and there are some newer mechanical features that I really appreciate as well. I know they’re not cheap but if you got the wherewithal and the time to wait for their arrival, I don’t think you’d be sad that you did.
How old are your units?
If I had a second 48" I can completly blanket my 60" tank.
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I got them around the end of summer I think heres an Ariel shot of me with one of them my messy office. lol
No shoes in the office, love it!I got them around the end of summer I think heres an Ariel shot of me with one of them my messy office. lol
I sent you A PM, do you get PM's?
Are the lightning schedule still the same till this day or has it changed?Ok well, some good news. I finally got around to getting this done today. I have been wanting to have a quick access resource, in case I needed to reprogram my fixtures in any sort of shuffle. I have also been asked by many people to share my Photon schedule. And here it is.
Mind you this is over my prop system, where I want just about as much light as I can get. If I were running them over a display, I'd dial the whites (channel 4) down to 50-65 max at the peak, for a bit bluer aesthetic.
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I think my whites are a little lower at the peak. 67-75 topps
What kind of par do you think you're blasting on those corals at peak???
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fabulous question! I had a good friend over sometime before xmas and we actually measured par at the coral. Typically id just measure the water surface dry to get an over all reference and because im lazy lol .
most of my frags under the photons at peak are getting about 300 at the actual coral. @mblaquatics Maybe you can confirm for me:)
That’s interesting as I assumed it would actually be more with the amount of light you’re pushing.
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