Orphek or3 bar or reefbreeders lumen bar
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MONTANTK
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Someone on here had a nice article about the reef brite (not to be confused with reef breeder) and the Or3 bars. Ultimately, the reef brites blow the Or3 out of the water when it came to par and I think spectrum as well. Not too familiar with the reef breeders so I won’t comment but may be worth looking at reefbrites too
bam123
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LOve my orphek bars. I don't think it matters what you pick, anything that hit the minimum PAR and where you don't change the spectrum every other month and you will get great results if everything else is good.
bam123
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I run the orphek bars on my fowler that has a lot of softies. It is a deep tank and the corals are happy. They are my primary. I used on 2 foot bar on a 2 foot tank as a supplement to kessel spotlight and it worked great for a mixed tank.
Hermie
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Not entirely true. Reef Brite have wider spread and more even distribution of PAR, however OR3 has higher PAR over the middle area, ie a long spotlight/"bar of light" effect. So if someone has a deep and narrow tank, OR3 would be my choice, however Reef Brite illuminate more of the tank. And it really also depends on how many lights people are going to install. One vs Multiples will change the light distribution. Since OR3 has higher PAR than Reef Brite over the center, it can be mounted higher to achieve an equal PAR level, but the light distribution will still not be as wide as a Reef brite mounted lower. Personally I like wide spread of light, but I have an OR3 so I'm trying to make it work. I may end up removing the lenses to get more of the reef brite effect
RJKain-777
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Did it with hydras.
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Have Stratons on a 180 and use OR3's to get extra pop out of corals. Use a blue plus and what they call the uv which is looks like lavender. Get fantastic colors out of corals even 36 inches below lights.
As an experiment, I am currently running 4 x OR3 36" bars staggered over a 48"x24"x24" 120g right now as Primary lighting. Knowing the fact that Orphek used the same LEDs as the Atlantik V2 on these bars, I wanted to see how it performed. So far, so good! Great spread over the full tank, minimal shading and all corals are loving it! Great color, and great growth over the past 3 months. They are mounted 5" off the water in a canopy. Only downside is the inability to dim, but I cycle them on one by one in the morning, and repeat for off cycle at night. Seems to work great
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