How’s your growth? Do you leave moon lights on during the 2000-0700 period?This is how I run mine. Adjusted the whites to my liking off of the AB+ as it was too blue. These lights are very powerful. I use their mount they sell and it’s 10” or so off the water. 450 par at top of my rocks and 250 on the bed. I use rocks as shade to get some areas in the 150 range for lps. Logan at Reefbreeders is awesome if you have questions as well. Great customer service
no moonlights. The tank is in my office at work so no one is there at night. I feel moonlights are for the viewer without much benefit to the tank inhabitants so I have it dark at night. Only had the light a couple weeks so can’t comment on growth yet but everything from acros to acans to zoas have great PE and color. I wouldn’t recommend running this light without getting a par meter to test though. I had lps in an area that was 400 par on a sand bed hot spot, had no clue, figured my assumptions were better than science, lol
Fortunately I was able to borrow a par meter from a friend. So, I will definitely be measuring. I had my settings peak at 40% for now, but plan on bumping it up 10% each week until I get to 400 on my top rocks. Right now I am at about 220, but have some serious shading going on. 8” to the right and left and 14” down I am around 110. So I need to raise my lights today to get better spread.
Yeah, I just raised mine up to 13” above the water. Then I had to bump up my peaks about 15% to get similar numbers. Now no more dark spots! However, I am still excited to add the light bars to help spread out the UV and blue spectrums more. I’ll post some pics later on with the setup. I can still go up about 4-5” more, but hopefully I won’t need to.
I went with the Reef Breeders light bars. They have dimmable drivers which I really wanted. Plus, for the price, they are hard to beat.
Yes, they are in a hood. However, the back of my hood is open and so is the top for circulation of air. Plus, it’s in my basement which stays a nice cool 64*! I moved my rear 60” light bar up front and angled it back so it wasn’t just lighting the front of my tank. No pics of that yet. The pink top now has holes in the middle of them for venting and so I could add cross bars to attach the lights to.There’s about a 8” gap behind the tank and hood that is hard to see for air flow.
Good for you - you're on top of things!I went with the Reef Breeders light bars. They have dimmable drivers which I really wanted. Plus, for the price, they are hard to beat.
Yes, they are in a hood. However, the back of my hood is open and so is the top for circulation of air. Plus, it’s in my basement which stays a nice cool 64*! I moved my rear 60” light bar up front and angled it back so it wasn’t just lighting the front of my tank. No pics of that yet. The pink top now has holes in the middle of them for venting and so I could add cross bars to attach the lights to.There’s about a 8” gap behind the tank and hood that is hard to see for air flow.
Do they have an issue with heating up? Should I add a fan on the back of the tank?
Yes, I think 150 to 200 on the sand bed will work if you want SPS corals lower in the tank. Some of the chalices I have don't like that much light though. When I get all the testing done, I'll post some pics of my corals along with light measurements.
