Soon to be Switching from MH to Ocean Revive Arctic S026 LEDs

Rob.D · Dec 19, 2013

Personally I find the ramping function to be useless, I never had the option of ramping my Mh or T5 fixtures, I swapped out a G2 Radion for the OR Arctic and my corals (SPS LPS polyps) love me for it.

Orly20 · Dec 19, 2013

Thanks for the clarification!

It's a nice feature to have because it gives our corals and fish a bit more of a natural overall feel.

I might just wait for the new lights to come out.

I'll be looking out for them

Ron Reefman · Dec 21, 2013

Rob.D said:
Personally I find the ramping function to be useless, I never had the option of ramping my Mh or T5 fixtures, I swapped out a G2 Radion for the OR Arctic and my corals (SPS LPS polyps) love me for it.

I have both. Fixtures that ramp over my DT's and fixtures that don't over my working tanks. I like the fact that as the day goes by my tank changes. It's very blue for 3-4 hours at sunrise, it get more and more white and at 8 hours is at midday white and then does the reverse for the 8 hour sunset which ends for 3 hours of very blue. But then I'm home all day and get to enjoy it. The OceanRevive fixtures with dimmers are fine over my frag tank and QT. I like that they are adding timers and getting rid of one power cord. Those are nice improvements.

rizon25 · Jan 24, 2014

Jan 24, 2014 updates. So I just wanted to update my thread with some SPS pictures and how they've been doing under the new LEDs. I guess it will just be easier to post side by side pictures of 2 months growth pics. I had recently purchased some clown gobys which caused a lot of my sps polyps to retract and then I noticed that they started eating some of the polyps as well. For those with SPS dominant reefs, I suggest staying away from Clown Gobys! I have since caught them and placed them in my sump where they will stay. Slowly the polyps are coming back out. Growth is decent with led's. I can't tell if growth is any faster than when I had metal halides, but I like the growth I am seeing, especially since I have less expenditures on electricity, ro water, bulb changes, etc. I did notice that the initial switch from mh to led's caused a slowdown in growth initially but now the growth is finally picking up again. I am guessing that they do need to acclimate to the new lighting. Here are the pics:

Rainbow Pocci and Setosa
Nov 18 2013:

Jan 24, 2014

Garf Bonsai
Nov 18 2013

Jan 24, 2014

Green Slimer
Oct 30, 2013

Jan 24, 2014

ATL Shades of fall
Nov 18, 2013

Jan 24 2014

Monti cap colorwheel
Nov 18, 2013

Jan 24, 2014

Joe the Coral
Nov 18, 2013

Jan 24, 2014

Jimbo662 · Jan 24, 2014

WOW...proof is in the pictures! Love colors on your rainbow acan.

Ron Reefman · Jan 25, 2014

Great follow up! And nice growth too. I found the same thing when I switched. It took awhile for the corals to acclimate and then they started growing just as good as they did under 1000w of MH. Your current shots look like the light is a bit brighter and the corals look like you are close to the max PAR they could take. Is that what you see when you look at them (as opposed to the photos)? What power settings are you running now?

rizon25 · Jan 26, 2014

Ron Reefman said:
Great follow up! And nice growth too. I found the same thing when I switched. It took awhile for the corals to acclimate and then they started growing just as good as they did under 1000w of MH. Your current shots look like the light is a bit brighter and the corals look like you are close to the max PAR they could take. Is that what you see when you look at them (as opposed to the photos)? What power settings are you running now?

Thanks Ron! You know I did notice that my slimer and other corals lightened up lately. I haven't been feeding as much which is probably the reason why. I will start to feed more and probably reduce the lights a bit. Thanks for looking out!

Ron Reefman · Jan 27, 2014

I've only bleached one coral in 18 months with leds. But I hate to see anybody lose corals!

Orly20 · Mar 19, 2014

Great pics! I wanted to know how the tank was doing and if anyone has heard a time frame on the release of the new OR Apex controllable fixtures coming out?

mattgreene22 · Jul 14, 2014

rizon25 said:
Jan 24, 2014 updates. So I just wanted to update my thread with some SPS pictures and how they've been doing under the new LEDs. I guess it will just be easier to post side by side pictures of 2 months growth pics. I had recently purchased some clown gobys which caused a lot of my sps polyps to retract and then I noticed that they started eating some of the polyps as well. For those with SPS dominant reefs, I suggest staying away from Clown Gobys! I have since caught them and placed them in my sump where they will stay. Slowly the polyps are coming back out. Growth is decent with led's. I can't tell if growth is any faster than when I had metal halides, but I like the growth I am seeing, especially since I have less expenditures on electricity, ro water, bulb changes, etc. I did notice that the initial switch from mh to led's caused a slowdown in growth initially but now the growth is finally picking up again. I am guessing that they do need to acclimate to the new lighting.

Loved your earlier progression...do you have an update you could share? Also, have you taken PAR readings? I keep SPS in my 46bow and am starting a 120g build...do you think I could keep SPS/acros at the sand bed as I do now with T5. Trying to plan for placement if I use two S026 on the 120g...dims are 48"x24"x24". Thanks! Really dig your tank