T5 / LED Hybrid for Zoas

[shrimped]

Hello i’m gonna try a 24” Aquatic Life T5 / LED Hybrid fixture on my 2’ x 2’ x 2’ zoa frag tank. I currently have a single Radion Xr15 G4 Pro running 50% intensity 3 hours on whites and 80% blues for the rest 5 hours. What bulbs do you recommend for the fixture and what intensity should my LEDs be on? I currently don’t have a PAR meter and i’m not sure if i know anyone near me (Brea, California) that would let me borrow one.

 

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[Waters]

Hello i’m gonna try a 24” Aquatic Life T5 / LED Hybrid fixture on my 2’ x 2’ x 2’ zoa frag tank. I currently have a single Radion Xr15 G4 Pro running 50% intensity 3 hours on whites and 80% blues for the rest 5 hours. What bulbs do you recommend for the fixture and what intensity should my LEDs be on? I currently don’t have a PAR meter and i’m not sure if i know anyone near me (Brea, California) that would let me borrow one.

We are running completely different setups, but i just recently added a 4 bulb ATI hybrid fixture, along with my two XR30 G3 Pros, which were also running at 50%. I added two ATI coral+ and two ATI blue+ bulbs, and reduced my Radion intensity down to 30%. That gave me approximately 100 more par on average across the tank.

 

[blasterman]

What problem are you trying to solve by changing lights? If your current light is running at 50% then what's they issue? Unlike SPS softies don't care if you run a small foot print light source and T5's won't make them grow better. Best light I have for heavy paly tanks is my modified mars aqua black box.

I have a Noopsyche on one of my paly frag tanks. It has plenty of par, but the color ratio of LEDs is horrible. In that respect it's a serious downgrade from a Radion even though the Radion's are horribly over priced in my opinion.

 

[shrimped]

We are running completely different setups, but i just recently added a 4 bulb ATI hybrid fixture, along with my two XR30 G3 Pros, which were also running at 50%. I added two ATI coral+ and two ATI blue+ bulbs, and reduced my Radion intensity down to 30%. That gave me approximately 100 more par on average across the tank.

thank you

What problem are you trying to solve by changing lights? If your current light is running at 50% then what's they issue? Unlike SPS softies don't care if you run a small foot print light source and T5's won't make them grow better. Best light I have for heavy paly tanks is my modified mars aqua black box.

I have a Noopsyche on one of my paly frag tanks. It has plenty of par, but the color ratio of LEDs is horrible. In that respect it's a serious downgrade from a Radion even though the Radion's are horribly over priced in my opinion.

Im just disappointed on the growth in my zoa tank. I also see so many people that have a zoa dominated frag tank switch over to T5 or MH and told me there is a huge difference. Some of them are on R2R and others are local people that i traded zoas with.