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VERY interesting! standing by!Spoke with the Ophek Sales rep to order two Reef Violet. He warned me those were very purple and suggested the Blue Sky. After looking at the LED arrangement I decided the Blue Sky did not have many LEDs in the actinic range. Sales Rep suggested Orphek could modify the Reef Violet to make them less purple and still stay in the actinic zone.
Reef Violet has: 18 - 410nm and 6 - 430nm
Custom will have: 9 - 410nm and 15 430nm
The Orphek OR series is made when ordered, so no additional charge for the custom configuration.
Order placed.
Thanks for the kind words! Everything continues to go well in the lighting department. In fact, I should post a new picture of the tank. I've had to do a lot of cutting and rearranging of lately.
Have you considered one of the daylight strips and then also adding their actinic as well? It will really help with day to night transitions… and give you a wider spread with a lot more par.
By the way, with the strips, it's really good to angle them so you help eliminate any dead spots due the shading. I've found that a key to using strip lights in general.
I wonder why these strip lights aren't on Orphek's website yet. I suppose they are still in a test phase.
Drama. The best laid plans.... the Sunbrite actinic is starting to fail. It IS 6.5 years old, from a company that is out of business, so really, what did I expect, especially since the other two units which were newer had already failed, but dang it, I'm still irritated. It will not turn on without several whacks to the unit at a spot exactly two inches from the right end of the tube. Really. So, if I am not home, no light. All LEDs are good, and still ton of PAR, which is just more insult to injury.
So, what to do? Do I replace it with the Reef Blue OR 90 model? Or, do I go all out and get the Atlantik v4 Compact times 3 as a full new system?
Until I decide, I'm still whacking the light tube.
As of this week, they are on the Orphek web site. They just officially launched the product.
Yep! Doing well so far. Sorry to hear about the crash.... you're welcome to it back and some other stuff too. PM me....
Spoke with the Ophek Sales rep to order two Reef Violet. He warned me those were very purple and suggested the Blue Sky. After looking at the LED arrangement I decided the Blue Sky did not have many LEDs in the actinic range. Sales Rep suggested Orphek could modify the Reef Violet to make them less purple and still stay in the actinic zone.
Reef Violet has: 18 - 410nm and 6 - 430nm
Custom will have: 9 - 410nm and 15 430nm
The Orphek OR series is made when ordered, so no additional charge for the custom configuration.
Order placed.
P.S. I was going to see if I can get a SkyBlue, but replace the 490nm with the 430 from the Reef Violet.... so it will be a combo of 460 nm and 430nm....
I'd love to see pics of that! I'm considering a ReefViolet to supplement my T5's, but I'm worried it might be too purple. Reading on here that custom is an option might be the answer.P.S. I was going to see if I can get a SkyBlue, but replace the 490nm with the 430 from the Reef Violet.... so it will be a combo of 460 nm and 430nm....
elFloyd: How did this work out for you?