Whats Everyones Radion Lighting Graph

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As the title says, please post your graphs to helps others decide what graph to use and which one benefits the reef tank best!
 

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I've been looking for a thread where everyone posts their tank sizes and what they have their Radions set too, I'm kind of surprised there isn't one. I'm still cycling my tank so I still have time to play around with different setting but I would like to hear from someone with some experience.
 

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I have a few corals in my tank with my CUC. Nothing too demanding yet but this is how I have it setup:

Radon G3 Pro
All Blue ramp to 12k 8am to 9am
12k-20k from 9am-5pm
All blue 100%-0% 6pm-8pm

Pretty simple setup. I have the intensity at 100% all the way through. I have 1 unit over a 93g cube.
 

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Radion Pro, 45% Radiant Color, 8AM to 8PM, 45 Gallon Cube, 8" Overhead, Taken around mid-day (Full Spectrum)
 

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Here's mine. They're running at 18k. The schedule isn't anything original. It's the high growth template.

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Radion Pro, 45% Radiant Color, 8AM to 8PM, 45 Gallon Cube, 8" Overhead, Taken around mid-day (Full Spectrum)


have you noticed good growth with the sps? how long have you had the lights?
 

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Im using the Radion Gen 1's on Radiant color as well but I did tweak to get a little more whites for a couple of hours a day. I was at 40% and moved up to 45%. Getting ready to move up to 50% but wont go beyond that I think. I did notice my sps looking better then before. I had a tank crash a couple of months ago and the 2 sps i have left that survived are looking better. I also plan to upgrade my Gen 1's to Gen 3 pros in the next month or 2..
 
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Im using the Radion Gen 1's on Radiant color as well but I did tweak to get a little more whites for a couple of hours a day. I was at 40% and moved up to 45%. Getting ready to move up to 50% but wont go beyond that I think. I did notice my sps looking better then before. I had a tank crash a couple of months ago and the 2 sps i have left that survived are looking better. I also plan to upgrade my Gen 1's to Gen 3 pros in the next month or 2..

ok cool, im running my gen 3 radion at 45% and plan on moving up to 60% or so in a couple months, just started getting into sps so well see how it goes from here!
 
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I've had mine at 100% since day 1.

what are you keeping under it? ive heard nothing but bad news when you keep them at 100% from the start, no acclimation or anything did you do?
 

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I've got the Radion Pros on my 90. I'm running the radiant color schedule and 45%. They come on at 12:30 and the moon light period starts at 9:30-11:30. So far all my SPS are happy. I'm trying to lengthen the hours slightly each week and will increase to 50% as soon as I can contact Ecotech and fix my connection issues.
 
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I've got the Radion Pros on my 90. I'm running the radiant color schedule and 45%. They come on at 12:30 and the moon light period starts at 9:30-11:30. So far all my SPS are happy. I'm trying to lengthen the hours slightly each week and will increase to 50% as soon as I can contact Ecotech and fix my connection issues.

how long have you had the radions?
 

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what are you keeping under it? ive heard nothing but bad news when you keep them at 100% from the start, no acclimation or anything did you do?


Right now I don't have much in there. I have an orange crush acan enchinata, multiple zoas and a scoly. They all came from a 30g with a 150w halide. And they are all doing great. The acan is getting colors I've never seen it have in the past 2 years.
 
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Right now I don't have much in there. I have an orange crush acan enchinata, multiple zoas and a scoly. They all came from a 30g with a 150w halide. And they are all doing great. The acan is getting colors I've never seen it have in the past 2 years.

Awesome! Good to know that the leds are proving off to have good growth for corals along with good husbandry
 

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have you noticed good growth with the sps? how long have you had the lights?

Yes, originally I thought I was smarter than Ecotech and did my own setting. It was too intense and I saw some border line bleaching. I called Ecotech and they made the recommendation to the setting I have now and said I could eventually ramp up as high as 65% based on my tank size which I have yet to do.

The tank has been set up for about 12 months. The best growth I have seen in a couple of my Acro's has been about 3-4" in the last 8 months since I made the change. I am considering increasing the intensity to 50% in the coming weeks.
 

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I think intensity settings have a lot to do with tank size as well. I have one g3 pro over a 30x30x24 tank (the maximum tank size). That is why I have it set at 100%
 
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I think intensity settings have a lot to do with tank size as well. I have one g3 pro over a 30x30x24 tank (the maximum tank size). That is why I have it set at 100%

what corals are in your tank ?
 

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Don't have any coral in my tank yet, but I made a program anyway.
My program starts on 20k and goes up to 10k and then back down to 20k. The intensity is at 60% max. Does this seem like a good program? I'm wondering if this will get coral growing at a good rate. If anyone has opinions please let me know.
 

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