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  1. 1. Which LED lightest will your choose for your SPS?

    • Maxspect (e.g. R420r,Mazarra P/Z)
      30
    • Radion (e.g. XR30W pro)
      12
    • Orphek (e.g. Alantik,DIF100,PR72)
      1
    • Aqua Illumination (e.g. Vega,Hydra)
      23
    • LumenAqua
      0

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illumnae
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Maxspect Razor for me. I have many units, none have failed me

Gideon
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Thank you very much. Will drop by his shop this weekend

brojj
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Btw, forking out $800 for a lightset or equipment is not uncommon in this hobbies, especially if we re talking about 'reliable, trusted, branded, proven' ones.

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Don't understand why they still stuck on to cool whites (which are almost unless. Mainly for our eyes pleasures) warm whites and neutral whites should be used instead. Reef breeders led (AKA evergrow) from USA (China) are having the best spectrum now. With use of neutral and warm white as well as red, green, cyan, Blue, royal blue, true and hyper violets. One of the few cheap led fixtures with really good spectrum.

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Bro, like what u said, cool white is only adjusted for our viewing pleasure. When there is demand, there will be supply. FYI, orphek altantik V2 cool white LED concentrate on giving out light spectrum from 400 - 460nm, so, their cool whites (apart from other colors, blues, hyperviolet, red) is actually important for PUR as well as for viewing pleasure. At least what they are doing now gives me the feeling that somebody is finally heading towards the right direction & not juz making a 'shotgun' LED that 'shot out' every single spectrum, which are mostly useless for corals & waste of our $$$.

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Ok la, mine not hanged so tall. Honestly the only led I will consider changing to is the reef breeders photon 32.the altanik is nice but one is not enough for my tank. I'm happy with my razors though!

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Photon 32. I remember that time u re asking for anyone interested so can import in together & changed to more blueish at no extra cost for orders of a few units? Am i correct? They re using bridgelux not cree LEDs. Looks big & bulkly but performance wise will not lost to razor. Can swap & change out the LEDs too, based on what i have read. 200Watt monster. More than enough coverage for 3ft. 90cm length.

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my tenuis grow under Vega about 5 months+ ... :P

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my tenuis grow under Vega about 5 months+ ... :P

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Woah... the colour is amazing...

I am also using vega but I have no idea how to configure it...

What is lunar cycle? What is weather effects? What is sunrise & sunset? Why must set the duration? What is the region(Fiji, Hawaii...etc)? CHIM!

At night still have blue light! Not sure if the corals will "overwork"... ha ha...

Can share your configurations?

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Woah... the colour is amazing...

I am also using vega but I have no idea how to configure it...

What is lunar cycle? What is weather effects? What is sunrise & sunset? Why must set the duration? What is the region(Fiji, Hawaii...etc)? CHIM!

At night still have blue light! Not sure if the corals will "overwork"... ha ha...

Can share your configurations?

me not set the lunar, weather etc ... just set the 1st auto mode at 100% for all led for 12hrs daily and ramp time is 1.5hrs so mean full 100% blast for 9hrs daily ... me no set night mode so after light off the tank totally darkness ... tats all ... :P

p/s: my led at 9" above water level and my tank is 30" high ...

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me not set the lunar, weather etc ... just set the 1st auto mode at 100% for all led for 12hrs daily and ramp time is 1.5hrs so mean full 100% blast for 9hrs daily ... me no set night mode so after light off the tank totally darkness ... tats all ... :P

 

p/s: my led at 9" above water level and my tank is 30" high ...

Got it... Thank you for sharing. I will try that out...

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Wow, nice growth n colouration. How is your routine like?

Cheers,

James

Reviving my reef tank :

Crystal glass 53" x 22" x 17" rimless (inclusive of 12"x22"x17" IOS)

Life Reef HVS3-24 with mazzei venturi

ATI Sunpower 8 x 39w T5 (4 x Blue plus, 2 x Aqua blue special, Coral plus)

ZET Light 3 x 3w LEDs moonlight

Arctica 1/3 Hp + 1/4 Hp back up

Vortech mp40w x 3 + Jebao wp25

Eheim 1264 x 3 + water blaster 5000

Vortech back up battery

TLF-150 + Rowaphos

Activated carbon

Kamoer 3 channel + CaCl2 + NaHCo3

150L Refugium with DSB, miracle mud, cheato

2ft T5 x 2 light tubes for refugium

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Wow, nice growth n colouration. How is your routine like?

Hi bro don't ask me about tat my tank consider ultra high nutrient with poor water quality because of my lazy style of reefing without any carbon dosing & wc only done when found rtn or stn or salinity drop even skimmer cup never clean for months ... so my water parameter really paiseh to tell ... :wacko:

a latest pic taken few days ago the tenuis grow a lot ... pic just taken with my samsung S3 ... :P

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Wah u r the first sps tank I see without wc or carbon dosing and yet can achieve such nice colouration on the sps.

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk

Cheers,

James

Reviving my reef tank :

Crystal glass 53" x 22" x 17" rimless (inclusive of 12"x22"x17" IOS)

Life Reef HVS3-24 with mazzei venturi

ATI Sunpower 8 x 39w T5 (4 x Blue plus, 2 x Aqua blue special, Coral plus)

ZET Light 3 x 3w LEDs moonlight

Arctica 1/3 Hp + 1/4 Hp back up

Vortech mp40w x 3 + Jebao wp25

Eheim 1264 x 3 + water blaster 5000

Vortech back up battery

TLF-150 + Rowaphos

Activated carbon

Kamoer 3 channel + CaCl2 + NaHCo3

150L Refugium with DSB, miracle mud, cheato

2ft T5 x 2 light tubes for refugium

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Wah u r the first sps tank I see without wc or carbon dosing and yet can achieve such nice colouration on the sps.

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its because of "Vega" ... :thumbsup: but still many type of sps cannot survive in my high nutrient tank so keep those easy one only ... :P

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What are those species that can take high nutrients? I think my tank also belong to the high nutrients type.

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Cheers,

James

Reviving my reef tank :

Crystal glass 53" x 22" x 17" rimless (inclusive of 12"x22"x17" IOS)

Life Reef HVS3-24 with mazzei venturi

ATI Sunpower 8 x 39w T5 (4 x Blue plus, 2 x Aqua blue special, Coral plus)

ZET Light 3 x 3w LEDs moonlight

Arctica 1/3 Hp + 1/4 Hp back up

Vortech mp40w x 3 + Jebao wp25

Eheim 1264 x 3 + water blaster 5000

Vortech back up battery

TLF-150 + Rowaphos

Activated carbon

Kamoer 3 channel + CaCl2 + NaHCo3

150L Refugium with DSB, miracle mud, cheato

2ft T5 x 2 light tubes for refugium

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Interesting. I like to know also

6.5 * 2 * 2 + 3.75 * 1.5 *1.5,(Decomn on 14/9/08)
4*2*2 + 2.5*1.25*1.25 (Decomn on 1/8/09)
5*2*2 (Fully LED light system, 140 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)
2.5*2*2(Fully LED Light System,96 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)

5*2.5*2(LED only)

Eheim return 1 * pump

1 HP Daikin compressor with cooling coil
2 Jebao OW40, 1 ecotech MP40,
1X6085 Tunze wm,

1 CURVE 7 Skimmer

  1 DIY 80 led control by Bluefish mini 

1 radion XR30W G2, 2 Radion XR15G3

Sump area lite by 5 ft T5 , 6 * SSC 3 watt red LED for refugium

1 Full spectrum E27 led light

1 CR control by bubble count

Start No Water Change since 1st Dec 2016

Add new 2.5x2x 1.5 ft 

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my nutrient is very high site PO4 at 0.1~0.2 range highest can reach 0.77 & NO3 at 10~20 range highest can reach 80 suddenly due to heavy feeding many fishes but if I force PO4 drop below 0.1 or NO4 drop below 10 my magnifica anemone will melt away tats y maintain at tat level with only rowaphos & sulphur without others carbon dosing ... those thick type sps like humilis, gemifera, abro, samoensis etc will not survive in my tank they turn brown stop growing than suddenly rtn in few weeks ...

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Another sps grow under Vega in 9 months time from tiny frag to big colony ... :P

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Beautiful stuff guys. Let me ask a simple question. As I eventually need to return to the US where power is 120 60hz, are the high-end LED lights that you are buying dual voltage (eg, usable here and in the US)? Really want to avoid paying out now and then having to sell in Pasar Salam... haha....

Thanks.

** Coming Soon ** 4x2x2 from Oceansing

1) Red Sea Max 130D

Stunner LED strip 24v 453nm Actinic Blue

2) 130liter nano from Pasir Ris... generic, but fun!


3) 300mm cube tank
Ecoxotic Par 38 tri-colour, PAR38 Aquarium LED 6-453nm Blue 4-6500k 2-Red
Eheim-Compact 600 Return Pump

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Another sps grow under Vega in 9 months time from tiny frag to big colony ... :P

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super nice !! excellent growth over 9 months !!

| Display : 48x30x22 Skimmer : SK-201 skimz

| Sump : 30x24x18 Wavemaker : 2x RW-15 , 1x RW-8

| Cooling : 1HP titanium drop in coil ATO : JBJ

| Lighting : ATI Sunpower 8x54w + 48x cree xte royal blue Return : Jebao dc-6000

| Dosing : Jebao dosing pump [ CaCl2 + NaHCO3 ] Pump :

| Reactor : FSZ Z160 zeolite reactor & phosban 150

| System : ZEOVIT

decomm-ed :

Ydkm SPS reef

:wub: >><< :wub:

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Beautiful stuff guys. Let me ask a simple question. As I eventually need to return to the US where power is 120 60hz, are the high-end LED lights that you are buying dual voltage (eg, usable here and in the US)? Really want to avoid paying out now and then having to sell in Pasar Salam... haha....

Thanks.

i see that you have an RSM130d. not much post on this rsm. anyway most led lights will come with a seperate power unit or their switching power supplies. just need to make sure you get those running on dual voltages. most likely you will need to replace the plug if the voltage is workable. this is what indicated on my razor power supply: Input 90-132VAC/180-264VAC

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Look like only ORPHEK and Vega has proven result

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6.5 * 2 * 2 + 3.75 * 1.5 *1.5,(Decomn on 14/9/08)
4*2*2 + 2.5*1.25*1.25 (Decomn on 1/8/09)
5*2*2 (Fully LED light system, 140 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)
2.5*2*2(Fully LED Light System,96 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)

5*2.5*2(LED only)

Eheim return 1 * pump

1 HP Daikin compressor with cooling coil
2 Jebao OW40, 1 ecotech MP40,
1X6085 Tunze wm,

1 CURVE 7 Skimmer

  1 DIY 80 led control by Bluefish mini 

1 radion XR30W G2, 2 Radion XR15G3

Sump area lite by 5 ft T5 , 6 * SSC 3 watt red LED for refugium

1 Full spectrum E27 led light

1 CR control by bubble count

Start No Water Change since 1st Dec 2016

Add new 2.5x2x 1.5 ft 

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