Tank after 6 months with LED lighting

[chathomas]

Many doubters out there to LED lighting. I had MH on my previous tank and never had this kind of growth in 6 months. All of the sps and lps frags that I started my tank with have all grown significantly. After I trusted the lights I put in large display pieces and they have all done great except for my green bubble who fell in the middle of the night onto one of my aussie hammers and got his but kicked. l'm leaving him in to see if he will recover. Love my lights and don't miss the evap or replacing my MH.

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[Soopabruva1]

Do you have before pics?

[disc1]

I'm trying something out here. Hopefully we should see your picture

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z361/chthomas/2011-05-01_12-49-29_624.jpg

[disc1]

nope. Somebody show me how to do this.

[disc1]

What does your LED set-up consist of / look like? What kind of bulbs?

[NirvanaFan]

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[NirvanaFan]

I'm trying something out here. Hopefully we should see your picture

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z361/chthomas/2011-05-01_12-49-29_624.jpg

you have to replace the url tags with img tags, don't just enclose the url tags.

[Higgy2010]

When you're in Photobucket, put your cursor on the photo, but don't click yet. When the cursor's there, a drop down menu should appear. Move your cursor down to the line that shows "HTML Code." Click on that. It should now say "Copied" instead of the actual code. That means the code has been copied. Now go back to this forum. Right click your mouse and paste the code into your dialogue/reply box. Once you post the reply, the image will show.

[chathomas]

this is my light set up.
http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z361/chthomas/2010-12-10_15-16-55_724.jpg
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[ludnix]

My tank has had LEDs for 6 months as well. It was under MH and T5 for 2 years prior to that.

LEDs first turned on:
http://www.saltwatermasters.com/gallery/u/ludnix/September-10//thumbs/FTS-800x600.jpg (http://www.saltwatermasters.com/gallery/focus/v/ludnix/September-10/FTS.jpg)

6 months later:
http://www.saltwatermasters.com/gallery/u/ludnix/April-11//thumbs/IMG_3107-800x600.jpg (http://www.saltwatermasters.com/gallery/focus/v/ludnix/April-11/IMG_3107.jpg)

The caulestrea had to be moved, the LEDs were too bright for it. The rest of the corals have just put on great growth.

I've put together several fixtures for clients of the store I work and everyone has been having great success with them. Other than the high initial cost they seem to be well worth the attention they getting. Whether or not they will really last 10 years we can only wait and see, but since they pay for themselves in 2 years with electrical savings I'm not worried at all.

[chathomas]

very nice. They pay for themselves by not replaceing MH bulbs also

[chathomas]

I also see you just added the MP40w. I got these cheap tsunis before I spent for the mp40. do you like it? any issues?

[ludnix]

I love the MP40, I don't like the price and would appreciate them working on making them more affordable, but they do an excellent job. I wasn't sure if one could replace the wide flow I got from 2x koralia 4's, but it really has nice output, being able to adjust the rate is great too.

[Angel*Fish]

Very nice tank! What is that al over the sand?

[chathomas]

I have a million cerith snails which fall off the walls when the lights go on. When I put my trigger in there they will be no more. I ordered a hundred and got 500 or 600

[Angel*Fish]

I have a million cerith snails which fall off the walls when the lights go on. When I put my trigger in there they will be no more. I ordered a hundred and got 500 or 600Holy cow! lol I was going to say I don't think you can fee all those, but it sounds like they are the food. What kind of trigger?

[geaux xman]

very nice tank...

everyone has their personal fish preference, but that foxface looks a little out of place in that tank...

[chathomas]

probably pink tail trig. It will be my one large fish in the tank.

[chathomas]

not complaining about the CUC I ordered. Got way more than I ordered for under 100 bucks and they have done a hell of a job

[Angel*Fish]

Large is right - they get over a foot long. Triggers are highly intelligent and in my opinion it would be a cruel thing to do. It will make your tank look small and he may munch on your smaller fish.

Unless you ordered those ceriths as food for another animal, what you did was order animals you can't possibly feed in the long run. They would starve. What an online vendor thinks is a good number for a given size tank can have more to do with how many he wants to sell than how many you need.

[chathomas]

your right about the trigger. the cuc did their job well and the ceriths just aren't dying off. don't mind them being on the sand. plan on adding numerous open brains and donut corals to cover the remaining bottom so they won't stand out so much. Can you recommend a good medium size swimming fish that isn't a tang?

[chathomas]

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tank prior to Cuc and lawnmower blenny