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View Poll Results: What's your intensity
100% 32 8.12%
90% to 80% 32 8.12%
80% to 70% 50 12.69%
70% to 60% 69 17.51%
60% to 50% 92 23.35%
Less then 50% 119 30.20%
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Unread 11/14/2013, 11:40 AM   #51
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I am surprised as well.

I wish the people who voted in the lower intensities would have stated what corals they keep.
I voted lower intensities.I keep Sps corals.I have found out that @50% my corals still looked washed out .


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Unread 11/14/2013, 12:06 PM   #52
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It's tough because LEDs look so dim to me 50% and below.


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Unread 11/14/2013, 01:10 PM   #53
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It's the white balance that if low will give a low light affect. Raise the whites and see what happens


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Unread 11/14/2013, 01:30 PM   #54
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It's tough because LEDs look so dim to me 50% and below.

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It's the white balance that if low will give a low light affect. Raise the whites and see what happens
Same here but I'll try out the white balance and see. Is there one particular color that tends to "burn" the corals more than another or is it the sheer amount of combined light and distance from source that does it?


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It may sound silly but raising my light helped with the "dim look". It lit more of the room and it is perceived to be brighter when I actually dimmed the over all intensity.

I personally love the 22kish look that is on my schedule at around 7:30pm.

Is it possible to grow corals at that setting? Do you need the red and green and whites at all?


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Unread 11/14/2013, 07:47 PM   #56
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this is very close to what I am running except I am running from 12pm-6pm...do you find that 3 hours is enough? are you ramping up to that and ramping back down?
Here is my schedule that seems to be the perfect sweet spot. I will not change my schedule again for a long while as I truly believe this is perfect for my all SPS tank.

Start of day is from 7:45 am until 10:30 pm with what i call a twist lol
12am to 1am
100/0/0/0/0 at 20% intensity of the overall 70%

8:00am to 9:30am
100/100/0/0/0
10am
100/100/9/9/9
11am
100/100/18/18/18
12pm
100/100/25/18/25
1pm to 4pm
100/100/38/18/38
5pm
100/100/25/18/25
6pm
100/100/18/18/18
7pm
100/100/9/9/9
8pm t0 9:30pm
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Unread 11/15/2013, 05:50 AM   #57
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I have 8 radions over my 410 gal mostly SPS reef tank. I am currently running them at 40%. Any higher and I get some serious bleaching. I am getting some good growth and starting to see some nice color. My tank is about 8 months old now. I got a great schedule by calling EcoTech support.
What are they? Gen ??? Pros????
How High?
Whats the footprint of the tank?

Need input lol

Bc my tank is just about that big too and I'm currently running 4 But I know I need more.


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Unread 11/15/2013, 05:55 AM   #58
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What do you guys run for whites reds and greens channels
Whites @ 100%
Reds & Greens @ 25%

And as i stated earlier all running at max 75%

If I go any higher on the reds and greens Instant algae bloom lol


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Unread 11/15/2013, 06:04 AM   #59
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Radion pro x2 on 3x3. 50% on 20k setting


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Unread 11/15/2013, 06:05 AM   #60
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Whites @ 100%
Reds & Greens @ 25%

And as i stated earlier all running at max 75%

If I go any higher on the reds and greens Instant algae bloom lol
I had the same problem with the greens and reds. I am at 70% intensity so it's been working well.


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Unread 11/16/2013, 08:29 PM   #61
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I guess I had mine high, near 80% over a 40b, some sps where bleached, I am trying radiate @ 65%


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Unread 11/18/2013, 05:56 AM   #62
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I still can't get over that 50 people run at 60% or less


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Unread 11/20/2013, 09:18 AM   #63
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I still can't get over that 50 people run at 60% or less


Yeah me too.

I started getting a few zoanthids lately so I dropped my total intensity from 65% down to 60%.


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Unread 11/20/2013, 09:23 AM   #64
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Yeah me too.

I started getting a few zoanthids lately so I dropped my total intensity from 65% down to 60%.
How do they look? Post a picture or two


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Unread 11/22/2013, 09:46 AM   #65
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i went from 8 400 watt MH and T5 VHO supplemental actinics to 8 radion pros and my thoughts were 100% cranked! softies, clams, zoes did fine and even a 2 chalices did great but anything else i put in either bleached or browns. after reading this post im dialing down to 75% and see what happens with my corals and with any new corals that are introduced. the radions pack a hell of a punch and they will burn like a laser beam if you keep them too low. my depth is 36 inches and still i think now after reading this it needs to be ramped down and raised to 18 inches. my real issue is that i like a bright tank but i guess its all getting used too. I tried to have VHO T5's with radions just to brighten the tank but the ballasts interfere with the electronics of the radions. T5's and radions for me would be the perfect mix. ill keep you all posted as the tank turns. hmm sounds like a soap opera.
What was the interference causing the Radion to do? I was on the phone with Ecotech and they mentioned that if you disable the programming buttons on the light this fixes the interference issue. I am adding 4 T5s to my gen 1 fixture and I am hoping this wont be a problem.

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I still can't get over that 50 people run at 60% or less
Good idea setting up this poll however, it would have been more beneficial to set up 3 or 4 polls for the diff generation/modifications possible with the Radion. The problem is there is a big difference in intensity between what you can run a gen 1 Radion w/no TIR lenses at compared to a pro. Alot of people are running their Pros at 25-30% over SPS tanks which I doubt would render the same results for those people still using Gen 1s. If I upgraded my Gen 1 w/TIR lenses to a pro I would probably cut my intensity in half and go up or down depending on the coral response.


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Gen2. Running at 50%. These lights are strong.


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I think the people running at <=60% have their lights down close to the water.


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I have like 10 different kinds of Zoas & Palys right now and they are all loving life.


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Well it's been a week or two after dropping my photo period and my spectrum from 12k max to more like 22k max for only about 3-4hrs. All has been a positive change and the most noticeable change that was nearly instant was the zoas and palys. They exploded since the change. I may turn the Radions max intensity down even more since the sps at the top are still light and my new sps frags on the sand bed are growing well.


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Don't know if this has been answered but how does one know if they are giving to much light or not enough?


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Don't know if this has been answered but how does one know if they are giving to much light or not enough?
Coral Bleaching, Instant algea bloom


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Coral Bleaching, Instant algea bloom
Coral bleaching means what to much or not enough? Algea bloom to much or not enough?


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I'm running 8 Gen 1 radions over a 6'x3'x27" deep tank. Tank is 95% SPS. Lights hit max intensity of 75% with all channels at 100% for a few hours in the middle of the day. I tried bumping it up to 80% in the spring and it took months to recover from the bleaching that took place in some of my SPS, so I have to figure this program is the max light they can handle. I simply cannot grow chalices with this program, they cook to death in a matter of days, and I have huge issues with bleaching on fleshier LPS like open brains. However, my SPS seem to love it. I'm sure there is likely a point where I could make all corals sort of happy, but I don't want to mess with the magic sauce to make the 2 bleached out brains I have happy if it will compromise the many thousands of dollars in SPS that I have less happy.

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I'm running 8 Gen 1 radions over a 6'x3'x27" deep tank. Tank is 95% SPS. Lights hit max intensity of 75% with all channels at 100% for a few hours in the middle of the day. I tried bumping it up to 80% in the spring and it took months to recover from the bleaching that took place in some of my SPS, so I have to figure this program is the max light they can handle. I simply cannot grow chalices with this program, they cook to death in a matter of days, and I have huge issues with bleaching on fleshier LPS like open brains. However, my SPS seem to love it. I'm sure there is likely a point where I could make all corals sort of happy, but I don't want to mess with the magic sauce to make the 2 bleached out brains I have happy if it will compromise the many thousands of dollars in SPS that I have less happy.

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Here's the tank at 19 months old:
Stunning tank can you share with me your file I would like see what it looks like on my tank?

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