Tanks and Corals under LED Lighting
 

LED lighting has been in the market for a couple years, and many hobbiests like me are curious to see how well it has been doing. Please post a few pictures here if you have tanks with LED lighting. Here is mine,

Oceanic 6 foot bowfront 175G under Solaris I4 , setup in Dec.2007, most SPS grow from frags.
http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s...i-80205051.jpg


http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s...i-80205087.jpg



http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s...i-80205069.jpg


http://i509.photobucket.com/albums/s...i-80205034.jpg



James

my tank right before my I-4 LEDs went out.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLan...localeid=en_US

I have a chronicle of my Solaris 180 on another site.

The LED fixtures I have seen are not as good as the tanks lit by halides OR T5.....not to mention the huge cost difference. (spare me the chiller savings talk at this point and the LED's that are supposed to last forever - check with a Solaris user about that)

The other issue is PATENT.......is Orbitec the ONLY one who CAN legally sell LED lights for aquariums????

This seems to be an up in the air question....especially with PFO out of the game as a result of this.

grigsy:

Thanks for your post but I believe this is a thread for people to show off their tanks under LEDs, not for you to comment on the ad nauseum LED/Halide/T5 debate.

For those that did post (James), what percentages are you running and what is your light cycle like?

bklynreefdue,

I set up 100% for the lights, and run from 8am to 9pm for daylight, and 9pm to 3am for lunar light.

Yes, can anybody post a few of their tank pictures with LED light in this thread?

James

Thanks James. After a year I am still twiddling with the lights. I've just added several acros after success with one, but they don't seem to be responding. I've got about the same cycle but have never gone past 85%, maybe I should. I'm doing a big re-aquascape this weekend and if I like the results I'll snap some pics and throw them up.

Matt

My tanks only a few months old so still very unstable. I have a few sps frags that are slowly encrusting and showing signs of nice colour. A few of the sps stags are rather brown but there making a slow come back.

My leds are diy 20 cree xr-e q5 whites (with 20 degree optics) and 6 blue cree xre leds.

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...sli/ftsnew.jpg

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...wtankstart.jpg

Beautiful and clean setup.

Do you have lots of hobbyists in Australia?

Are there lots of them using LED light?

Any major website for the hobbyists there?

James

I'm one of the first I've seen with a diy build but lots of local members have started recently.

Masa is the biggest reefing site in Aus I know. I have a tank jornal on masa, a good Tj to look at is Stripfisheel's BIGGG Tank for us Aussies at least.

http://www.masa.asn.au/phpBB2/index....932e66953be37a

Heres my tank. Basically staring with LEDs. I love them so far
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...S/DSCF1487.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...S/DSC_0015.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c2...S/DSC_0056.jpg
Thinking about upgrading the lamp a little... Maybe 12 more LEDs but I love how small and sleek the lamp is right now

sammy, that's an awesome light. Did you buy that or build it yourself?

Totally sick Sammy. Very nice setup.

Thanks! All DIY. Thread on red house

I think I might consider a cube for my next build after looking at these two clean setups.

+1

I hear nanocustoms is doing their own thing as well. It's a PFO powered LED. (simply quoting what they wrote) Can't link to their thread, because I guess it's on a "banned" website that RC and Nano reefs have. I hope I can post pictures...


Pictures:


http://www.nanocustoms.com/development/NC28/1.jpg

http://www.nanocustoms.com/development/NC28/2.jpg

http://www.nanocustoms.com/development/NC28/4.jpg

http://www.nanocustoms.com/development/NC28/5.jpg

http://www.nanocustoms.com/development/NC28/6.jpg

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0slbYKrklo


Pricing is supposed to be "around" $400 for the LED hood for a 29g tank.

LED lights are the future not only for reef tanks. they produce so much more light with less electricity. They may never be us bright us MH but I am confident that in near future they will get close.

I am pretty sure the new wave of LED's can get very close, if not eclipse MH, with a fraction of the heat and electricity (as you mentioned). But with a deadly cost, if not DIY'd.

The cost will come down over time as does all new inventions and gadgets.

sorry but what's redhouse?

It's the button next to the "PM" button. It's a little red house.


Here's his thread for you:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...readid=1658978

it's the icon on the toolbar above the space where you read the thread. some people have documented their builds and that is a hyper link to it

awesome thanks

Biocube 29 LED
 

12 Blue 12 White Luxeon K2s running on 700ma meanwells. Running for a couple weeks now on the LEDs moving from the stock 72W Compact Fluorescents, so far corals seem happy under them.

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showp...t=1&thecat=500
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/...ocube_LEDs.jpg

Let's try posting the photos again...
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/...29_biocube.jpg

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/...ocube_LEDs.jpg