Lighting

Ive been mad busy with work and all that nonsense but I thought I should keep my peeps up to date on my build. So, here is a list of what equip i have so far; Grotech Tec III NG dosing pump, mp40's, vertex GFO reactor, Apex aquacontroller, custom made sump sump 5ft long x 16 winde x 15 tall with a 3 foot refugium zone inside it 2 filter socks, Refflo Dart/ Snapper hybrid external pump, 3 Lumen max reflectors run by 3 Galaxy ballasts and using 3 250W 20,000k Radium Halides (I dont believe in LED ...

I was up at my LFS tonight, and he was ready to install his brand new Radions into the canopy fixture. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to play with these for a bit, and took pictures with my iPhone4 as time allowed. Two days ago, i posted on our Facebook/reefaddicts wall that Ecotech released information to upgrade the current LED reflector with their new TIR lens. Frank had a bag of these lens already, so I offered to swap out a pair to see what was involved. Initially I figured you had ...

so my tank has been chuggin along very nice! I got a new fixture a couple months ago, guy had a new in box outer orbit from current USA. came stock with 10k bulbs, first thing I did was swap factory t5 with ATI blu plus coral plus and Fiji purple. hqi bulbs where 10k and I was happy with growth but hated yellow color, so I bought some Phoenix 14k. upon installing the I thought they looked too blue. next day I wake up go to check everything and notice a ballast for
my t5 is out so down to ...

Do LED lights fade corals or is this just a myth?
Has anyone had problems with using LED lighting?

The sump arrived on Wednesday, I rushed home from work to get started on everything that needed to be done.



At Marc's suggestion I filled the bottom of the stand with sand instead of concrete, it took five bags of sand.



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