Reef Brite LED's available in Canada

PFoster · #1 08-06-2010, 03:08 PM

Picture links are all now fixed on page 2. Sorry about that.

cherrycorals · #2 08-06-2010, 05:28 PM

Here are some pics of my home tank. To big to do all LED's.

8' wide 42" front to back 26" deep and has 2 ~ 250 watt Radium's and 4 ~ 4' all blue reef bright in front of and in back of the radiums.

cherrycorals · #3 08-06-2010, 05:30 PM

I think I will add some 2' Reef Bright's on the ends and in the middle, I need more blue.

Gooly001 · #4 08-06-2010, 06:52 PM

Uhm...thought you were running Plasma Todd.

cherrycorals · #5 08-06-2010, 08:03 PM

Ummm, no I sent it back to AI. It wasn't dimmable and I didnt like the color.

AI did inform me that it ended up failing not to long ago. He has been unable to get a replacement emitter so its a dead issue for now.

kat · #6 08-06-2010, 08:10 PM

What is the par on the LED's and is there sustainable sps tank growth and color data?

PFoster · #7 08-07-2010, 02:27 AM

We dont have any data on the Par from Reef Brite - for that matter try and find data on the PAR from any manufacturer for just about any light, its just not available.

We do have a spectral plot of each light in the Reef Brite pamphlets though.

As for keeping SPS, there are several people trying exclusively Reef Brites for this so time will tell.

We have a frag tank here that is 12" wide, 6" tall, and 48" long and are running a single Reef Brite Blue LED strip on it for about a month now. The LPS look just amazing! The acans in this tank are just an insane color and we have some of the orange torch that looks like it should melt through the tank because its radio active or something. There are a few SPS in this tank and the results are varying. The Aussie fire engine monti (green base wire red polyps) is growing very quickly and in the last month has encrusted over 1/2". We have a crazy superman monti in the tank with an awsome blue base and a metallic red poly which is doing ok, but not amazing. And we have one of the indo superman monti with the blue base but the rusty red polyps and this piece isnt doing as well. The base is decent in color but one of the pieces is starting to lighten up in color and not extending polyps very often. But lets also not forget that this tank is running EXCLUSIVELY the Reef Brite Blue LED's. Adding a 50/50 or a daylight might change the results entirely but at the moment we are testing out the coloration that you can achieve under just the blue LED's.