Reef Brite LED's available in Canada

[kat]

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

[PFoster]

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.

[purelife]

Currently i am running ATI Sunpower 6X54 on my tank right now. I want to swap out the light as its overkill for what i am keeping. Mainly just fish, Zoos, and the odd LPS.

I was thinking getting either the following:

2 50/50 48"
1 Blue 48"
or

1 Blue 48"
1 white 48"
1 50/50 48"

What would be the better combo

[PFoster]

What size is your tank?

On the nano tank build that we posted on the forum here there wered 2 50/50 and 2 actinic fixtures and I really liked the coloration of this combo so tis is what I would advise.
If you are going for just three fixtures then I would probably use the 2 x 50/50 1 x actinic, but it does really hinge on the depth of your tank.

[purelife]

48L x 24W x 18.5H
I'm planning on 4 eventually but starting with 3

[tparsons]

Ok, to start I would use:
2 50/50 48"
1 Blue 48"

Then when you can add another strip down the road I would add another of the blue 48" LED fixtures.

Are you going to mount these in a canopy, built your own brackets or use the reefbrite brackets?

[purelife]

I plan to use the Reef brite bracket if i can find them.

[kaboom]

The original models came with adjustable controller, and the new ones don't. I would like to purchase a few strips with with the adjustable controller, where can I find these in Canada?

[tparsons]

Check out this Nano from a Local Reef Shop in Ottawa, Marinescape, which has been retro-fit with

1 x 12" ReefBrite Daylight
and
1 x 12" ReefBrite Actinic!



To mount the 2 Reef Brites they just removed the existing hardware and put the 2 fixtures in behind the biocube's protective acrylic shield.

[tparsons]

This tank was converted at the beginning of December 2010 and check out how well these corals have been doing under the LED's.

Here is a macro shot of some nice Fiji Zoanthids in the tank:


Some nice zoanthids from Vietnam:


An Ultra Grade Aussie Acan:


Now of course the first question that people ask when it comes to LED lighting and maintaining corals is "what about sps?"


They even have 4-5 differnt SPS which are doing very well in this tank or the nice acan garden in the center of the tank.

We will get some more pictures for your shortly as we follow the success of this tank.