Led lights what brand to buy

[nrosdal]

Of the less expensive fixtures available we have Evergrow and they have been fantastic with both performance and warranty(rather then going with a generic ebay fixture with a questionable warranty/output). As for the popular more commercial fixtures it seems Mitras get best reviews with Radions and sols are usually fighting it out for 2nd and 3rd place.

JMO

[xenon]

Best bang for the buck would be the AquaIllumination Hydra's.

They are full spectrum and at a damn good price too.

[Reef Supplies]

Originally Posted by xenon

Best bang for the buck would be the AquaIllumination Hydra's.

They are full spectrum and at a damn good price too.

+ 1000

The new Hydra Fifty Two is coming out real soon at an expected $599*, the competition will be gathering around the conference table more often!

[Ron99]

Originally Posted by Reef Supplies

+ 1000

The new Hydra Fifty Two is coming out real soon at an expected $599*, the competition will be gathering around the conference table more often!

Meh. More opportunity to burn your corals or pay for a fixture you can only run at 30 to 40% power. Too many LEDs in too small a space in my opinion.

[mseepman]

If you are currently running two 400w plus blue LED, I would be looking the IT2080 to give you coverage and control.

http://www.reefsupplycanada.com/it20...-led-32-light/

I have the smaller IT2040 and find it a great light over my frag tank.

[Reeferluke]

Ya I'm thinking the evergrow it2080 would prob work. my concern is the tank brace and how much of a shadow it would cast.

[nrosdal]

Here is a link to a video i made quite some time ago with a 2080 over my tank. You can see the shadow a bit in the video(the camera does show it a bit darker then in life. But it is there). I have had some people strip off a couple rows of the optics (1 on either side of the brace) to get rid of the shadows. Some have also replaced the brace with acrylic (scares me a bit) or have gone with 2 pendant style for better coverage(but cost is a bit higher).

http://youtu.be/Y24E0WGHLNU

Just for reference, here is a video of tank at same time with 2 x d120 fixtures to show the coverage (the d120s are not programmable but it gets the point across).

http://youtu.be/mDpyHmfYjwM

[Madreefer]

IMO you will get better colors out of your corals with MH supplemented with T5s. I switched over to LEDs 2 years ago and would never switch back. I'm happy with my AIs. It was alot of tweaking and playing around with them on the switchover. I run Sol Blues and just recently picked up some Hydras.