about to order LEDs

[e46er]

Originally Posted by Doug

Agreed. If price is a problem then a pair of 120,s would work well. On my smaller tank I ran a single and that was before they added more colours.

This was grown from a tiny frag under one.

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very nice! i seem to have a hard time with anything purple to really "POP"

[Doug]

The purples & blues really look good under mine. And an orange encrusting type monti, thats a brilliant orange

And mine are 2040s. Sorry. Only 16in.

[e46er]

So reeferluke let me come over to his place to check out his d120s and I was totally impressed with them. With full intentions of ordering them when I got home but the rest of my running around for the day resulted in a couple of beers when I got home so I ended up going with the controllable 48" IT2012. My logic was 1 cord vs 4 on my controller. Sunrise sunset programming is a bonus which im still on the fence about. I'm keeping the MH fixture until I'm sure the led works for me.

[maron6977]

Good old beer - Ya gotta love it !
Trust me , you'll be so much happier that you spent the extra. Also worth more & desirable if you go to sell them .
Please update when you've tried them out for a bit !
Mark

[e46er]

Originally Posted by maron6977

Good old beer - Ya gotta love it !
Trust me , you'll be so much happier that you spent the extra. Also worth more & desirable if you go to sell them .
Please update when you've tried them out for a bit !
Mark

Yea I seem to make all my best decisions after drinking ha-ha. Resale was another factor if I decide I can't get the led to my liking and end result.
I will update for sure! Seems most people are happy with evergrow lights so hopefully I'll be another satisfied customer! Reef supplies after an email figures 2 weeks until the shipment lands so should have an update in a few months after so use

[lemon604]

I have the 48 inches evergrow. Bought it in May this year and really liked it until half of it didn't work. I'm waiting for the replacement driver right now.

[e46er]

So I got my lights a week ago, took me about 10 minutes to actually get into the package it was wrapped so well. I got them hung and played around with the settings a bit and made a custom schedule that peaks @35%for blues and whites. nothing bleached so ill be going up to 40% peak today or tomorrow whenever I get around to changing it. fans are quiet which on my old coralife MH fixture were not.
even after the fixture has been running all day its still cool to the touch which is nice.
once again I feel the cord is short. they are 7 " off the water tank is 2 feet deep and the cord cant reach the ground so unless an outlet is basically centered behind the tank you need an extension cord.

I have done a massive cleaning on my tank vacuuming out all the sand and detritus (which with my rock stacked against the back wall was a far amount that I just couldnt get to) but between the cleaner water and the LEDs my colors sure POP more. the lights were backordered 2-6 weeks when I ordered so I was hoping to get the tank fully cleaned and have the MH run for a week or 2 or more and then when the LED came I could see what the LED did for colors but they were at my door in 2 weeks and 3 days so basically I finished cleaning the tank tuesday and the lights were here wednesday after work.

will update in a few months of use but initial thoughts are Im happy with them.