Back To Halides - Corysaurus Rex

[KING]

Hey Corey I'm doing the same combo..2 LED's and 1 400 watt metal highlight in the center. i love the look so far..

[LuckySingh]

LEDs didn't work for me either and switched completely to halides primarily . Now my new upcoming build is t5s hybrid

[CoryDude]

I know a couple others doing the same Cory. I'm sticking with my fixture hopefully soon I'll have more Sps and document growth with monthly pics.

good luck Cory keep us updated


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It will be interesting to see how things work starting a tank from point zero with LEDs. That way the sps can grow into a favorable pattern to match the lights.

CoryDude, I had the same issues with SPS are you are, they all lost color after I switched from my MH/VHO setup to my AI Vegas. What I recently figured out is that they were getting TOO much light, specifically the white LED's. I recently turned the whites down quite a bit and all of my SPS are slowly regaining their color. My orange montipora was almost all white, it's now turning orange again. My pink birdsnest was also almost all white, but now is a nice pale pink. Same story with others in the tank. I couldn't keep any acans in the tank, they would just shrivel away. I now have a colony that I got from Allan and it's doing great.

I think part of the problem for me is I have a 36" long x 18" deep x 19" tall tank, and I have two Vegas since I figured I needed to for coverage, but this is a TON of light for my 50 gallon tank.

I'm running 2 Vegas and 1 hydra on a 120, so I'm right there with you. What percentage are you running whites at?

[rrasco]

I guess I just got lucky then. Probably also helps that I never ran anything but LEDs on this tank. I'm still contemplating putting a MH on my frag tank that will be plumbed into the same water, so it would be a pretty even test. Lights would even be in different rooms, so no way for "cross-contamination". I've never used MH and wanted to see the literal difference on a controlled environment.

[zerreissen]

What percentage are you running whites at?

Whites are currently at 18%