Today's Poll: Lighting

What is your Preference of Lighting for a Reef Aquarium

  • Metal Halide

    Votes: 2 4.9%
  • T5

    Votes: 2 4.9%
  • Led

    Votes: 16 39.0%
  • Metal Halide and T5

    Votes: 6 14.6%
  • Metal Halide and LED

    Votes: 2 4.9%
  • T5 and LED

    Votes: 13 31.7%
  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    41

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Explain your preference of lighting your reef tank and why you choose this option.
 
I had power compacts on my very first tank. It was a 55gal. that I had set up as a see thru from my living room to the dinning room. I lived on the cape at the time and actually used sand that I gathered from the beach to start up with.
 
Started with name brand leds then black box style now I have a ati t5 setup.I like the idea of not having to worry about what percentage intensity of what color spectrums to worry about ECT. Will be adding a blue xho reefbrite so I can have the color pop of led with the convenience of t5 lighting
 
For this tank, I think this is my 5th tank [emoji848], I’m running two MH 400 watts and two 39watt actinic T5s over a 60 cube.

My reason for choosing this lighting method is because it is the most forgiving [emoji23] I have had bad luck with LEDs in the past like when the hydra 26s first came out. Unfortunately I bleached a few corals with running LEDs. I don’t know if it wasn’t blended enough or what but when I got a MH bulb over my old tank the corals did a lot better. It is more expensive IMO but it is what it is. The fixture I have now I got from Aquavim out of The Bronx. Definitely recommend them. Someday I’m gonna get one of their coffee table tanks [emoji39]


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Currently running AI Prime LED and am switching over to Radion XR15 g4 Pro. Also, I have a 36" 4 bulb t5 light waiting for tank to be up and running.
 
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