An Update from TheBlackReef

Back in January last year we posted a video from one of our hobbyists “The Black Reef” showing his aquarium conversion from metal halides to LED lights on a 90 gallon aquarium. Yesterday we received an updated video showing the coral growth after 7 months. “Ecoxotic 216 Watt LED Lighting System I’ve had them on my tank for 7 months now and thing look great! I added a lot of blue LED’s and only running 216 watts a lot better than the 760 I had before. I live in Florida and the fact that LED’s run 1/10 of the heat that MH do was the best thing.”




6 Responses to “An Update from TheBlackReef”

  1. mchiareli says:

    It’s looking pretty cool.

    could you describe which leds did you added to the panorama fixture?

  2. admin says:

    The fixtures he is using are the 23.5″ Panorama LED fixtures with one additional 453nm Actinic Blue Panorama Module added to each light fixture.

  3. mchiareli says:

    Looks like he as 3 Blue module and 2 stunner in each panorama fixture.

    I’m asking because i have a tank if the same size, and two 23 Panorama fixture, and I added 5 blue stunner in each panorama,

    So does the blue module has more “power” than the blue stunner? Should I use the module instead of stunner, or does not have a significant difference?

    Thanks.

  4. admin says:

    Yes, the Panorama LED Modules are a but more powerful than the Stunner LED strips, so they will produce more color & more shimmer at a deeper depth. The Stunners provide more color, but its not quite as noticeable as the Panorama Modules.

  5. Edward says:

    How long do you run your LED ? white?and blue? I have the 17.1/2 panorama on my 60 cube that I just started. This is my first reef tank. I planing to do mixed corals.

  6. Ecoxotic says:

    We normally recommend running the LED’s 10 hours per day and leave the blue Stunner LED strip included with your fixture on 24 hrs. per day.

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