goldenbasketreef

4500K is about NW and usually already has a lot of red and green spectrum in it. If you are using another deep red 660nm would it adding a lot more red in the mix? I would consider using more 470nm and 400-410nm since you are lacking this spread, non fluorescence will show better. Amber will be a good choice to add instead of red. Your non fluorescence red, orange and pink will show better. I would also suggest using 90 degree optic for better blending of your light, 60-70 degree optic is a more spotlight. 300W is a lot of light. For comparison 16 USA brand diodes is about 125-150W of T5. Have you look into individual led that are more efficient and less electricity to run?

I have been in the business for quite some time and has used PC, T8, T5, MH, and now LED. It is not the question if any of the fore mentioned reef light source will grow or color corals better. They each serve the purpose for their time. As technology progress so does the knowledge to utilize this technology. The more sophisticated the more end user understanding required. T5 & MH is more plug and play lighting, it is very rare we make mistake with these two light source and available option is not that much to select the right combination. Less and less manufacture producing the bulb and eventually they will become obsolete. LED is a new breed of light source that produce by many manufactures and each with their separate binning or non binning process. With that we have quite a lot of variances in regards to nm spectrum and live span of the diodes itself. Blue led for example will vary spectrum wise base on brand. It is not a plug and play. We have to know what combination of diodes and what brand being put into a fixture, we also need to understand how to color balance our fixture. It is way worst when you have only 2 channels to balance most of the affordable fixture. This is where the issue that some people having problem or not getting good result from led fixture. It is more complex than what we used to with just plug and play. Fixture design is another whole issue that need a thread by itself. GB is 100% led for about 3-4 years now. We have china made led with china diodes, china made led with USA diodes, and DIY. IME china made led with china diodes lasted only 2.5 years, ymmv, the big issue I see is spectrum shift and also intensity lost. Yup that is pretty much sum it up, diodes rating are lies, even worst with china led. Of course some will argue that with cooling it will increase diodes live span. Well for a very simple thing as checking the fan and making sure they run properly to cool the unit, how many have even bother to do this? I would bet not many. When the fan failed the led fixture will be toast. It is tacky to rate the led fixture for many years of operation when the fan itself only rated for 2 years or so live span. My suggestion for those running led fixture have a fan or two on hand. One thing I know for sure when we switch from T5 & MH to all LEd fixture, our electric bill went down by 45%. That is significant monthly saving for a company with high electric bill.

One buyer of Rainbow Envy took this picture under heavy Royal Blue Led. Looks RE has more color than WD.

Exotic collector corals with record high price. We hold record for highest price paid for Zoa & Chalice. Now, congrats to Mattv for hitting the record high price of a grand for his Rainbow Envy Acropora Frag....Just Wow... Yes, it is not a misprint, he just sold a frag of Rainbow Envy Acropora for $1,000.00 on facebook auction. MATTV RAINBOW ENVY

I thought it is similar to flavorparade

Canon Powershot D30 Nikon Coolpix AW130 Olympus Tough TG-850 The above cameras are all can be used underwater without special case. I would clean in freshwater after use in saltwater tank.

First picture looks familiar. Is that what I think it is?

Just recently received this hallucination morph zoa for grow out.

Howdy, good to be back in here. Thank you.

Tim's Jamba Juice & HGH

Again, enough discussion for several weeks on and off. We can't put words in the mouth of current officers and bods. We just need to encourage them to discuss and make decision in a timely manner (matter of days) This club / site can't afford another week/s of dilemma not moving forward. Officers and bods need to reach out to whoever left here with admin capabilities to come up with solutions. Fixing the site has become a #1 immediate goal for the club. There is also another issue with too many officers/bods turn around. But this is not and issue, IMO, because come election time when you all exercise your right to vote this issue will automatically taken care off.

Actually US led manufacture such as cree and dycon has far better product out in a while now. Philips also among the leading manufactures for high output led. Unfortunately this type led designed for utilities and architectures in general so this has little use on reef aquarium application. Our corals will have better sun tan with this led for sure...lol...you know the color of sun tan...

I think Kevin was saying that the least cost and better option is to go to IPB. Some IT expert need to explain to the mass why so. Backward option to vb4 require additional time and money and also we have an issue with share server that need to be addressed also sooner the better. What we need is not just keep talking about what has been or what if but concrete plan to bring this plan into motion so the site get fixed for good. What and where is the hold up that is what we need to hammer. Hammering each other bring us to square one and never ending story. If the club need to form special committee do it immediately don't procrastinate.

+1 on coraline algae, that shadow spot may be hit by disco effect of the led shimmering. So only green color become dominant. Letting more light in that area or stir the gravel should fix it.

Enough chit chat, just fix this place for good, so there is a fun place to to talk about fish and corals All the issues stemming from only the dysfunctional site Once the site running normal all issues automatically addressed at the same time

Ouch...left a few days, come back still at controversy What happened with lovey dovey Since when this site become like RC style moderating

Plan to fix the forum comes with a cost. Everyone ever have an idea about the cost for either options, rolled back or migrate to new. May be this cost issue that has been putting a break on progress.

What Randy said is that whatever we discuss about getting the site move forward has to include the current team. A plan has to come from within this current team, otherwise we are belittling and disrespect the current team.

Micah, from my understanding new forum software comes with many optimization capabilities. Utilizing / tweaking this optimization options will affect bandwidth, data space, memory, code execution time, etc All these parameters are server capability dependent. Is IP.Board still offering their own hosting in one package with the software. Are current server up for the tweaking? Looking at what it has poorly done for the vbulletin when you tweaked it, I doubted the current server up to task.

hmmm...should we address the current server capability first before deciding on new software. New software require better server for it to function properly. This current platform if moved to better server it will function much faster. Need ample room to play so do speak.

Listen to Garret, TPA simply delivers...Nice Sales!

IMO, the new software should be implemented in a separate new site parallel to this one, after the new one functional only then we can move to the new software. Archiving old data should be implemented into the new site. I think this is what Micah was talking about then. He said it is difficult to debugging ongoing site because too many uncontrolled variables. We have plenty of IT people here, I hope many can voice your solution to this issue. This way all criticism in the discussion will be built in the new site before this going into motion.

where is bomber? he has been looking for one like this nem a while.

Email is the best for now Charles.

Wow...you know how to please customers with these goodies. I can use one leg of that insane nem