Christian Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on acros and other sps corals for me. I'm thinking about setting up an aquarium that has just sps corals in it. I will want to have some soft corals also but I know people that have amazing sps aquariums don't have any or very little soft corals in the tank, why is that? I've been in the hobby now for about 10 years I have a 70 gallon as my main display tank. I recently moved back from corpus to austin Texas, I went to corpus for school but decided that it was not for me. Be for I moved I had a really nice show size montiapora cap that broke into 4 good size pieces and than a lot of little pieces. Now I only have one good size piece let of it because of the move. So I have keep sps before but not so much the acro or millipora corals. I was running a 4XT5HO w/Led moon lights on the tank and just recently placed 9x48" ecoxotic stunner led light strips on my tank to give the corals better color and more light The lights go in this order Front to back 445nm blue, 8000k white, 12k white/445nm blue, 445nm blue, 12k white/magenta, 8000k white 12k white/445nm blue, 445 blue, 8000k white I've got the on timers to come on for 12 hours a day 445 blue from 8am-10am 8pm-10pm The rest from 9am-9pm They are on hand dimmers from the company. But I'm wanting to keep mostly sps corals in the aquarium, so any advice on keeping them and what you do for filtration will also be helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 The stunners are intended as supplemental lights. See Ecoxotic's FAQ: http://www.ecoxotic.com/community/support/frequently-asked-questions/led-101#65 Will the Stunner grow hard coral or SPS coral? Depending on configuration and the number of Stunners used, the Stunner can support a wide variety of animal life. However, we recommend using the Stunner LED for accenting the colors of coral and using it to supplement other lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 What are your PAR levels? There's no doubt you can find SOME species/variants that will grow under the lighting you have but not knowing the intensity my guess it's going to be hit or miss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I consider the stunners purely ornamental on my tank and don't even calculate them into the amount of par. I am using a blue setup purely for dawn to dusk lighting. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingjames Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 (edited) i have a 4ft blue stunner fixture that i use for suplemental lighting that i got from a member that has a sps dominated tank that was using multiple stunner strips to light his tank with success, now that being said i have no clue on the par they put out, but i do know that my stunner strip comes on two hours before my MH and every single coral i have reacts to the stunner strip and are fully expanded and open by the time my MH come on, so that being said there is also a total of 75 leds on my strip....they do put out some kind of par IMO but how much i cant state for sure....IMO with 9 four ft strips would add up to about 675 total leds, i would assume you are getting a decent amount of par but like i said this is soley my opinion and i would borrrow a par meter to be sure. Edited May 22, 2014 by kingjames Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted May 22, 2014 Author Share Posted May 22, 2014 What are your PAR levels? There's no doubt you can find SOME species/variants that will grow under the lighting you have but not knowing the intensity my guess it's going to be hit or miss.I don't have a par reader but I should probably invest in one lol. i have a 4ft blue stunner fixture that i use for suplemental lighting that i got from a member that has a sps dominated tank that was using multiple stunner strips to light his tank with success, now that being said i have no clue on the par they put out, but i do know that my stunner strip comes on two hours before my MH and every single coral i have reacts to the stunner strip and are fully expanded and open by the time my MH come on, so that being said there is also a total of 75 leds on my strip....they do put out some kind of par IMO but how much i cant state for sure....IMO with 9 four ft strips would add up to about 675 total leds, i would assume you are getting a decent amount of par but like i said this is soley my opinion and i would borrrow a par meter to be sure. Yeah all my corals open up and react to the lights also. And they look amazing I have a flower pot coral that was brown under t5ho lights and is now turning neon green so their doing something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 FYI as an ARC paid member, you can borrow PAR meters and other equipment 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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