Thanks for taking a moment to share your experience. Given that these lights are so new it helpful to talk to individuals like yourself that are trailblazers with these new lights. Happy to hear that your corals are responding well. Any tips for things that I need to be careful with when buying the Straton’s? Thank you again.
They are about as easy as it gets other than the limited mounting options.
have you been able to setup your new Stratons with the Orphek bars? Would love to see some pics.
Speaking of acclimating....does the new ATI Stratons offer an Acclimation setting?
True. And ATI has a nice little business selling replacement bulbs.
Im really considering buying one for my 50 lagoon. Dims are 30x24x16 and im currently running a Radion xr30 g4 with reef brite kit. It just seems like the perfect light for my tank!
Yes there are individual acclimation presets for LPS, mixed corals and SPS.
A few years for now i plan to get a 48x24x21. I could pick up another unit at that point and still grow whatever i want, right?
that is great to know, I've been waiting to get this answer - thank you!
Thanks! It is 12ft. I am using the "Mixed Corals" setting. The disco ball really I only notice anyplace white, like the sand.
I got 5 stratons in a few days ago, currently sourcing the aluminum rail to custom mount them. I have a couple hanging over my tank on rigged up temporary supports. Just a few things I have noticed:
The good:
The amount of spread and par these things have is second to none. It truly is a blanket of light. Way more even than two xr15's. I got an apogee par meter out and the spread is extremely even. EVERYWHERE looks bright and lit up under these.
The light spill is low, much lower than radions or kessils at the same height.
Zero fan noise.
They are the sexiest/slimmest looking fixture, its tempting to just go all stratons (but I won't).
The bad:
There is definitely a "disco ball" effect with the shimmer of these . Compared to the light from kessils or radions it is much harsher. Things look better when I mix in kessils, so my plan is to sandwich one of my existing kessils in between each straton. I have a straton side-by-side with a g5 radion blue with diffuser and the light of the radion looks so much more pleasant and smooth. If I was mounting lights in a hood and aesthetics/lightspill/fannoise didn't matter I would probably go with radions. But exposed in a room I am sticking with stratons.
