coral advise needed

[Tphill]

Hello. I'm looking to add a specific color to a softie dominated tank. I have a spot in the tank where I'd like to have something hot pink, or Barbie pink. The spot is close to the top of the rockwork, so it is somewhat bright light. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[markkazdad]

Under blue LED lights, our orange monti cap looks hot pink.

 

[walkerbrody]

Pink birdsnest maybe. I have some hot pink yummas that might work there too.

 

[Tphill]

Hey guys, thanks for the suggestions. In one of my other tanks I have some orange monti cap, but mine is orange under the actinics. I also have some pink birdsnest in that tank. It doesn't do anything under actinics. The tank that I'm looking for this piece for is softie's only. Leathers, toadstools, mushrooms, ricordeas, zoas and palys. I don't really think I want to put any sps in this tank. Walkerbrody, would you be interested in selling one or more of those yumma's? Could they be put up high in the tank? I have one yumma in there, and it seems to like the shade. Also, I'm thinking of getting a pipe organ coral, would this be better in the softie tank or in my lps/sps tank? Thanks.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Some zoanthids come in pretty pink like Barbie doll pink that you want. I've seen some real hot pink Ricordia yuma. I have one with rainbow colored bumps on hot pink base/body.

Hot pink colors are hard to render with an LED fixture without colored diodes. The one with just cool white and blue LED's will make all hot pink corals look dull brown. A full spectrum LED fixture on the other hand does a decent job making hot pink look really pretty. My pink pompom xenia looks very nice pink now under a full spectrum LED fixture from Reef Radiance. It looks nicer under the full spectrum LED's than under MH. I am pretty sure that it's warm white (6500K) primarily (and a red diode to some degrees) that bring out the pretty pink colors. Pink xenia looked really pink with the white LED's on and the light of red diodes blocked with black tapes (I tested.)

 

[Tphill]

I have an OR IT-2080 over this tank. I've noticed a couple colors look better under this light than they did under the t-5's that were over it previously. The yellow's are yellow again. Under the t-5's they were orange. Purple is now purple instead of brown. I have a diy led fixture that is just white and blue over another tank. I haven't noticed any difference in colors moving coral's from that tank to the tank with the IT-2080, but I haven't moved any pink coral either. All the different shades of yellows, reds, oranges, greens and blues all seem to be very similar under the 2 different led fixtures. I will say this. I'm planning on setting up 3 more tanks that will replace and consolidate 5 of the 6 tanks in the house currently, and all 3 of the new tanks will have programmable led fixtures from the OR IT line.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

I have been considering two Evergrow IT-2080 for my 180. I saw IT-2040 over Trish's tank, and I like it better than Reef Radiance's light of mine. It's good to know someone else likes IT line fixtures.

 

[Tphill]

I do like the IT fixture I have. I think I misspoke a bit in one of my posts. The 100 gallon tank that we are currently acquiring parts for has metal halide currently. This is a 5-foot tank and presents a bit of a problem with the current led fixtures on the market. I believe the best fit size wise would be the ReefBreeders 48" fixture, but I don't think I'll like the color, compared to the IT-2080. 2 of the IT 24" fixtures would just cost too much. So it looks like for the forseeable future, this tank will have the MH supplemented with diy led multi-chips.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

I would love to see the color of IT-2080. Do you know if it looks very much like IT-2040? I like the look of Trish's IT-2040 on her tank.

 

[Tphill]

I have not seen the IT-2040. I do know that the OR version of the IT2080 has 3 different whites with 36 total, and no yellow/orange diodes, whereas the evergrow version has only 24 whites in 2 different colors, and 4 more violets and 4 480nm blues that mine doesn't have. I don't really know what the difference in appearance would be, but I like mine.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Gosh, there are so many variations among these lights!! I know I like Evergrow IT-2040. I need to find out if I can see Evergro IT-2080 before I purchase one.

 

[Tphill]

I know what you mean. I was feeling that way before I purchased this one. But at the price they offered it at the time, was hard to pass up, especially when I was looking at over $100 to replace t-5 bulbs that I really didn't like the look of in the first place. The programmability is wonderful. T-5's and MH's can't do that.