eBay leds

coralguy89 · Jun 7, 2012

So anyone heard anything about these units if there. Worthwhile lookig to pick some up anyone have any that. Can give me a review or has anyone heard anything ?

impur · Jun 7, 2012

I picked one up to see how it would do. They really are great fixtures and well made IMO. The fans are a bit noisy, but other than that they are solid. But unfortunately I don't think they work well with corals. I suspect the white LEDs are not the correct spectrum, and thus leads to pastel coloring of all corals. But I will say corals grew incredibly fast under the light for the ~2m I had it over my frag tank

Some pics for you

coralguy89 · Jun 7, 2012

I was looking to pick up 4. For my display a 180 and then but one over my frag tank so your. Corals grow just arnt as bright ?

returnofsid · Jun 7, 2012

Since there's probably hundreds of Ebay led fixtures available, each with totally varying levels of quality, you're probably going to be a bit more specific when asking for feedback...

coralguy89 · Jun 7, 2012

TaoTronics 120W Aquarium Coral Reef Tank

returnofsid · Jun 7, 2012

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impur · Jun 7, 2012

coralguy89 said:
I was looking to pick up 4. For my display a 180 and then but one over my frag tank so your. Corals grow just arnt as bright ?

No the color from the corals changed, instead of bright green with orange eyes on my oregon mummy eye, it turned almost seafoam color, and the orange became brownish. Everything looked washed out. I also got a pretty bad case of cyano in there.