Evergrow d120 tank progression shots

[rufus2008]

I am sooo glad that I bought these lights! I've only had them running at 75% whites and 100% blues for the last 2 weeks. This is the maximum intensity that I plan on running them. I've had the lights since April but have been cautiously ramping them up since then. They are over a 108 gallon 5 foot hagen tank. Here's some pictures
Growth has been amazing!!!!!

 

[rufus2008]

I forgot to post the picture of how we mounted them. This way there is very little chance of salt spray (that is what killed my last lights)

This also shows my deltec mce600 at work.

 

[ozone]

Hi, I have one of these units and am still experimenting because with some corals I am getting great polyp extension and others, like my mushrooms, just wont expand at all.
I am getting great growth on my Blue tipped ( monti) I think it is, excuse my ignorance im not much into sps yet, but only a little growth on my red plating monti!!!....excellent polyp extension on my hammer but not much on my frogspawn.
There just is no balance I can find.
Do you have any advice so I can keep trying to solve this imbalance.

I think it is a great light unit, very very happy, so happy that I am thinking of upgrading to a IT2060 Programmable version or if I can find out where to get one, maybe a Lumini Glisten 150R2.
Anyway,, thank you,
John,
A newbie

 

[rufus2008]

The only advice I can give is make small changes slowly. I've heard people saying that they wouldn't run the whites any higher than 50% but I have mine at 75 with no apparent problems. My merulina was the coral of mine that took the longest to adjust. It started to bleach ever so slightly so I backed of the intensity for a week then ramped it back up and all seems well. Good luck

 

[rufus2008]

It's been a long time since I updated this thread so here's a recent picture of the same tank with same lighting and a few new inhabitants. Only change I made to settings is full strength (100%) on both channels.

 

[ritter6788]

Looks great! Are you running the LEDs with optics or did you remove them?

 

[rufus2008]

Made no adjustments to these lights except for increasing the channels to 100% so I'll have to say no I didn't remove the optics.

 

[Anthony kolodziej]

Only thing I can see is that timer . Get rid of it asap get a better one . I don't trust those timers at all due to fires

 

[rufus2008]

Only thing I can see is that timer . Get rid of it asap get a better one . I don't trust those timers at all due to fires

Can you recommend one that has 3 outlets? This was the only ones locally I could find that were equipped with a built in timer.

 

[Dtackett]

remember @rufus2008 you can daisy chain those lights and only use 2 plugs. I use a digital timer from home depot. paid 15 bucks for it.

 

[rufus2008]

remember @rufus2008 you can daisy chain those lights and only use 2 plugs. I use a digital timer from home depot. paid 15 bucks for it.

Explain this please. Does that mean I can connect all lights together and only have one set of plugs?

 

[Dtackett]

Nevermind. I thought yours had the ability but it doesn't. On some of the evergrows you will see a second set of plugs so you can plug the lights into each other. yours cant do that.

 

[Anthony kolodziej]

get the ones from aquacave or marine depot that have 2 plugs from hamilton and then connect them to a good power strip made of metal or an outdoor rated one

 

[rufus2008]

Couple more shots.

 

[rufus2008]

Toad stoole (the rock it was on ) decided to make a move on its own and this is where it landed. I kind of like the new spot and I think I'm going to leave it.

 

[rufus2008]

Thinned out some of my soft coral and large clam to make more swimming room for fish and also give me an excuse to get some new coral lol. Here's the tank now.

I'm alot happier with it. It was just getting way to crowded ( did I say that lol)

 

[rufus2008]

The cardinals looking to be the carpets next meal lol.