Expensive light worth it ?

[sawdonkey]

I e been running Orphek V4s for about 4 years and I’m going to switch to something cheap. I ran Ocean Revives for 4 or so years befor that and liked them better than my Orpheks now….for 1/3 the price too.

what do you think about the Ocean Revive T247B ?

Love them, and I’d buy five right now and replace my two Orpheks if I could get my hands on them.

Let's see some photos of full grown SPS tanks using cheap knock-off lights. 3, 2, 1... go!

Grown under four Ocean Revives and nothing else. Par measurements when I just started with all frags.

 

[JCOLE]

Let's see some photos of full grown SPS tanks using cheap knock-off lights. 3, 2, 1... go!

I use all t5's now. However, a couple years ago I used all Mars Aqua black boxes and you can see my par results below. They had crazy high-PAR around 1,000 to 1300 PAR. Grew acros like crazy. In the end I just felt that it didn't provide the proper spectrum and I am getting much better color from my acros now with the T5.

Post in thread 'JCOLE's ACRO Dominant Build' https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/jcoles-acro-dominant-build.557921/post-7903350