how's the ai prime?

kacrocorals581 · Jul 4, 2015

wondering for those of you with the ai prime how do you like it? an if you think it would cover a 20x18x6.5 frag tank well thanks.

Paulday · Jul 4, 2015

Absolutely. Love these lights I have two over 60 cube. And at less then 50 percent power. Just wish the app would tell u kelvins.

Bones · Jul 5, 2015

I have had my AI Prime running over my 29g cube for several months now and it's a great little light. My tank is a BB SPS dominate tank and my acros seem happy (growing, good PE, and decent color) but I think they could use more par for better coloration. I will tell you the par readings using a apogee meter were not good at all but I don't think par meters are very accurate with full spectrum LEDs. I currently have most of the channels running at 100% for several hours a day in hopes it will offset the lack of high par. I run the whites, green, and red much lower but working on ramping up the whites still. I will be adding another Prime soon and mounting the two of them much closer to the water. I think that will make things much better and also alleviate the shading issue I am having with the single fixture. Judging by your avatar pic (nice WD by the way) you obviously like acros so I figured I would include the extra info in this post. Here are a few pics of my tank and the schedule I'm currently running.

Bones · Jul 5, 2015

Paulday said:
Absolutely. Love these lights I have two over 60 cube. And at less then 50 percent power. Just wish the app would tell u kelvins.

You must have an IPhone? The android app for the Prime has the kelvin display/function but the iPhone doesn't. I just switched over to iPhone and that was first thing I noticed with the app. Needs to be added!!

kacrocorals581 · Jul 5, 2015

very good info thanks everyone! yeah I like acro's tanks are 98% acro's the reason why I'm wondering is I'm going to set up a small 20x18x6.5 frag tank to keep frags out my main tank don't like the look, seems being as its going to be a very shallow tank I would think it would be plenty of light, either going for that or a kessil 160we just liked the prime for not needing to buy any extras to be able to control it

ca2or · Aug 15, 2015

Bones said:
You must have an IPhone? The android app for the Prime has the kelvin display/function but the iPhone doesn't. I just switched over to iPhone and that was first thing I noticed with the app. Needs to be added!!

Apple doesn't think you need it

Bones · Aug 15, 2015

Just picked up a 2nd Prime for my 29BC SPS tank...let's see how this works!!!

ca2or · Aug 15, 2015

Yep.,.. Going to pick up a second one soon as well

Reef13 · Jan 22, 2016

Bones said:
I have had my AI Prime running over my 29g cube for several months now and it's a great little light. My tank is a BB SPS dominate tank and my acros seem happy (growing, good PE, and decent color) but I think they could use more par for better coloration. I will tell you the par readings using a apogee meter were not good at all but I don't think par meters are very accurate with full spectrum LEDs. I currently have most of the channels running at 100% for several hours a day in hopes it will offset the lack of high par. I run the whites, green, and red much lower but working on ramping up the whites still. I will be adding another Prime soon and mounting the two of them much closer to the water. I think that will make things much better and also alleviate the shading issue I am having with the single fixture. Judging by your avatar pic (nice WD by the way) you obviously like acros so I figured I would include the extra info in this post. Here are a few pics of my tank and the schedule I'm currently running.

I also have a 29biocube and 1 ai prime. What are your current settings and height? do you have it centered over the tank? I'm not getting the best colors from my sps with the prime..