Hydra 26 Hyper Drive

RareEarthCorals · Oct 17, 2015

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RareEarthCorals · Oct 17, 2015

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Mattrg02 · Oct 17, 2015

Could we get some acropora pics?

RareEarthCorals · Oct 17, 2015

Its lights out tonight, but I can take one in the morning. Its new and a small frag, my tank is mostly LPS and other softies. My plan is to add more since I have the light and can handle it. The back of the tank will be sps and the front everything else.

RareEarthCorals · Oct 17, 2015

Best I got from an earlier photo. The Acro is red and sitting in the back of the rock.

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RareEarthCorals · Oct 17, 2015

You want some great sps action based on a hydra 52 take a look at Tahoe61 tank here on this forum. She has some beautiful stuff.

RareEarthCorals · Oct 19, 2015

Playing with settings

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Mattrg02 · Oct 19, 2015

Can't wait to get mine ( tomorrow) and swap out the kessil 360we

RareEarthCorals · Oct 19, 2015

The only thing that would of put this light over the top would have been the ability to saving different settings. The only way to change it without losing your most important settings is manually, and you cant save it.

Mattrg02 · Oct 19, 2015

RareEarthCorals said:
The only thing that would of put this light over the top would have been the ability to saving different settings. The only way to change it without losing your most important settings is manually, and you cant save it.

Uggg, that's disappointing. Maybe they'll release a software update to fix that.

RareEarthCorals · Oct 19, 2015

Mattrg02 said:
Can't wait to get mine ( tomorrow) and swap out the kessil 360we

You are going to enjoy it! Its fun to play around with the settings. My corals have never looked so good.

Mattrg02 · Oct 19, 2015

RareEarthCorals said:
You are going to enjoy it! Its fun to play around with the settings. My corals have never looked so good.

Good to hear. My corals have been doing a slow death under the kessil. Lose colors then turn brown. Polyp extension goes away and then a week it stn finishes them off.

Never had this issue with my old diy LEDs.

Hawain_Rob · Oct 19, 2015

What size tank is that?

RareEarthCorals · Oct 19, 2015

29 Gal Biocube

jsker · Feb 27, 2016

@RareEarthCorals I am thinking about replacing my Orbit Marine LED with the Hydra 26 and was looking around at reviews and found yours. After 5 Months how is the light preforming and did you get your programming worked out?

Hawain_Rob · Feb 27, 2016

jsker said:
@RareEarthCorals I am thinking about replacing my Orbit Marine LED with the Hydra 26 and was looking around at reviews and found yours. After 5 Months how is the light preforming and did you get your programming worked out?

What size tank do you have?

jsker · Feb 27, 2016

Hawain_Rob said:
What size tank do you have?

72 gal 48L x 18 W x 21 deep I am looking a purchasing 2 hydra 26's

GOSKN5 · Feb 27, 2016

IMO, you are going to want more than 2 26s.... 2 52s would be more appropriate... I have two 26s on my 24x24 cube.....

I love the lights, I have had mine for about 3 months (just added the second a few week ago)... corals seem to be responding well and growing, I have only added one acro, but it seems to be doing ok thus far and growing fast...