New LEDs over my 135g

saratj1 · Mar 8, 2013

I just got my Chinese LEDs in yesterday and have mounted them over the tank. I'm excited. I went with twilight group, I got a custom setup with no dimmer just three buttons on/off (white/blue/moonlight)
I also got kinda full spectrum, I didn't get any red or green LEDs, but I got a few warm white, 440nm, 455nm, and 460nm blue, and uv LEDs mixed in there. I also got either 60 or 90 deg optics. I can't remember. All for less than $150/ea shipped.But anyways I'm excited and thought I would share.

Here's my layout:

Here's the fts:

revsgirl · Mar 8, 2013

Looks great!

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shellynjason · Mar 8, 2013

Looks good - and wow that price is amazing.

solar · Mar 10, 2013

Close ups!!!
Looks good, what did you have before?

saratj1 · Mar 10, 2013

Here's a few pics of my tangs and mollies.

I had old t12 lights that I had got with the tank I made into my sump. This tank has only been setup since Christmas, so it's still in progress. The tangs have only been in for a couple weeks.

Here's a pic of my pink anthia

saratj1 · Mar 10, 2013

Solar, I think you are the one I got this frag off of, here's a pic of it, it's doing great btw, thanks its a nice piece .

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.AcroKiller. · Mar 11, 2013

saratj1 said:
Solar, I think you are the one I got this frag off of, here's a pic of it, it's doing great btw, thanks its a nice piece .

Is that the monti cap you got from me

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schooleyosis · Mar 11, 2013

I've heard good things about those lights from other people. Hope they do well for you. Great photo of the PBT and the arc eye!!!

saratj1 · Mar 11, 2013

schooleyosis said:
I've heard good things about those lights from other people. Hope they do well for you. Great photo of the PBT and the arc eye!!!

Thank you, this is my second order from this company, the first order I bought 1 panel, this order I bought 5. Twilight has been really a pleasure to deal with, a little bit of a language barrier at times, but nothing too bad.

saratj1 · Mar 11, 2013

iiluisii said:
Is that the monti cap you got from me

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No, I still have yours though, I just messed it up a little, I about killed it by dripping kalk that wasn't completely settled and some of the undissolved kalk collected on top of the purple montipora and killed a bunch of it, but it has since recovered well but hasn't grown much. That is a orange montipora that I got out of the frag tank at aquatic critter, it was one of my first coral purchases, it has quadrupled in size over the 10-12 months that I've had it. I noticed when my tank reached about a year old, my coral really started looking good and growing. For the first year I had spotty/ erratic polyp extension and very little growth, but now things are more stable and I get consistent good polyp extension on about all my coral except my couple pieces of Lps, for some reason Lps does not like my tank. My hammer coral that I won at the secret Santa frag swap is slowly dieing, it's polyp extension is getting worse and worse. I also have a piece of bubble coral that does the same thing.

.AcroKiller. · Mar 11, 2013

saratj1 said:
No, I still have yours though, I just messed it up a little, I about killed it by dripping kalk that wasn't completely settled and some of the undissolved kalk collected on top of the purple montipora and killed a bunch of it, but it has since recovered well but hasn't grown much. That is a orange montipora that I got out of the frag tank at aquatic critter, it was one of my first coral purchases, it has quadrupled in size over the 10-12 months that I've had it. I noticed when my tank reached about a year old, my coral really started looking good and growing. For the first year I had spotty/ erratic polyp extension and very little growth, but now things are more stable and I get consistent good polyp extension on about all my coral except my couple pieces of Lps, for some reason Lps does not like my tank. My hammer coral that I won at the secret Santa frag swap is slowly dieing, it's polyp extension is getting worse and worse. I also have a piece of bubble coral that does the same thing.

Some people can not keep hammers, frog spawns or bubble corals I dont know why. My hammer did the same for a while I just left it alone and it came back on its own

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schooleyosis · Mar 11, 2013

You don't have too much flow around the FS or bubble coral do you? I moved my FS because it was getting too big and starting to sting the monti near it. I moved it closer to the powerhead and it hated the high rate of flow. I moved the direction of the PH so it didn't blast the FS and now it is happy. I do have it under all LED's and is really high up on the rock so it has intense light and medium to high flow.

nhago · Mar 11, 2013

saratj1 said:
I just got my Chinese LEDs in yesterday and have mounted them over the tank. I'm excited. I went with twilight group, I got a custom setup with no dimmer just three buttons on/off (white/blue/moonlight)
I also got kinda full spectrum, I didn't get any red or green LEDs, but I got a few warm white, 440nm, 455nm, and 460nm blue, and uv LEDs mixed in there. I also got either 60 or 90 deg optics. I can't remember. All for less than $150/ea shipped.But anyways I'm excited and thought I would share.

Here's my layout:

Here's the fts:

Looks great! Do you mind sharing which fixture you got? I looked into the twilight groups website and I got lost in the middle of so many fixtures!

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saratj1 · Mar 11, 2013

nhago said:
Looks great! Do you mind sharing which fixture you got? I looked into the twilight groups website and I got lost in the middle of so many fixtures!

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The item number is TLA-05 , but I just told them what I wanted. You just need to email them, their selections on alibaba make no sense. Just email them and ask for a quote on a 120w aquarium led, if you like my exact setup you can mention my name (Timothy) to Wendy and she can get you set up, but they can customize it to your exact specs. The 120w led's base price is around $90, in my case I added optics and another channel with a switch for the moonlights. I also had a custom color layout which they actually did the layout I just told them that I wanted a mix of cool and warm white LEDs, and some different blue LEDs, and a couple uv's. and they sent me around three different layouts and I picked which one i liked best. I also asked for the extra switch to be able to control the moonlights.