No love for MH?

[X-37B]

For stags I have a purple stag.
It was blue in the tank it came from.
It was a 2" frag when I put it in.
A blue stag that is more green and purple now.
A blue matrix x 2.
The darker green one has blue tips and is an old school surf and turf.
A green slimer colony that based for a year now and is finaly going upward.
My foxface nibbles on the tips now and I may have to remove. It wont be easy.
A couple of other unknown wild ones.
The one on the bottom near the orange goniapora is a wild stag that has shown some amazing growth since the Halides have gone online.
Here is a pic.

 

[PBnJOnWheat]

It may grow better but with the money saved on the electricity bills you can likely buy bigger frags. Make up for that growth time in cost IMO. LED GANG WYA

 

[chris_san]

 

[chris_san]

Ra

 

[A. grandis]

straton

T5 look.

 

[chris_san]

Radium
Pardon

 

[A. grandis]

Great power. What ballasts?

 

[PBnJOnWheat]

You really can’t beat that though. Absolutely stunning.

 

[PBnJOnWheat]

Why don’t we just use the sun, like have your tank in the wall or something where sunlight breaches or outside? I guess the outdoor temperature would be an issue among other things but if it’s about the best quality of light why do we try to bring it indoors instead of try to develop tanks outdoors?

 

[chris_san]

Oui, c'est juste incomparable.

 

[A. grandis]

It may grow better but with the money saved on the electricity bills you can likely buy bigger frags. Make up for that growth time in cost IMO. LED GANG WYA

With the growth speed under halides (which is actually the speed they grow in the ocean) you can frag and sell, and still enjoy the corals growing healthy with the colony formation they supposed to have.

 

[A. grandis]

Why don’t we just use the sun, like have your tank in the wall or something where sunlight breaches or outside? I guess the outdoor temperature would be an issue among other things but if it’s about the best quality of light why do we try to bring it indoors instead of try to develop tanks outdoors?

You can, if the place you live allows you too. But because most of us will use close systems (aquariums), we would need a more serious temperature control if we choose the sun. With halides we can control temperature easier and we still have the option to have a bluer spectrum, like the 10K, 14K or even the 20K for those who like more blue.

 

[A. grandis]

For stags I have a purple stag.
It was blue in the tank it came from.
It was a 2" frag when I put it in.
A blue stag that is more green and purple now.
A blue matrix x 2.
The darker green one has blue tips and is an old school surf and turf.
A green slimer colony that based for a year now and is finaly going upward.
My foxface nibbles on the tips now and I may have to remove. It wont be easy.
A couple of other unknown wild ones.
The one on the bottom near the orange goniapora is a wild stag that has shown some amazing growth since the Halides have gone online.
Here is a pic.

Love them! You're doing great!!!!!

 

[chris_san]

 

[X-37B]

It may grow better but with the money saved on the electricity bills you can likely buy bigger frags. Make up for that growth time in cost IMO. LED GANG WYA

Age old myth that keeps people from trying Halides, imo.
Running 2 250 watt mh 8hrs a day does not cost much at all.
After all the money people spend on reefing the cost is minimal at best.
All my friends run leds and have awesome tanks.
All my corals have been grown from frags.
I enjoy the growing journey and my tank is comming up on 21 months now.
Peace brother run what works for you I do.

 

[A. grandis]

Oui, c'est juste incomparable.

Quels ballasts utilisez-vous avec les ampoules? Pouvez-vous montrer une photo des ballasts?
Edit: vous venez de publier ci-dessus. Merci!

 

[Bronx19]

It may grow better but with the money saved on the electricity bills you can likely buy bigger frags. Make up for that growth time in cost IMO. LED GANG WYA

You saving nothing with LED. You only recoup the upfront price difference after 7-8 years, at which point you buy the latest LED again.

 

[polyppal]

MH vs LED like is like comparing an old 80s nitrous V8 drag racer to a modern turbo one... They’re both work, but the modern one is much more energy/cost efficient in the long run...

I almost went with MH on my new system, but ended up returning the halide kit and doing a T5s/Reefbrite thing instead. The halides are just too bulky, hot, and energy inefficient for me (and I wasn’t impressed with the famous Radium color)

 

[X-37B]

With the growth speed under halides (which is actually the speed they grow in the ocean) you can frag and sell, and still enjoy the corals growing healthy with the colony formation they supposed to have.

I actualy have a skylignt that shines on my frag tank.
It lignts it up before the Halide comes.
Has great shimmer.
You would need a few and it would be interesting to implement if you lived in an area that could support it.

 

[PBnJOnWheat]

Age old myth that keeps people from trying Halides, imo.
Running 2 250 watt mh 8hrs a day does not cost much at all.
After all the money people spend on reefing the cost is minimal at best.
All my friends run leds and have awesome tanks.
All my corals have been grown from frags.
I enjoy the growing journey and my tank is comming up on 21 months now.
Peace brother run what works for you I do.

So running halides is just as energy efficient as LED’s?