Radion: Natural or Artificial?

[J Rog]

Anyone perfer natural mode over artificial with the radions?

 

[Reefing Madness]

:bump2:

 

[J Rog]

Thanks for the bump! bumping again. Im very curious :tongue:

 

[IBEW41]

I have mine in the artificial mode lowered back down to 55% since adding the 3rd light last week

 

[Paul C.]

Im on artificial as well at 55%. Getting ready to go T5 hybrid.

 

[WrongGenotype]

Im running three gen1s on artificial with a max at 80% on a 90 gallon

 

[duke4130]

I have been running Jon's Graph for quite some time now.... When i had mostly sps before I was running natural but afterwards I was running Jon's graph when I had mainly z/p's and chalices It is more blue and makes the colors pop more.

 

[J Rog]

I have been running Jon's Graph for quite some time now.... When i had mostly sps before I was running natural but afterwards I was running Jon's graph when I had mainly z/p's and chalices It is more blue and makes the colors pop more.

Im running Johns Graph now after not seeing much positive results with my artificial mode I made.. But I have a couple of SPS and going for a more dominated SPS tank.. So I was thinking of going natural mode and adding my reefbrite strips for color pop..

 

[J Rog]

Im running three gen1s on artificial with a max at 80% on a 90 gallon

I have 2 gen1s on my 120. Think not enough spread? I just picked up the TIR lenses but haven't put them on yet.. Kind of nervous to.. lol

 

[WrongGenotype]

I have 2 gen1s on my 120. Think not enough spread? I just picked up the TIR lenses but haven't put them on yet.. Kind of nervous to.. lol

I was getting a lot of shadowing with only two. Added the third and there is much less. Still not perfect but definitely better than two.

 

[J Rog]

I was getting a lot of shadowing with only two. Added the third and there is much less. Still not perfect but definitely better than two.

Got ya, thats why i picked up the lenses hoping that it would fix the shadow issue

 

[J Rog]

Im on artificial as well at 55%. Getting ready to go T5 hybrid.

Are you adding a T5 set up with the radion's or are you done with the radion's?

 

[duke4130]

I have 2 gen1s on my 120. Think not enough spread? I just picked up the TIR lenses but haven't put them on yet.. Kind of nervous to.. lol

I put the TIR lenses on my Gen1 and burned a lot of stuff in my tank. I ended up taking them off after a week or two and just used the stock lenses on the Gen1

Here is a picture of my sps in my last tank. This was all done with my Gen1 in natural mode... Keep stable parameters as well as good flow and lighting your SPS will do just fine with Gen1 radion. That ice fire echinata was over 6 inches across

 

[J Rog]

I put the TIR lenses on my Gen1 and burned a lot of stuff in my tank. I ended up taking them off after a week or two and just used the stock lenses on the Gen1

Here is a picture of my sps in my last tank. This was all done with my Gen1 in natural mode... Keep stable parameters as well as good flow and lighting your SPS will do just fine with Gen1 radion. That ice fire echinata was over 6 inches across

Wow that looks great! May have to try natural mode

 

[J Rog]

What was your max % you set on natural mode?

 

[Paul C.]

Are you adding a T5 set up with the radion's or are you done with the radion's?

Im done with the Radions. Read tons of info, and talked to many fellow reefers, and think its time to try T5's with the added shimmer that only LED's can offer.

 

[Deinonych]

I use artificial mode on my Radions. I like running my actinics in the evening for an extended period of time.

 

[IBEW41]

Im done with the Radions. Read tons of info, and talked to many fellow reefers, and think its time to try T5's with the added shimmer that only LED's can offer.

I went the opposite way from mh to t5 to led and will never go back.I have an sps mainly reef after spending $220 on lamps every yr on an 8 lamp ati and a 48" reefbright led set up.

 

[J Rog]

What LED's did you switch over to?