I see the question all the time, "do you get good growth?" It's impossible to compare. It's not like you wake up one morning and notice a 1" of growth that wasn't there yesterday.
Are the corals growing? Yes they are, but they were growing when I had T5's on the tank.
If you are looking for sudden growth spurts, IMO nothing is going to do that, unless you start with real crappy lights and acclimate them right.
You could set the lights to a 7k and get more growth than my color.
There are other templates that are listed as growth templates, but I would amagine that the color would not be to my liking.
I like my tanks to look a 14k to 20k, which is pleasing to my tastes.
Besides, I've only had the Radion over my 50 for a couple months and the 3 over my 240 only a few weeks. lol
As far as my times, I have the lights ( both sets) start to come on at 9am. They start very slowly, then ramp up to the maximum around 11 to 12 and stay in that range until 2-3 and then start ramping down and go off at around 8:30.
There are 5-6 preset templates that you can use. You have to get ESL up and running to see what I mean. You will see how they ramp up and for how long, etc. Once you do you will see them and be able to make a choice.
You can make your own program or modify one of the existing programs.
I would strongly suggest you use the acclimation program. IMO no matter what other lights you have used, leds will burn your corals if you don't acclimate them some how.
