T5 + LED (Radions mostly) - How's it going for you?!

[leepink23]

Are you still running your Radions on the AB+ system? What intensity?

I am, I have the intensity at max 45 with Apex Fusion. Previously was at like 85 without T5. This gives me even par around 250-300 around 15 inches down in the tank which is where my sps are

 

[rossco]

Wow your tank looks fantastic! What did you modify on the AB+ program? Are you running diffusers?

Thanks!
No diffusers, I lowered both white channels and the green and red to 20 percent. The red tapers to 10 percent over the main photo period. There is a 3 hour ramp up with the blue channels in the AM, and in the PM, with an extended low level blue ramp down in the evening so I can view the tank until I go to bed.
Looks like this:

 

[North Borders]

Thanks!
No diffusers, I lowered both white channels and the green and red to 20 percent. The red tapers to 10 percent over the main photo period. There is a 3 hour ramp up with the blue channels in the AM, and in the PM, with an extended low level blue ramp down in the evening so I can view the tank until I go to bed.
Looks like this:

How long do you run your T5's for? How far off the surface do you have your unit?

 

[rossco]

I just run the T5's for 4 hours, from 11 AM til 3 PM.
The Radions are 9 inches above the water

 

[leepink23]

I just run the T5's for 4 hours, from 11 AM til 3 PM.
The Radions are 9 inches above the water

I decreased mine to 4 hours a day which seems like a sweet spot for my tank.

 

[ShadowR55]

I'm getting growth but colors starting to fade running C+, B+, C+, B+. I run them for 8 hours all on and then off, with Radions supplementing for about 12 hours a day set to ramp on the AB+ schedule until about 6pm and then they decrease down to a night blue level.

If your colors are fading, you probably have too long of a light period. Or too high of an intensity.

 

[North Borders]

I'm starting to think that's my issue. I originally ramped my t5's up to 6 hours and then 7 and then 8. I didn't think it was the lighting, but now it's starting to make sense reading other's experiences. I think I might knock the t5's down to 4 hours a day. I just realized I wasn't even running the AB+ program. I had just blues and UV's picked somehow and was running those for like 8 hours with the t5's, so yeah probably fading the corals out due to that. I'm going to switch that back to the AB+ program and run a schedule similar to Rossco's while knocking the intensity down a bit to start and see if I can't get some color back.

 

[ShadowR55]

I'm starting to think that's my issue. I originally ramped my t5's up to 6 hours and then 7 and then 8. I didn't think it was the lighting, but now it's starting to make sense reading other's experiences. I think I might knock the t5's down to 4 hours a day. I just realized I wasn't even running the AB+ program. I had just blues and UV's picked somehow and was running those for like 8 hours with the t5's, so yeah probably fading the corals out due to that. I'm going to switch that back to the AB+ program and run a schedule similar to Rossco's while knocking the intensity down a bit to start and see if I can't get some color back.

How’s it working for you?

 

[North Borders]

How’s it working for you?

Seemed to be going fairly well. I got about 2 weeks into the new schedule and things were starting to look a bit better. Then I had to move apartments so rebooted the tank at the new place and completely redid the aquascape. So it'll probably be a month or so before the corals calm down and I can start to really play with the lighting. I did swap my bulbs to 2 blue+ and 2 actinic. Also changed the Radion programming over to what WWC is running on their show tanks (essentially a tweaked AB+ schedule). I was starting to raise the light off the water more in the couple weeks before the move and in the new place I currently have it about 14" off the water line.

 

[chicago]

tagging along.. tanks look great

 

[SrBlonde]

I'm running 3 Radion XR30's with 2 60 inch T5 Blue Plus over my 6 foot 210. My tank is mature, and I was running an 8 bulb T5 retro with a Reefbrite blue strip until I changed in April. Growth is still good and colors are fantastic. I run a modified AB+ program at 65 percent. The T5's run for only 4 hours.

Here's the photo I posted in the side shot thread last week.

Do you have any LPS I your tank. If so, how are they doing?

 

[rossco]

Do you have any LPS I your tank. If so, how are they doing?

None really to speak of anymore. I had some sort of event that wiped out nearly all of my Chalices and all of my Acans and Scolys a year or so ago, and haven't replaced them yet. I do have a couple of chalice frags in there from my spare colonies in the frag tank, and they are doing fine now.