What lighting are you using to light your SPS tanks?

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I am about to switch lights soon. Curious to see what everyone is running over their tanks.
I run an ATI T5 fixture over my tank.
Pics are greatly appreciated!
 
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I run (7) 400 watt metal halides. Two only run for a 3 hour window.
 
I also run an ATI T5 fixture in my almost all sps tank. loving the colors and it's definitely growing my frags as well. Some pics are in my build thread but they're taken with a iphone so not so great. Why do you want to change lights?
 
The fans on my fixture all died and I cant find a replacement so yeah i guess its time to replace.
 
The ATI fans are just little computer fans. I retrofitted thicker fans to push more air. I think these are the ones I used:

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I run them at 9v to keep noise down. Still pushes more air than the stock ones. You do have to raise the fans up though, with a little double sided tape or something else, so that it has room underneath to push air.

I'm extremely happy with my ATI 6 bulb over my 90 gallon SPS heavy tank. I'm having a ton more success and growth than when I had a 48" Reef Breeder unit.
 
Im running 3 250w with radium and 4 t5 (ati 2 actinic & 2 blue +)...
 
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2 250 watt radium 2 blue+ I ran 6 T/5 on a previous system and growth with the MH/T5 is far better and I like the shimmer. Both types of lighting are proven I would hang on to your T5 they have better even coverage. I see reefers switch back to T5 when sps colonies get dense most of your European reefers run T5 and add led for supplemental and shimmering.
 
I have LED, but you should do MH or T5, lol. Corals look great under my Radions, but if I had to do it again is would be a Giesemann Spectra FTW! ATI Sunpower a close second.....
 
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MH/T5 on an sps heavy mixed reef.
Same with the frag tank.

Tried high end led fixtures for nearly two years but wasn't happy so switched back.
 
I have always had great success using a MH/T5 combo and I am going to use that setup again with my new tank. The ATI Hybrid does seem like a nice option but I am sticking with what has worked for me in the past.
 

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What lighting are you using to light your SSP tanks?

I've run
Halides
Halides t5
T6
Ai sol led
Currently running ai sol + t5. Been on this combo for 2 years or more

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ReefBum said:
I have always had great success using a MH/T5 combo and I am going to use that setup again with my new tank. The ATI Hybrid does seem like a nice option but I am sticking with what has worked for me in the past.
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Good to see u in the planning stages again . U may not be wet but u are not forgotten .
 
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