Ryan S

Yes. Same for vortech pumps. Their customer service is fantastic.

I'd call Ecotech and see what they say. If it's not software, they may send you replacement radion units.

Gorgeous! Those won't last!

Ah, good. He'll be much happier there. My wife wanted a coral beauty in our 29g, and I had the hardest time saying no. I love them, but he wouldn't be happy in such a confined space I don't think!

Looking good. Coral Beauty really belongs in a bigger tank though.

looks fantastic!

Awesome!

I am imagining that rock covered in beautiful, colored SPS, ducati-style of course. And I think it's going to look fantastic! Any specific plans regarding fish? Perhaps large groups of colorful schooling fish? (Anthias, Chromis, etc?)

Congratulations!

I have the MP10 in my 29g on Lagoon mode. I only have softies in the tank. If I had SPS in the tank, I'd probably run Reef Crest though.

love all the colors. looks great!

Some of the 72" fixtures look really awesome, but they do get pricey. What size is your tank? Would 150w be enough? 150w is usually for shallow or nano tanks. 250w is generally used on tanks around 18-27" deep I'd say. 28"+ I'd probably go with 400w.

I used to get MH bulbs for $13 each. Even if you replaced them every 6 months, you'd spend less than $150/year. LEDs do eventually lose their strength, but it depends how long you run them. You're most likely looking at many years before you might want to replace them. I think I found a website where the average loss in intensity was something like 1% a year? With that said, WAMAS has LED-fanbois and MH/T5-fanbois. I had Ecotech Radions, and a 400w MH, over SPS. I ran both for 1 year. The MH, hands down, outperformed the LEDs. The colors were much better and the growth rate just exploded. That isn't to say, my SPS weren't ALIVE under the LEDs, or that they didn't grow (albeit slowly), b/c they did. Though some lost colors and browned. Plus the sides/undersides weren't as nice as under the MH. I would consider LEDs for any reef tank except an SPS tank. The very best SPS tanks in the world run T5s or MHs. There are very few SPS tanks under LEDs. Ridetheducati just went from MH to LED back to MH. He has one of my favorite tanks on WAMAS, and it's SPS. From what I've seen on WAMAS, and other reef websites, the majority of the time that someone had an SPS tank under T5 or MH, and tried out LEDs, they went back to T5 or MH within a year. The cheap chinese LED units that are popular here on WAMAS, are just that, cheap. So grab 1 and try it over a section of your tank for 6 months. And buy a $13 MH bulb to go over your tank next to it. And I'll guarantee your MH side rocks the LED side. Vivid Aquariums tried that very experiment and it ended silently... Because the MH's destroyed the LEDs... And Ecotech probably paid them to keep hush about it. (Their 800g tank is under 100% MH today). There are advantages to LEDs though. If you're not just looking at it for a pure SPS coloration/growth perspective. If you don't mind the colors being a little different, the growth being a little slower, etc, then LEDs might be just fine for you. LEDs use less electricity, and don't need replacement bulbs, nor a chiller (if you even need one now w/ your 250w MHs). Hope that helps.

Beautiful tank. Your stand and canopy are just awesome too.

Those are all legitimate factors for sure! You could try 1 250w mh over 2' of tank perhaps? See how tank temp and electric bill change over 6 months or something.

How big is your tank? Three 72" reefbrites would run $1050. You could afford 3 mh fixtures, ballasts, and bulbs for ten years for that price. And have better colors and substantially better growth rates... might be worth trying out...

Fantastic photos. Great sps colors!

I've never seen someone who ran successfully t5 or mh over a sps tank, then leds, who said, the leds > either the t5 or mh. Even the 1200g radion v mh experiment ended (silently) w mh over the whole tank. I think, personally, for sps, the best lighting looks like this: leds<t5<mh.

The best sps tanks don't use leds. Simple as that.

this might help:

Awesome. Wish I had your skills!

Fantastic work. My only complaint would be - how will you work in the sump when it's pulled out? You can't access it from either of the long sides, I would guess you can't put weight on the slide out wood? And from the ends you have a foot to reach over to get into the sump? So it's not ideal. If that room was a little bigger, and you could walk down the side of the sump when it's fully pulled out, that would be ideal?

I know everyone says it's the best stuff since sliced bread, but so far, I'm on the fence. I bought a nano lrs frenzy pack a couple of weeks ago. I am happy with the price (thanks ERC), and the size of the product. I am happy with the listed ingredients. However, in my 29g biocube, I have 3 small fish, and they are really not interested in the reef frenzy. If I put ocean nutrition prime flakes into the tank, they go nuts. If I put reef frenzy in, they don't. They might pick at a piece of two, but that's it. I wonder if my fish are "conditioned" to flake food? Or maybe the three fish I have don't like meaty/seafood products? (clownfish, cardinal, and chromis). The other concern I have is the size of the product pieces once dethawed. When I used Jan's frozen food, when dethawed, there were tons of tiny pieces after you stirred the dethawed food with your finger in a small container. But if you try that with reef frenzy, it doesn't break up into tiny pieces. If you mash on the dethawed piece and really work at it, you can break it up, but the pieces are still chunk-sized. (Larry replied on FB that the size of the pieces is a "personal preference." He thinks it breaks up into pieces that are too small.) So, ultimately, if I used this product in a large tank, with more fish that maybe preferred meaty food, or larger pieces, I don't doubt reef frenzy going over well with the tank. But from a nano-perspective, where tiny pieces are a must, I'm not sold on the product. Do any of you use it on a NANO tank and have your fish go crazy? Or does it turn into tiny pieces for you, and maybe I just got a chunky batch?

Would you add a 72" Actinic Blue to the 300g DD? And put it at the front of the tank?

you should join wamas. we have a WTB/WTS section. the $20 cost would pay for itself in no time.