thajoeman420
New Member
Hello,
I guess this is my first official grand apearance. Names Joe, im obviously a reefer. I been at it for over 8 years if u count the 5 years I was tankless.
but enought of that. atm I have a 90 gallon aga show tank linked to about 140 more gallons of various items in basement. 40 gallon refugium and 2 50 gallon tuff tubs from lowes. I just have a small assortment of corals and polips. I use mangroves and macro algae in a 8 inch sand bed in my refugium. I am a small wholesaler and tank-refugium builder. I have also done some custom hoods and lighting fixtures. I am onto something BIG tho!!!! I am working with several LED lighting companys that build arrays for growing plants. Let me remind you, LED= zero heat!!! perfect calabrated spectrums even down to an exact nanometer!! bulbs last ONEHUNDREDTHOUSAND hours!!!!!less that one TENTH of the power consumption HQ and PC bulbs use, and the thing that really got me hyped about this instead of using metal halides which are EXTREME area lights in which you need to use a superhighly polished reflector to hopefully cast the stray rays of light back down to your corals. Instead of losing 80% of the needed light from rays that never even get close to touching your corals. These LED arrays target specific areas in your tank, floodlight specific corals. I mean in my show tank I have half the tank is rock and half the tank is sand. I am currently using 2 110 watt VHO and 4 55 watt PC in my show tank. So all and all almost half the light that is touching the bottom of my tank is growing dead sand in my tank.... truly.. Well I am currently testing an array I have 1 medium colt coral and 1 large pinkbirdsnest on the LED array and I have 1 medium colt and 1 large pink birdsnest in my show tank with vho and pc. I will soon have some pics up for all to see. If this really interests anyone please email me at thejoeman42@yahoo.com Thanks alot for reading my long post and keep up the GOOD work, your tanks look GREAT!!
Joe.
I guess this is my first official grand apearance. Names Joe, im obviously a reefer. I been at it for over 8 years if u count the 5 years I was tankless.
but enought of that. atm I have a 90 gallon aga show tank linked to about 140 more gallons of various items in basement. 40 gallon refugium and 2 50 gallon tuff tubs from lowes. I just have a small assortment of corals and polips. I use mangroves and macro algae in a 8 inch sand bed in my refugium. I am a small wholesaler and tank-refugium builder. I have also done some custom hoods and lighting fixtures. I am onto something BIG tho!!!! I am working with several LED lighting companys that build arrays for growing plants. Let me remind you, LED= zero heat!!! perfect calabrated spectrums even down to an exact nanometer!! bulbs last ONEHUNDREDTHOUSAND hours!!!!!less that one TENTH of the power consumption HQ and PC bulbs use, and the thing that really got me hyped about this instead of using metal halides which are EXTREME area lights in which you need to use a superhighly polished reflector to hopefully cast the stray rays of light back down to your corals. Instead of losing 80% of the needed light from rays that never even get close to touching your corals. These LED arrays target specific areas in your tank, floodlight specific corals. I mean in my show tank I have half the tank is rock and half the tank is sand. I am currently using 2 110 watt VHO and 4 55 watt PC in my show tank. So all and all almost half the light that is touching the bottom of my tank is growing dead sand in my tank.... truly.. Well I am currently testing an array I have 1 medium colt coral and 1 large pinkbirdsnest on the LED array and I have 1 medium colt and 1 large pink birdsnest in my show tank with vho and pc. I will soon have some pics up for all to see. If this really interests anyone please email me at thejoeman42@yahoo.com Thanks alot for reading my long post and keep up the GOOD work, your tanks look GREAT!!Joe.
