SPS and T5 lit tanks!

Shawnts106 · #1 09/05/2006, 07:52 PM

hey you guys, Let post some pictures of tanks ran with T5's.

There isnt a whole lot of Pictures showing people how good these bulbs are and how nice you can get colors out of them!

So show them!

msuzuki126 · #2 09/05/2006, 08:45 PM

bump.

reefcrazy93 · #3 09/05/2006, 09:59 PM

bump

bnlimit10 · #4 09/05/2006, 10:03 PM

reefcrazy93 · #5 09/05/2006, 10:17 PM

[IMG]tank photos 001.jpg[/IMG]

reefcrazy93 · #6 09/05/2006, 10:19 PM

[IMG]tank photos 002.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]tank photos 003.jpg[/IMG]

duec22 · #7 09/05/2006, 11:47 PM

Full tank

dvanacker · #8 09/06/2006, 05:51 AM

Bad picture but I havent mastered photography yet.....

and some top downs

kamiru · #9 09/06/2006, 09:44 AM

this is mine.

http://spsmarinetank.blogspot.com/

Ti · #10 09/06/2006, 11:48 AM

great looking pics

Bugger · #11 09/06/2006, 12:11 PM

yeah just wait 4 months when stuff starts dieing from the base up!

duec22 · #12 09/06/2006, 03:08 PM

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Originally posted by Bugger
yeah just wait 4 months when stuff starts dieing from the base up!

Long past 4 months.

oddballs · #13 09/06/2006, 03:53 PM

why would it die from the base up?my sis has a t 5 lit tank thats been up for nearly 2 years and its sps and montys rival 80% of the other sps out there including mine,and the growth is freaking incredible.the bad hype about t 5s is just hype!i doubted them for months until my excuses ran out know our next show tank in the shop is gonna be t 5s if you cant beat em join em!

fish lad · #14 09/06/2006, 04:03 PM

can anyone tell me how many t5's i would need on a 16" deep tank

i would like the higher loving corals down 8" max and all the lesser lighting montis any lower than that

also what bulbs you all using?

Razzagas · #15 09/06/2006, 05:05 PM

this one is pretty amazing..
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2006/2/aquarium

dvanacker · #16 09/06/2006, 06:40 PM

Frank Esser Aquarium is a freaking inspiration for T5 users. And no skimmer to boot. 216 watts over 80g and SPS all over the place.

Bugger....get your facts striaight before you post. The last post I read of yours you were telling some guy to put 6 250watt MH on a 90 gallon.

Shawnts106 · #17 09/06/2006, 07:39 PM

DUEC22: that is a really cool small colony of acro in the third picture down, its blurry, but really cool.

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yeah just wait 4 months when stuff starts dieing from the base up!

Haha, not to be snappy, but Ya' Gots ta' gots ta' gots ta' do your research before you assume things like that.

FISH LAD, for all T5 Query please visit LIGHTING, FILTRATION, and OTHER EQUIPMENT forum for further information

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Bugger....get your facts striaight before you post. The last post I read of yours you were telling some guy to put 6 250watt MH on a 90 gallon.

Oh LORD! where on earth have you been getting your research from bugger! my oh my, thats crazy talk! you have been sipping ONE TOO MANY of those Vodka treatments out of your tank when restarting your oveflow's syphon! haha

Please list your lighting setup and bulb combo's when you post people so we can all see what your running!

Serioussnaps · #18 09/07/2006, 03:59 PM

Lmao DVAN....

can anyone say IVAN/??//////?///

Serioussnaps · #19 09/07/2006, 04:00 PM

dying from the base up sounds like STN and non light related so yeah go do your homework sonny

duec22 · #20 09/07/2006, 07:52 PM

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Originally posted by Shawnts106
DUEC22: that is a really cool small colony of acro in the third picture down, its blurry, but really cool.

Please list your lighting setup and bulb combo's when you post people so we can all see what your running!

That's my bonsi (Don't know if it's a Garf or not I got it at a frag swap a couple months ago) I'm going to be raising my lights a couple of inches to see if I can get some richer colors out of the corals including some darker purple on the base of this one)

Lights are SLS retros from reefgeek.com. I've got 5x24W over the main tank with the six bulb over my HOB fuge. Lights are all Giesemann bulbs and are in the following order:
Front
Actinic Plus : 12am-10pm
11000K Aquablue Plus: 3pm-8pm
Actinic Plus : 1pm-6pm
11000K Aquablue Plus: 3pm-8pm
Actinic Plus : 12am-10pm
Back

CamBarr · #21 09/08/2006, 10:29 AM

duec22 tank looks great, looks white to me though??? is it just the pic???

duec22 · #22 09/08/2006, 12:15 PM

It's is a darker purple in real life, but deffinantly like it sould be. It's way high up in the tank though...wich is one of the reasons I've been thinking of raising the lights up a couple of inches....maybe every make an arch out of the lights.

yetti · #23 09/08/2006, 12:52 PM

duec22 · #24 09/08/2006, 02:31 PM

yetti, what is your light set up...ie what bulbs and how long are they on for. Your superman looks great. Mine seems really faded...BTW very nice pics.

yetti · #25 09/08/2006, 04:43 PM

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Originally posted by duec22
yetti, what is your light set up...ie what bulbs and how long are they on for. Your superman looks great. Mine seems really faded...BTW very nice pics.

Thanks...

It's in a 30g display, standard size. I have a glass top and a 24" Tek T5 with 4 bulbs sitting right on the glass. I have (2) 11K AquaBlue Plus, (1) Actinic Plus and (1) Pure Actinic. Each Giesemann and 24W. The superman sits a little lower than midway down the tank and dead center. I'd give it about 10-11" from the light.

Here is my photo period:

8:30am - Pure Actinic & Actinic Plus come on
9:00am - 11Ks come on
10:00pm - 11Ks go off
10:30pm - Pure Actinic & Actinic Plus go off

I got it about three months ago and it was about the size of a nickel. It's probably tripled in size since then. Grows like a weed.

Scott