Bulk Reef Supply thanks for all your hard work and info! It makes reefing a little less scary with all your facts youre researching for us commoners! Could you please do a par test for the illumagic blaze?
Not all of us can afford those fancy lights but also want to start a reef tank. Lets be honest $500 with tax for a small square light with wifi function, come on not everyone has $500 laying around. In a way i feel companies dont even bother to focus on budget friendly reefers who have bills up the arse and assume everyone has the money for some of these half a rent bill single light fixture.
You guys have taught me so much about the hobby. I’m sure many other people can say the same. Keep doing what you guys do and making this hobby better with every video!
Would be interesting to see if angling lights or accent lights such as the reefbrites has a major improvement on shading over mounting lights perfectly horizontally
The kessils are my favorite brand of lighting. Right now I have the hydra 64, but i really want some kessil a360s! I love the shimmer and I really like the plug and play style as well.
@@marcelrodriguez2067 oh I bet. You can't beat the shimmer of the kessil a360x. I have a 92 gallon corner bowfront. Because of the odd shape, i dont know how many to buy??
@@Dank166 depends on what kind of corals you trying to keep, for sps i go with 4 on 4 ft tank 9.6 inches apart from eachother and raise it to 8 inches above the water line for best results.
@@marcelrodriguez2067 at the moment I'm keeping soft corals, mushroom and polyps. I mainly want the kessils for pleasure to the eye and I can advance to more difficult corals in the future with them. I think two will be okay for now. It's such a odd shaped tank that it makes lighting kinda difficult.
I had the exact opposite experience from everything I've been taught with SPS in my frag tank regarding lighting. I had my radions turned way down because my acros were bleaching and dying. I rented a par meter and turns out I was getting less than 100 par at the frag rack. I cranked up the intensity to 250-300 par and my acros are finally starting to re-encrust and color up again.
Gonis looks very cool when they are reaching for light and after watching this I realized why mine dont have that look! I also want to ask if its ok to keep white at 1 both warm and cool white and blues uv at 50? I have a 20 long frag tank and two 95 watt lights so I need to turn way down! Which is the color that gives the most par whites or blues? I also have some 20 watts I could use though and have 3 of them but I have to modify the rim and they are fluval sea nanos but heavy on whites. Which would be better do you think for such a wide and shallow and narrow tank? Lps and softies like zoas and 1/4 is shrooms, plus the rack sits at about 9 inches deep only! so very very shallow!
Can you guys investigate the aquaticlife t5 hybrid setup with different LEDs and their par levels? I have now an aquaticlife t5 hybrid with 2 kessil A360Xs 8"s off the water of a 65 gallon tank. The tank is 3' long.
As usual, super good work done by you guys, favorite channel…, since the first point, what is it with Biocubes,? The lights are fixed on the lid, what can we do??
If you dive, scuba dive that disco ball effect is exactly what you see. With the colors etc. shallow reefs with good wave movement is also exactly what you see at the top. Hardly think that has any negative effects in corals. Might actually be more natural and beneficial.
Scuba diver for 40+ years, hundreds of years, Biology degree and advanced degree professional. So yes, a lot of actual experience with observational skills and science background .
$70 for a 7 day par meter is great, if its logistically available. I live in a northern part of Canada and there is no such thing available anywhere near me.
Either option would work, so there is an element of personal preference here too. I personally like the T5 route as it provides the best coverage, even if the T5 hybrid fixtures don't look as sleek as pendant style LEDs.
I always have a different understand of "divide evenly". I divide the tank space evenly, then put the light on the center of each section. Like 2 light on 4' tank, each section will be 2', the two light would be 1' from each side.
guys please help me i have a mixed reef i have a 300 watt VIPARSPECTRA ''on my 55 gallon tank long my blues 70% AND WHITES ON 3% ,,,, PLEASE LMK WHAT TO SETT IT AT
Hard to give you exact setting recommendations because we haven't used that light over that tank size. That said, this video might help point you in the right direction. Ultimately, you may find it worth while to use a par meter to properly set them up. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UVLNCispGrM.html
Fish stores and reefing clubs would be a good place to check. Otherwise, if you can't find a rental locally, we do rent them as well. www.bulkreefsupply.com/7-day-rental-mq-510-full-spectrum-underwater-led-par-meter-apogee.html
I really wish you guys would put the par meter for rent back on your website, I keep seeing videos about it and I just bought a new light and would really like to make sure the par is correct
I am going to set up a tank. It's a 3 ft tank. I would like to get it to a mixed tank. Starting with softys and moving up. Would you recommend 2 ai 16s or 2 red sea 90s. Looking at the red sea reefer 250 or the waterbox marine 70
Please do Illumagic Blaze X Mini for 24" cube. Mounting height, PAR spreadout, spectrum & intensity setting for coral growth. I'll have one blaze X mini with 4 T5HO tubes for the new nano SPS tank.
Hi i have a question i have recently removed all my rock in my 7 months old reef tank and replaced it with caribsea life rock, i read some horror stories online about cycle starts all over and ammonia spyke etc is this true? And what can i do to prevent this from happening? I really don't want my fish ore corals to die im really worried now
Replacing all rock at once can have negative impacts as most of the good bacteria that processes ammonia lives on the surfaces of rock. Best practice would be to pre-cycle the rock before adding it to the tank if you're replacing it all at once. You'll also want to consider adding a bacterial booster like MicroBacter7 or Dr. Tim's one and only to help ensure that you don't have an ammonia issue.
I am new gay. I buy a nano marine aquarium setup..it's only 4 gallon water tank.. right now I am not going to live coral set-up.can you told me how many marine fish I can put there.
With a small 4 gallon tank, it's best to stay away from fish. You might actually be better off focusing on coral instead as most coral types don't need a whole lot of room and you can frag them when needed.
I bought a Maxspect RSX 200 for a new Reefer 350 build. I'm doubtful that the included legs will serve me well long term so I'd love to set it right the first time. I would love to see your test results on this fixture if you get around to it! :)
Get a par metter but for my old maxspect its was at 17" that i have a good spread this Lightning is lazer in a 6" diameter. Need a PAR metter to set it right.
We're a big fan of the Vortech and Maxspect Gyre pumps. For a soft coral tank, you don't need a ton of flow. Two powerheads in a 75 should be sufficient for most softie setups.
Using a diffuser of some sort is really the only way. Some LED manufacturers have their own ready made diffuser kits, while others may necessitate more of a DIY solution.
EDIT: Saw you are currently testing these, thanks and great video as always! I see you have a Hydra 32 HD on that table ;) will you test that too? I know you did the 64, but I got the 32 and there is like no PAR meter renting service here in Europe (afaik)! TIA :)
Does BRS sterilize the par meter sensors, cords, and wands in between rentals to prevent transferring ich, velvet, bubble algae, aptasia, etc.? Love the BRS videos!
If your gona spend $70 on a rental par meter, would it not make more sense to buy a seneye and have it for life. Are seneys accurat and worth it. U also get ph and temp monitor so seems like a good option.
Definitely an option. Only downside is that you have to have a computer or laptop nearby to get the readings, whereas the Apogee meters have a built-in display.
@@BRStv Oh. So for constant ph monitoring you would need it to be plugged in all the time 🤔. Not good. For future they could make a small controller that store data for a few days or something. Otherwise for most would be too dificult to get a good range of tanks ph over a week period with having to plug it in to a pc.
It's not a light fixture that we currently carry, but if we do, we'll be sure to cover it. With our limited time and resources, our number 1 goal is helping customers be successful with the products we offer.
Thanks for the video and the resource list. Some constructive feedback, may I? If you are going to spend 30 minutes essentially advertising the rental of your PAR meter (fantastic luxury that I'm thankful for, by the way), at least have some in stock to rent out! I bet you have a flurry right now! LOL. 'notify me' when in stock please.🐠
Keeping these in rotation has definitely been a challenge. We just added 20+ more units to the rental program this last week and already they go quick. As of this morning, there are some MQ-510s in stock for rental! :)
@@bryant026 After free shipping both ways, credit card fees, recalibrating and other costs it is close to a break even endeavor. I assure you if this was super profitable everyone would do it :)
We actually found that the par meter feature on the Seneye isn't too far off. Definitely close enough for our purposes in reefing. Check out this investigates video we did a while back where we put the Seneye up against a couple other more popular par meters. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6hUkufXBb3I.html
