120W LED

[pgsasi]

I guys
I just got my 120W LED light delivered. For the first time I bought a light online from China. Costed me 140US$ including shipping. Light was 100$ - on sale.

I am currently using 4x24W led lights and will be switching to this new one over the weekend. Last time when I moved from metal halide to LeD one of my corals lost its color and turned white. It's still white even now. This was almost a year back.

So can you advise me on how to switch from my current lights to the new one ? Thanks.

Regards / Sashi

[Reefing Madness]

Did you get a dimmable unit?

[pgsasi]

No. But the blues and whites have separate switches.

Is a dimming switch definitely required ?

[Reefing Madness]

No, not needed but its definately easier to acclimate your corals to, you just turn the lights up a bit at a time, a week at a time. I'm scratching my head because I've never heard of a coral bleach out, and not return its color.
Anyways, you'll have to change your on times for your new lights, start out at like 4 hours a day for a week, then up it to 6, and so on and so forth.

[tinman84]

can you provide a link for where you got it from ?


also when getting led for reef tanks ...is wattage the only thing that matters or is there any wavelength sorta calculation to consider also ?

I guys
I just got my 120W LED light delivered. For the first time I bought a light online from China. Costed me 140US$ including shipping. Light was 100$ - on sale.

I am currently using 4x24W led lights and will be switching to this new one over the weekend. Last time when I moved from metal halide to LeD one of my corals lost its color and turned white. It's still white even now. This was almost a year back.

So can you advise me on how to switch from my current lights to the new one ? Thanks.

Regards / Sashi

[pgsasi]

Got it. Let me post a picture of the coral that turned white in the reef section.

Here is the link from where I bought.

http://www.aliexpress.com/product-gs...olesalers.html

[Reefing Madness]

Very cool. Let us know how well it works for you.

[h2oskibumz]

That's pretty tempting...

[best3175]

Keep us posted. You can't turn down that price.

Damn Chinese!

[reefsurfer1]

What are the dimensions? And how do they look? Can you buy a dimmer separately and plug it into that?

[pgsasi]

The guys in China are enjoying their new year holidays. Will ask them about dinner switch and let you guys know.

The light is functioning well and I h e attached a pic. Cheers.

[pgsasi]

Haha, just realized. It's dimmer switch
I will ask them about. LoL

[Reefing Madness]

Haha, just realized. It's dimmer switch
I will ask them about. LoL