i'm going to bild a LED reef lights i need to know what spetram i need

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  1. freyre

    freyre Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Hi as you all know i love DIY i fill more in tune with my aquerium when i do and i need to change the lights because i am going to strar my reef and looking on the web i came across LED's i love them the intensety of MH, but with out the bill!!!!>>> but the LED star at $1500.00 and for my tank is in the $2000.00. p.s. i dont think so... so i have the suplyers and aberything but i need to know the difrens 10,000k
    15,000k
    20,000k
    how many lumis thos a reef tank needs
    what color wave levels
    for blue,white,amber,ultra vilet,
    or thos it do better in full spectrom light
    or ... what is recomended
    let me know guys
     
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  2. iLLwiLL

    iLLwiLL Sailfin Tang

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  3. Biggs2003

    Biggs2003 Flamingo Tongue

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    Here's a starting point. Photosynthetically active radiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Design with PAR in mind. That will tell you how many of what wavelength LED's you will need. I looked into this and decided it wasn't cost effective yet. Some of the LED's were quite expensive when you start getting into narrow spectrum LED's. Then there's LUX measurements and what not. Lots of science involved with this type of project.
     
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  4. freyre

    freyre Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    yes i know but i will try it i am berry good with this tipe of stuff .... thanks for the link i will look into it
     
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  5. reef_guru

    reef_guru Humpback Whale

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    give freyre a break, knowing multiple languages is superb. hats off to you for trying to learn the english language fryre.
     
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  6. jhawkor

    jhawkor Millepora

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    English Isn't his first language dude......
     
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  7. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    really dude???
     
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  8. freyre

    freyre Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    thanks guys for defending me but it dosent bother me at all hes the (stupid !!!!!)one,i think i spell that one corectly...
     
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  9. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    yep you hit that one out of the park. Really I'm not good at diy stuff though so you will need to look elsewhere other than me. Kudos on multiple languages. What is your first language??
     
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  10. freyre

    freyre Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    tha three language's the i know.... 1-read and write spanish, my secound is inglish i read and i write it with dificulty but is there, and language number 3 is portuges from brasiel i readed and i can write it a litle, i
     
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