LED Lighting for a frag tank.

I'm in the process of setting up a little frag tank. I have everything crossed of on my checklist except lighting. I don’t know what I want. I was going to go with my usual T5 setup that has work on my 2 DT. I have recently have done some reading about LED lighting systems. LED setups seem to have enough output for all types of coral from what I have read in different reviews. Is this true?

Has anyone had experience with LED's? This is what I was looking into.

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Thanks for your input!

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To my knowledge that is more for adding shimmer than running a tank with... Most LED fixtures for stand alone lighting have FAR more LEDs on them.

 

Yep. That is, in all honesty, a very quick, cheap way to try and have LED lights. Four, one watt LED's are not going to grow corals.
They are more meant to replace the standard flourescents on fish only or freshwater systems, or to add moonlights to larger tanks.

 

i have read about this topic and i am looking into this to DYI led lamp for my reef tank and i have found that led's can in fact grow coralsit all depents on part lumens per watts you can run a berry nice reef by just using leds... for a fraction of that cost you dont have to replace leds for it for 6-10 years the sistem those cost alot of money they have many prices go to this link and check this out Aquawave Brilliance / Brilliance K2 Aquarium Replacement LED Lighting this are graet for reed aplication day come from uk i have hord from people who are using them verry good things about them if you want more lumens per watts try brilliance K2 10,000 and they have blue to ...

 

Thats the question the LED fixture companys need to see and answer to us with a direct comparison.

 

I know at a lfs here in vegas they have a pico tank 3 gal with 8 leds on it 4 white and 4 blues it has lps sps and softies and they are all growing like weeds. this is a diy set up. the good thing about them is the avail. to change from 6500k one day to 22k the next. it is a good theory now but the cost and testing still needs to be done. as for a large system it will need alot of Leds to copare to t5s and or m/h. it is still like the t5s still work in progress. for right bulb configeration's for the best growth and coral

 

Here is some more intresting information about the comparison of LED with MH and T5. the way they make them sound it looks like they are the futer of lighting.

Aquarium Lighting; Kelvin, Nanometers, PAR, Bulb, Watt, MH, LED, light basics.

 

I have been running my led lighting system for around 9 months now and love them. I am able to keep any type of corals in my tank with good results.

 

Eco-tech Marine Radion G2 i can literally guarantee the best growth, my lfs had the best results.

Or Rapid LED and try Boost LED.

 

whoa you are about 4 years or so too late on that one.