Tank pics with T5 lighting (graphics intense)

[Sahin]

Here is the updated pics of my tank running with the T5 lights.

First up is the whole tank pic. Apologies for the crappy quality. The camera doesnt take good pics far away from the tank, but takes good closeups.


Next is the left side:


Middle:


Right:


Now for some corals: First up is the Hydnophora. This SPS has an awesome green colour, the pic does not to it justice, honestly.


Here is the Maxima Clam:


And finaly, one coral I always seem to take excellent pics with, my PipeOrgan coral. Growing nicely too. And bought for only £1 as a tiny frag.


The Hydophora, the other SPS and clam I bought just a few days ago from STM. All other corals were present in my tank either since setup or a while later. I got rid of a frogspawn that grew too large, as well as a leather coral which just grew so big it shadowed a large part of the right side of tank. I will be possibly buying a few more clams and maybe one or two SPS frags if space allows and as well as the colours must be different from anything I already have.

Well, hope you like it. Put a lot of work into this tank. The tank is 3 months old in 2 days time.

[Minnreefer]

Looks very good. I am not familiar with T5 lights, is that a Metal halide?

[Sahin]

Thanks. T5's are a new type of high output tube lights just recently out on the market for aquarium use. They use the same tube diameter as PC's (hence T5).

[Rick O]

Nice pics. Good color.

[hooked]

Very nice looking tank, keep up the good work. The pictures came out great.

[Stang69]

Do you have a link for more info on them?

Jeff

[MontanaRocknReefer]

Jeff here is a link:
http://www.reefkeeper.co.uk/acatalog/T5_Lighting.html Johnny

[bill-e]

What are the lumens on these bulbs? The link appears to be broken for the tech data sheet.

[reefcam]

bill-e,

remove the %20 at the end of the string and end it with the pdf.

This will fix the problem.

Jim

[Stang69]

Thank you. I noticed on one of the cxharts it was high in the red spectrum ummmmm this aint good. Or maybe I was looking at the wrong bulb but I will stand back and see how things go in the future. Good cheap lighting hmmmmm someting wrong here or did we get a break?



Jeff

[MontanaRocknReefer]

bill-e here is another link:
http://fins.actwin.com/aquatic-plant.../msg00306.html Johnny

[bill-e]

Jim,

Thanks.

Having nothing but Lumens to go by, the 6500k 80w T5 is around 7000 lumens while the 96w PC is 8800. So until someone does a study on spectrum and PAR, they appear to be a little under the intensity of a PC.

They do look great as do PC's IMO, both of which I like the asthetics of better than my HQI.

[billc]

What are specs on your lights??? How many bulbs, what spectrum, what ballasts. Just courious...

[skilter]

all i can say is, wow....

i dont care the price i gotta get me some of those lights!