Dbo's 65g BIG UPDATE-Upgrading to 125

So apparently my goby decided he's a escape artist last night. I have no idea how he got through the netting. Found him on top of the shadowbox. Rip little buddy.

 

Well today is the last day my tank will be lit by leds, for now. I'm getting a 6 bulb t5 fixture tommorrow. Planning on doing a small rapid kit sometime in the near future mounted in the t5. I'll post some pics after I install the new fixture.

 

Now t5's. I'm actually liking the look.

 

If I missed something, sorry, but any specific reason why you took the T5 route? What kind of fixture did you get?

Looks great tho, nonetheless.

 

I didn't have the just actinic look and no dusk dawn with my par38s. Plus you couldn't tweak the color at all. I have a nova extreme pro 6 bulb now. Now that I have the t5 installed I can say that the lack of shimmer is actually relaxing looking. The leds look liked a disco ball and kinda took away from the tank as a whole. Call me crazy but I might just stick with the t5s.

 

YOU'RE CRAAZY!! Just kidding, no it makes sense. Yeah, Im enjoying the color blend variation with my just-re-built LED, Im sure you're gonna have fun with the numerous choices of T5 options.

Keep us updated!

 

Ya your led build looks sweet! Maybe someday ill jump back into the led game and build a fixture. Not anytime soon though, my kids christmas presents are killing my wallet lol

 

Haha thanks
Since you got the 6 bulbs now, you get to play with the colorz! and the clean look above the tank!

 

The t5s definitely photograph better than those pars you had. What bulbs are you running?

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Yea I can shoot everything wayyyy better. Corals seem to be responding well also. Right now I'm running what came with the fixture which is all coralife bulbs, 3 actinic, 2 10ks and 1 colormax. I will be switching to ati soon. Probably a mix of ati blue+, aquablue special and ill throw in a kz purple.