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About 8 months ago I purchased Acan brand led light fixtures (I think model 104ac), and I have HATED them ever since. I hear everyone rave about LED's and want to know if it was just the brand I bought, or what? I really wanted aqua illumination brand fixtures, but at the time, they were on backorder indefinitely. So I researched the Acan brand lights, and found the par ratings (according to the manufacturers website) to be more than enough for my lps and softie dominated tank. I started the lights at about 60% power and each week moved them up about 5% each week (thinking I would need to adjust my corals to the higher light), anyways, eventually I got to 100% and NOTHING was surviving at the bottom of my tank (22 inches deep), so I moved everything up, an up, and up, until literally everything was placed extremely high in my tank, and even my zoas had to be placed 5-6 inches from the top to even open up. Needless to say, after spending $1,400 on the light fixtures, it was more than a disappointment. So i went back to all t-5's and now have my $1,400 leds on a seahorse tank with no corals... ugh!
The only positive think I can say about them, was they did make the colors on the corals pop.... other than that.... pure crap!
SOOO im wondering, did I just get a horrible brand? Or has anyone else tried LED's and not liked them? I know people who seem to rave about them, and I HATED mine with a passion (very close to pulling an Office Space move, and taking a baseball bat to them..... if you haven't seen that movie, you should lol) so I'm wondering if anyone else out there has some input?
Anyone have a fixture that they love? I know people make their own led systems, but I am DEFINITELY not a do-it-yourselfer , so unless I could pay someone to make me a LED system, that is not an option.
The only positive think I can say about them, was they did make the colors on the corals pop.... other than that.... pure crap!
SOOO im wondering, did I just get a horrible brand? Or has anyone else tried LED's and not liked them? I know people who seem to rave about them, and I HATED mine with a passion (very close to pulling an Office Space move, and taking a baseball bat to them..... if you haven't seen that movie, you should lol) so I'm wondering if anyone else out there has some input?
Anyone have a fixture that they love? I know people make their own led systems, but I am DEFINITELY not a do-it-yourselfer , so unless I could pay someone to make me a LED system, that is not an option.