led vs t5 for soft coral

[DrBlueThumb]

With me I am trying to grow lower light corals such as paly's, aussi/florida rics, shrooms and zoas only. I realized through playing around over the last 12 years that 4 x 24" t5 h.o at 14,000k-20,000k on a 18" deep tank or less gave me best results. I'm going with this on a 35G rectangle aquarium: 2 x attinic plus and 2 x aquablue plus geisemen power chrome.



I am thinking of going led on my 55G, 4 foot rectangle tank. Or should I just stick with what works, and has proven to work? since I am going all soft corals and that leds may be too powerful?

[seggsy]

Just switched to LEDs on my 75g display - 2 chinese black box full spectrum. When I was running T5 on my display and LED on my frag tanks, I found that I got much better growth on the T5s.....but maybe I just maintained that tank better.

[DrBlueThumb]

Yeah true, your 75 is your baby, it's more established. Frag tanks are are a little rough looking usually, and most people tend to use less husbandry and put in less money on equipment.