GHL Mitras Club

[BigAl2007]

4 should give you AMAZING coverage. We're going to require LOTS of pictures of your build

[M007]

Originally Posted by ch23

Hi all,new around here so bare with me while i find my way. Looking at starting up a new tank,( old one 5x2x2 shut down due to a moving), new tank 8x3x2. Question: looking at 5 mitras over this tank, ( already have 2 from previous set up) who thinks this is overkill?. I'm thinking this will give me great coverage to put my SPS anywhere in the tank.

Not so fast guys, the answer depends on how high you are going to hang them. My dims are 84 x 28 x 24 @ 20cm. 3 were okay but now with 4 it's awesome. I found with 3 6100's I had to crank up the intensity to cover the tank which fried most things directly under the lamps. With 4 units I can back off the output without sacrificing coverage and I can sit on the couch without retina damage watching the tank these fixtures will not give you the spread a 8 or 10 tube T5 or MH with proper reflectors will. No bulb changes and less power consumption yes but same spread no. With a 36" depth I would mount 5 in a ||||| configuration. HTH

[M007]

While I'm here, please provide link for ordering 6200 retrofit kits, thanks

[trueblackpercula]

Originally Posted by M007

While I'm here, please provide link for ordering 6200 retrofit kits, thanks

Sounds good to me but I am loving the 6100hv right now. Maybe when things start looking really good I will upgrade just to find something else to break. Lol I did see the 6200hv In pics and it's almost identical, but they are more blue and that's just the way I like my project. I have adjusted my project I little more and will post it soon.
Michael

[M007]

Very difficult to run a full 20k program with 6100's

[AQD_ottawa]

Originally Posted by M007

While I'm here, please provide link for ordering 6200 retrofit kits, thanks

contact us directly at info@ghlna.com

they are $300 pet lamp..special order only. Please note the kits are sold at our landed cost price as we are not looking to profit from these upgrades only cover our costs.

[M007]

Originally Posted by AQD_ottawa

contact us directly at info@ghlna.com they are $300 pet lamp..special order only. Please note the kits are sold at our landed cost price as we are not looking to profit from these upgrades only cover our costs.

I'll be in touch shortly, thanks

[reefmutt]

Originally Posted by M007

Not so fast guys, the answer depends on how high you are going to hang them. My dims are 84 x 28 x 24 @ 20cm. 3 were okay but now with 4 it's awesome. I found with 3 6100's I had to crank up the intensity to cover the tank which fried most things directly under the lamps. With 4 units I can back off the output without sacrificing coverage and I can sit on the couch without retina damage watching the tank these fixtures will not give you the spread a 8 or 10 tube T5 or MH with proper reflectors will. No bulb changes and less power consumption yes but same spread no. With a 36" depth I would mount 5 in a ||||| configuration. HTH

I would tend to agree with this.. Especially if sps is your thing.. Better overall coverage and you can run them at a lower intensity..

[ch23]

Thank's for the replies everyone.... I will be buying 3, 6200's and 2 upgrade's for my 6100's. Lights will be hung 20cm above water level.

[M007]

Originally Posted by ch23

Thank's for the replies everyone.... I will be buying 3, 6200's and 2 upgrade's for my 6100's. Lights will be hung 20cm above water level.

I think you will be pleased with the extra lamp

[mtraylor]

I have had the mitras 6100's for several years now over my mixed reef, and I have had no issues with them. All my corals grow well and have great color. No issues with my bubble tip anemone or clam in the sand. That being said, I recently bought a ritteri anemone. When I first bought it I thought it was basically brownish with white tentacles in my display. Well it started to deflate a bit, so I treated the anemone in my sick tank with cipro. The interesting thing is as soon as I placed the ritteri anemone in the sick tank under my aquatic life marine t5 fixture, the tentacles looked neon yellow. Very beautiful!

After I treated the anemone I placed it back in my display, and of course it doesn't look neon anymore and doesn't pop. I have played with my light settings and nothing gives it the pop I seen under the t5. This is weird because my other anemone looks awesome as well as everything else in the aquarium.

So what it looks like is the 6100 actinics do not produce that pop you get from t5s or VHO actinic. I would have never noticed to this degree if I hadn't bought the ritteri. My question is, if I change to 6200's, will I get the pop the t5 actinics is giving off?

[mtraylor]

Ok, so I added some pictures here so you can see what I'm talking about. The first pic here is the picture of the anemone when I first added to my aquarium. As you can see the tentacles look basically white with a little pinkish hue. Of course I can see that the anemone has lost some zoo anthology when I got him. He needs to be colored up.

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When I noticed that the anemone was deflating, I took him out of the display and put him in my sick tank under a standard marine aquatic t5 fixture. This is where I noticed immediately the fluorescent yellow/green in the tentacles that I have always seen in ritteri's. This is him in the sick tank getting treated.

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Once I got him cured of deflating, I placed him back in the tank on the edge rock I made for him. As you can see you don't see that magical color anymore. This fluorescent look is what I would like to get for this anemone. Does the mitras 6200 provide this look with actinics? or do I need another program K level that I have not tried yet on the 6100's? I have tried allot of variances and nothing is working. This is him back in the display.

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[trueblackpercula]

Originally Posted by mtraylor

I have had the mitras 6100's for several years now over my mixed reef, and I have had no issues with them. All my corals grow well and have great color. No issues with my bubble tip anemone or clam in the sand. That being said, I recently bought a ritteri anemone. When I first bought it I thought it was basically brownish with white tentacles in my display. Well it started to deflate a bit, so I treated the anemone in my sick tank with cipro. The interesting thing is as soon as I placed the ritteri anemone in the sick tank under my aquatic life marine t5 fixture, the tentacles looked neon yellow. Very beautiful!

After I treated the anemone I placed it back in my display, and of course it doesn't look neon anymore and doesn't pop. I have played with my light settings and nothing gives it the pop I seen under the t5. This is weird because my other anemone looks awesome as well as everything else in the aquarium.

So what it looks like is the 6100 actinics do not produce that pop you get from t5s or VHO actinic. I would have never noticed to this degree if I hadn't bought the ritteri. My question is, if I change to 6200's, will I get the pop the t5 actinics is giving off?

Do me a favor and upload my project and let me know how it looks from 900am to 1200pm under that setting. Post 1635

[mtraylor]

This is my bubble tip in the same aquarium that I have had over 10 years. The color is very vibrant.

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[reefmutt]

Personally, I think every light source brings out different pigments in each animal..
Depending on the type or types of zooxanthellea living in the tissue of the animal, different light sources are going to reflect differently and show you slightly different colors..
Maybe your very nice bta would look less vibrant under the t5s.. Who knows..
Maybe your new anemone is still going to develop more coloration and in the future it will show that color even under the LEDs.. Hard to say..
I think coral coloration is quite variable and depends a lot on what parts of the light spectrum are shining on them..

[mtraylor]

Originally Posted by trueblackpercula

Do me a favor and upload my project and let me know how it looks from 900am to 1200pm under that setting. Post 1635

Ok. I will give it a try over the weekend.

[mtraylor]

Originally Posted by reefmutt

Personally, I think every light source brings out different pigments in each animal..
Depending on the type or types of zooxanthellea living in the tissue of the animal, different light sources are going to reflect differently and show you slightly different colors..
Maybe your very nice bta would look less vibrant under the t5s.. Who knows..
Maybe your new anemone is still going to develop more coloration and in the future it will show that color even under the LEDs.. Hard to say..
I think coral coloration is quite variable and depends a lot on what parts of the light spectrum are shining on them..

Oh that is a fact. I have tried allot of different lights and different spectrums over the years and the corals do look different under each one of them. My favorite was 20K radium MH's with actinics. Super color! I colored up allot of corals for people. I"m just trying to get that extra glow on a ritteri that I have wanted for ever.

Well the BTA looks good under all lighting, I have had it for years under different types of lights. Its always beautiful. The new anemone as I stated and you noted has a ways to go to get its color back. I can tell you from experience, I have colored up allot corals with the mitras so there is no doubt it will color up. Not sure what it will look like, but I will post some pics. It will take some time though. Just want to make sure I get all the great color I can get out of it. This will be my next show piece in the tank.

[muz_z]

Looking for some help guys my mitras lcd panels have gone very dim
I have checked and double checked the setting like 5 times with no luck and changed them of coarse and saved and updated view every time

Now the funny thing is the buttons brighten and dim as per the settings just the lcd stays very dim?

Now to be honest i dont know if this is the issue or not but i updated the firmware from v1.14 to 1.17 and from there they went dim but i cant say i noticed the lcd before the update or not so may of been like that already?

So what i have done
Changed the firmware back to v1.14 no good
Reset the factory settings in v1.14 no good
Changed the firware back to v1.17 no good
Restet factory settings in v1.17 no good

Buttons on the unit still dim and brighten in every step just not lcd

Every time i done one of the steps i changed the settings for the brightness and saved changes and updated view still no good

Has this happened to anyone else?
If so is there a cure? Or if not can the lcd panels be changed for new ones?

[trueblackpercula]

Originally Posted by muz_z

Looking for some help guys my mitras lcd panels have gone very dim
I have checked and double checked the setting like 5 times with no luck and changed them of coarse and saved and updated view every time

Now the funny thing is the buttons brighten and dim as per the settings just the lcd stays very dim?

Now to be honest i dont know if this is the issue or not but i updated the firmware from v1.14 to 1.17 and from there they went dim but i cant say i noticed the lcd before the update or not so may of been like that already?

So what i have done
Changed the firmware back to v1.14 no good
Reset the factory settings in v1.14 no good
Changed the firware back to v1.17 no good
Restet factory settings in v1.17 no good

Every time i done one of the steps i changed the settings for the brightness and saved changes and updated view still no good

Has this happened to anyone else?
If so is there a cure? Or if not can the lcd panels be changed for new ones?

Just a chance here bu have you tried to factory reset the fixture?

[muz_z]

Hhmmm you obliviously didnt read my post it says i did it twice!

[trueblackpercula]

Wow that was nasty of you. Just trying to help good luck

[M007]

Did you try unplugging the ballasts from the wall outlet? Worked for me a few months back.

[muz_z]

Originally Posted by trueblackpercula

Wow that was nasty of you. Just trying to help good luck

Nothing nasty about it at all

You used the quote in your reply where it says it quite clearly then you reply with what you did?

Thanks M007 i will try that tonight and see how it goes

Did yours go dark also?

[muz_z]

Well tried unplugged from power socket for 30 seconds still no good

[GazzMan]

Have you set the brightness level in the CC, not for the lamp but for the display panel on the lamp