EcoXotic stunner strips?

Mandarinman13 · 12/04/2009, 09:39 PM

I'm looking at doing a supplementing LED setup, and was planning on current powerbrites for the length of my tank. But then just recently ecoXotic came out with a new line of LED's, and their stunner strips look like exactly what I need. Has anyone heard anything as to how well these work? I see they have both an actinic and a UV model. I wonder how the UV would look. Input and knowledge are appreciated!

Link... http://www.ecoxotic.com/stunner-led-...am5u0d93e810a6

Stanley-Reefer · 12/04/2009, 10:31 PM

LFS has a nano set up with their lights with sps, clams, softies, polyps in the zones as they recommend. The color and shimmer and ABSENCE of heat made for an attractive tank.

Dr F/S is backordered on them.

DeepReefExotics · 12/05/2009, 08:13 AM

I am intrested in some LED supplemental lighting and these look like a nice alternative to the powerbrites. Anyone else have any experience with these and how powerful / how they look?

I either wanted to try this or a diy high powered set up but im not the best diy guy round here

.

Mandarinman13 · 12/07/2009, 04:34 PM

Bump, anybody else have any input??

dg3147 · 12/18/2009, 03:03 PM

seiously considering it. I think i may place an order. Now I just need to decided which one to get. I want my clam and Torch in the front of the tank to really jump out. Ideas?

tplummer · 12/18/2009, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dg3147

seiously considering it. I think i may place an order. Now I just need to decided which one to get. I want my clam and Torch in the front of the tank to really jump out. Ideas?

When you get this setup could you post pics? I have a tek 8 bulb. Would like to do something like this if I could get a shimmer effect but I'm not sure if it works and how I could mount it..

Thanks

tbundy · 01/31/2010, 07:48 AM

i was at a local frag swap yesterday and they had the blue panorama strip as a raffle prize that I won. ecoxotic had a rep there with some of the products for demo. Some were on a table and some were over a reef. I was very impressed with the brightness, penetration and lack of heat. according to the rep if you have the right setup you can replicate the par and lux values of a 400watt MH. I was so impressed that i used my last $100 to pick up a 8000k white panorama to go with the blue that i won to give it a try. After the 2.5 hour drive home i couldnt wait to see how they looked over my solana 34g. I turned off the 150 MH with a 14k phoenix bulb and help the 8000k strip over and i couldnt believe how close the brightness was. It was a little on the white side compared to the phoenix but i didnt set up the blue strip side by side with the white. I then tried just the blue one. Once again amazed with the brightness along with the glowing of all the zoas and polyps on my sps. Today im going to rig up a quick PVC rack and place both over the tank. Ill take pics and post them later today or tomorrow

reggiepe · 01/31/2010, 10:11 AM

I just purchased a couple of Stunner strips for my 75. I am looking for something to make some colors really pop. Should be here tomorrow or Tuesday. I will share my thoughts once they arrive.

tbundy: I am assuming that was the fragswap at TPP? I wanted to go but had prior commitments. Was there a huge turnout?

maddog2002 · 01/31/2010, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tbundy

i was at a local frag swap yesterday and they had the blue panorama strip as a raffle prize that I won. ecoxotic had a rep there with some of the products for demo. Some were on a table and some were over a reef. I was very impressed with the brightness, penetration and lack of heat. according to the rep if you have the right setup you can replicate the par and lux values of a 400watt MH. I was so impressed that i used my last $100 to pick up a 8000k white panorama to go with the blue that i won to give it a try. After the 2.5 hour drive home i couldnt wait to see how they looked over my solana 34g. I turned off the 150 MH with a 14k phoenix bulb and help the 8000k strip over and i couldnt believe how close the brightness was. It was a little on the white side compared to the phoenix but i didnt set up the blue strip side by side with the white. I then tried just the blue one. Once again amazed with the brightness along with the glowing of all the zoas and polyps on my sps. Today im going to rig up a quick PVC rack and place both over the tank. Ill take pics and post them later today or tomorrow

Only Two panorama strips will be as good as 150MH? How is coral react under those trips?

prNonVTEC4u · 02/04/2010, 10:19 PM

any updates on this? really considering a few stunner strips for my 75g reef also

DeepReefExotics · 02/13/2010, 02:52 PM

Same here, looking for updates.

bguile · 02/13/2010, 03:34 PM

I purchased a set of these from the frag swap mentioned above. I was so impressed with them for their brightness (direct light) I made an impulse decision and bought them. I have to say that I was a little underwhelmed by it's actual in use performance. Let me qualify my opinion.

There was an offer that if you made a purchase of any ecoxotic item, you'd get an additional stunner strip of your choice free. So I bought 2 of the 8K stunner strips (6W) for the purpose of trying to maintain coral in an invert only QT which is a 20L. The free two would be mailed later. When I got home I immediately connected and placed the two strips over one section of the QT. The light was so dim over this one section, I felt that even with 4 of the 8K's there was no way anything but low/no light corals could survive. I may have to re-evaluate that last statement though b/c I then placed them in a 12g JBJ nanocube that I've been running for months with no lights and it seemed to a fitting replacement the stock lighting quite nicely. It even fit in the canopy nicely with the included clips. The two free strips (Actinics) came later in the week and I temporarily installed them over my 210 which they were originally purchased for. The 2 actinics alone did give an impressive deepwater blue glow to the tank, but once I turned on one 250W MH, I couldn't see any blue enhancement. So it wouldn't do me any good in that capacity which was the original reason I bought them. I also connected the two 8K's (they connect in series) just to see what it looked like on the 210 and it barely lit it. Just not enough light penetration. So disappointingly, I packaged them all back up to prepare to return them.

I didn't try all 4 of them on the smaller tanks but would be willing to and post some picks after this weekend before I return them if someone else doesn't first.

Overall, I think they are good lights for small tanks. But if you really want to light a tank you have to go for a few of the 12W strips on a shallow tank or the retro setup that allows you to install the strips.

kayaking2 · 08/08/2010, 02:29 PM

I have a 90g tall tank and the Ecoxotic do an excellent job lighting everything. The only dark areas I have are the caves in my rocks

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1888575

I have a litttle bit of eveything in my tank...SPS, LPS, softies, zoas etc.....

All doing fine.

moondoggy4 · 08/08/2010, 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tplummer

When you get this setup could you post pics? I have a tek 8 bulb. Would like to do something like this if I could get a shimmer effect but I'm not sure if it works and how I could mount it..

Thanks

When I bought my Tek Elite Light from Todd at Cherry Coral at the MAX show in the OC last April it had a 4 foot long led light already on it but at the time I did not have enough money to buy that also. The light just bolted on it, it fit perfectly. No modifications just two screws. Sorry I cannot remember who made it, but maybe you can e-mail Tod at Cherry Corals he may remember.

moondoggy4 · 08/08/2010, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tplummer

When you get this setup could you post pics? I have a tek 8 bulb. Would like to do something like this if I could get a shimmer effect but I'm not sure if it works and how I could mount it..

Thanks

http://www.aquariumspecialty.com/cat...87_691&product

moondoggy4 · 08/08/2010, 10:12 PM

Sorry link did not work The led is 48'' long and it is made by Reef Brite Led

wickedfish · 08/08/2010, 11:27 PM

I had stunners since March on a 90 g mixed reef turned all fish they do shine up but do not provide any valué to photsynthetic corals it mánaged to strangle all the corals in the tank until i added 2 vho's. If u want 6 pm me they aré for sale

12/04/2009, 09:39 PM	#1
Mandarinman13 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 23	EcoXotic stunner strips? I'm looking at doing a supplementing LED setup, and was planning on current powerbrites for the length of my tank. But then just recently ecoXotic came out with a new line of LED's, and their stunner strips look like exactly what I need. Has anyone heard anything as to how well these work? I see they have both an actinic and a UV model. I wonder how the UV would look. Input and knowledge are appreciated! Link... http://www.ecoxotic.com/stunner-led-...am5u0d93e810a6

12/18/2009, 03:03 PM	#5
dg3147 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Pasadena, CA Posts: 1,178	seiously considering it. I think i may place an order. Now I just need to decided which one to get. I want my clam and Torch in the front of the tank to really jump out. Ideas? __________________ Elos 160XL \| Powermodule LED/T5 \| BK Double cone 200 \| Pasadena, CA Home page: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=23482778#post23482778

02/13/2010, 03:34 PM	#12
bguile Premium Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: York PA Posts: 308	I purchased a set of these from the frag swap mentioned above. I was so impressed with them for their brightness (direct light) I made an impulse decision and bought them. I have to say that I was a little underwhelmed by it's actual in use performance. Let me qualify my opinion. There was an offer that if you made a purchase of any ecoxotic item, you'd get an additional stunner strip of your choice free. So I bought 2 of the 8K stunner strips (6W) for the purpose of trying to maintain coral in an invert only QT which is a 20L. The free two would be mailed later. When I got home I immediately connected and placed the two strips over one section of the QT. The light was so dim over this one section, I felt that even with 4 of the 8K's there was no way anything but low/no light corals could survive. I may have to re-evaluate that last statement though b/c I then placed them in a 12g JBJ nanocube that I've been running for months with no lights and it seemed to a fitting replacement the stock lighting quite nicely. It even fit in the canopy nicely with the included clips. The two free strips (Actinics) came later in the week and I temporarily installed them over my 210 which they were originally purchased for. The 2 actinics alone did give an impressive deepwater blue glow to the tank, but once I turned on one 250W MH, I couldn't see any blue enhancement. So it wouldn't do me any good in that capacity which was the original reason I bought them. I also connected the two 8K's (they connect in series) just to see what it looked like on the 210 and it barely lit it. Just not enough light penetration. So disappointingly, I packaged them all back up to prepare to return them. I didn't try all 4 of them on the smaller tanks but would be willing to and post some picks after this weekend before I return them if someone else doesn't first. Overall, I think they are good lights for small tanks. But if you really want to light a tank you have to go for a few of the 12W strips on a shallow tank or the retro setup that allows you to install the strips. __________________ -Bguile Current Tank Info: 210G FOWLR, 40G Reef

08/08/2010, 02:29 PM	#13
kayaking2 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 174	I replaced my MH with Ecoxotic and love them I have a 90g tall tank and the Ecoxotic do an excellent job lighting everything. The only dark areas I have are the caves in my rocks http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1888575 I have a litttle bit of eveything in my tank...SPS, LPS, softies, zoas etc..... All doing fine.

12/04/2009, 10:31 PM	#2
Stanley-Reefer Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Stanley, NC Posts: 1,933	LFS has a nano set up with their lights with sps, clams, softies, polyps in the zones as they recommend. The color and shimmer and ABSENCE of heat made for an attractive tank. Dr F/S is backordered on them.

12/05/2009, 08:13 AM	#3
DeepReefExotics Moved On Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 239	I am intrested in some LED supplemental lighting and these look like a nice alternative to the powerbrites. Anyone else have any experience with these and how powerful / how they look? I either wanted to try this or a diy high powered set up but im not the best diy guy round here .

12/07/2009, 04:34 PM	#4
Mandarinman13 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 23	Bump, anybody else have any input??

01/31/2010, 07:48 AM	#7
tbundy Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: wilkes-barre PA Posts: 197	i was at a local frag swap yesterday and they had the blue panorama strip as a raffle prize that I won. ecoxotic had a rep there with some of the products for demo. Some were on a table and some were over a reef. I was very impressed with the brightness, penetration and lack of heat. according to the rep if you have the right setup you can replicate the par and lux values of a 400watt MH. I was so impressed that i used my last $100 to pick up a 8000k white panorama to go with the blue that i won to give it a try. After the 2.5 hour drive home i couldnt wait to see how they looked over my solana 34g. I turned off the 150 MH with a 14k phoenix bulb and help the 8000k strip over and i couldnt believe how close the brightness was. It was a little on the white side compared to the phoenix but i didnt set up the blue strip side by side with the white. I then tried just the blue one. Once again amazed with the brightness along with the glowing of all the zoas and polyps on my sps. Today im going to rig up a quick PVC rack and place both over the tank. Ill take pics and post them later today or tomorrow

01/31/2010, 10:11 AM	#8
reggiepe Seriously? Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Newburg, Pennsylvania Posts: 332	I just purchased a couple of Stunner strips for my 75. I am looking for something to make some colors really pop. Should be here tomorrow or Tuesday. I will share my thoughts once they arrive. tbundy: I am assuming that was the fragswap at TPP? I wanted to go but had prior commitments. Was there a huge turnout?

02/04/2010, 10:19 PM	#10
prNonVTEC4u Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: St. Petersburg Posts: 121	any updates on this? really considering a few stunner strips for my 75g reef also

02/13/2010, 02:52 PM	#11
DeepReefExotics Moved On Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 239	Same here, looking for updates.

08/08/2010, 10:12 PM	#16
moondoggy4 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: menifee So cal Posts: 11,042	Sorry link did not work The led is 48'' long and it is made by Reef Brite Led

08/08/2010, 11:27 PM	#17
wickedfish Moved On Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Southbay Posts: 2,167	I had stunners since March on a 90 g mixed reef turned all fish they do shine up but do not provide any valué to photsynthetic corals it mánaged to strangle all the corals in the tank until i added 2 vho's. If u want 6 pm me they aré for sale