SPS coral lighting

[abulgin]

Originally posted by krowleey
say WHAT?? before you tell people the NEP is a bad fixture that will not work for SPS you should research the mass of peop0le using them for SPS. in fact the NEP seems to perform better than the TEK, it actually has cooling while the TEK does not. If you had a NEP and failed with SPS then you failed, not the fixture.

Nova Extreme Pro Club

Okay, if you say so, but please read first.

First, this isn't the Nova Extreme Pro, which is a much better fixture with 6 lights and better reflectors, so your NEP club needs to recruit elsewhere. Second, I didn't fail at anything. Third, my experience is with the old Nova Extreme with one reflector. Fourth, cooling fans don't make a light, I hate to tell you. I'd take the TEK over this $200 Current any day of the week. Reflector quality plays a huge role in output. If you have tinfoil for reflectors, well, you have tinfoil for reflectors.

[jmjohnson]

I had the 48 nova extreme PRO and kept everything just fine. Seriously, I had bubble tip split twice and grew a 1 inch orange monti cap to 5 inches in less than a year. Digi and acropora grew just fine with this fixture and all of them were about 1' from the surface.

[rtaylors3]

Alright....the link i posted wasn't the one I bought. I was having a brain fart and couldn't remember where I bought it so I just looked for one like it. The one I have says it has individual reflectors and yes they do look like hte reflector has beeen bent to surround each bulb. Honstly I didn't know there was another way to create individual reflectors. The light I had before was a marineland single reflector with old bulbs and my anemone is huge and very happy.

[krowleey]

Originally posted by abulgin
Okay, if you say so, but please read first.

First, this isn't the Nova Extreme Pro, which is a much better fixture with 6 lights and better reflectors, so your NEP club needs to recruit elsewhere. Second, I didn't fail at anything. Third, my experience is with the old Nova Extreme with one reflector. Fourth, cooling fans don't make a light, I hate to tell you. I'd take the TEK over this $200 Current any day of the week. Reflector quality plays a huge role in output. If you have tinfoil for reflectors, well, you have tinfoil for reflectors.

i did read buddy.

if you can return it, I would. This is not a great fixture, and neither is the Pro. Go to a TEK

i was commenting how you dog the pro with absolutely no knowledge or experience with it. the NEP club is simply a place for you or anyone that would like to get knowledge may do so from people that actually USE the fixture. and yes cooling fans do make a t-5 light, please go Here and get informed. and notice how i was not talking about the old current i was commenting on your comment about the pro, and how you are rating it with no experience with it. you can have the TEK, but my mission was to point out from other people experience how well the current t-5 fixtures can be (with individual reflectors). Also how many people rate the NEP over a TEK. have a nice evening.

[abulgin]

I have experience with the Pro--through friends, family and other hobbyists. I have never used the Pro, but from what I have read and heard the TEK is a better fixture. I am not saying, nor do I believe, that you cannot grow SPS under the Pro. I know you can--that's why I said it was a much better fixture than the regular NE. It's ecent fixture--I jus think there are better ones out there for not much more.