He does have the money to spend on them so why not. And he does have some rare, exotic and very expensive corals in there. And Mario will price match if u have proof of the price. On livestock and dry goodsif you have eight lights at $500 each above a frag tank, you are charging waaaaaay too much when you sell your frags. no non-commercial grower needs a 210 gallon frag tank IMO.
also, $500 is a very steep price to pay for 24 LEDs, not that i think the ilumination setups are bad, they are just not very cost efficient.
fancy store by the way. though i doubt their livestock prices will ever compete with my LFS, and i get my dry goods online with no tax. but wouldn't mind dropping in there if i am ever in the area.
theyre barely starting to convert. this is actually the first fixtrue. they decided to try it on their tank with the sps which needs the most lighting and they said that so far everything is going excellent they got 30 of these fixtures and sold out within a week so i think they said they got 30 more coming. and then theyre going to do all their coral tanks with leds so they will be saving some money on their electric bill. and even more if they swap out their fish tanks t5s for some leds also.I actually can't imagine how much those other coral stores pay for electricity with all the 250 and 400 metal hallides that they run. Aquatica actually saves alot of money using LED's. Some of the other fish stores power bills probably easily run over $1000/month with all the metal hallides that they run.
if you have eight lights at $500 each above a frag tank, you are charging waaaaaay too much when you sell your frags. no non-commercial grower needs a 210 gallon frag tank IMO.
also, $500 is a very steep price to pay for 24 LEDs, not that i think the ilumination setups are bad, they are just not very cost efficient.
fancy store by the way. though i doubt their livestock prices will ever compete with my LFS, and i get my dry goods online with no tax. but wouldn't mind dropping in there if i am ever in the area.
I actually can't imagine how much those other coral stores pay for electricity with all the 250 and 400 metal hallides that they run. Aquatica actually saves alot of money using LED's. Some of the other fish stores power bills probably easily run over $1000/month with all the metal hallides that they run.