Gresham, Jake has only LED on his tanks from what I understood. Are all of his smaller than 120? What I heard him say is for the average hobbyist cost benefit is not quite there yet. However he suggests playing with the LED as much as one can and suggested blue supplementation was a great place to start to get off the t5 bulb crack. The initial cost is the limiting factor for hobbyist. The lights are growing/coloring up coral. Did you understand differently?
I agree if you are saying one Reefbrite strip will not provide equal light as two 250 MH. Rich may use two to four white strips or one or two white strips and spots on his five foot tank.
I also liked Jake's experimenting comments and how as we all add LED to our tanks all the components from bin numbers, to color of bulb selection, to driver, to hours on, to lenses used, to height from water, to spots versus blanket, that all these components will be shared and experimented with to make each set up an ongoing trial. Reefing is a hands on trick. Many of us enjoy looking at them, most of us get up and tweak something.
I'm doubting it could do a 120g or a 180g though Rich. Not for a full blown reef.
