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Looking to borrow a PAR meter

Jeremy Brito

Jeremy Brito

Hey guys I bought some new lights and I want to check out how well they are working and get an,idea of the light intensity at diffrent depths in my tank for future coral placement awarness. I looked online to find a par meter but found that the cost for even cheap ones is kinda high for something ill only be using occasionally. I was wondering if anyone in the club had one they could let me borrow for a day or two?. I read on reef to reef that a lot of clubs have a club owned PAR meter they share/lend to there members and that even some LFS rent them prehapes we should look into that
 
Mark_C

Mark_C

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Been discussed a number of times in the past. Cost is high, demand would be considerable, nothing to stop a member from disappearing with it, if a member suddenly has to uproot item is lost, etc...
Aquarium Care Center in Ocean rents one out. Not too expensive, something like $30 if I remember correctly.
Personally I used to be hot on being quite scientific and numbers based. I rented said PAR a couple of times, made charts, plotted things, etc...
Yet never really used any of the info, always just adjusted the lights and moved frags until corals seemed happy.
 
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