Lighting For Corals

[Truck]

i will have 4*24 watt T5s over my 125 litre

i can go with 4* marine white tubes and blue LED's or
3 marine whites and one actinic

would these be of the same benefit coral wise? or would it be better to have more white and the LED's

i know the actinics are blue but do corals mind whether you use white or blue light as i could save money at the same time.

so would 4* marine whites be the same as 3*marine white and 1* actinic tube?

 

[Trod]

I could be talking rubbish here so forgive me but doesn't the blue actinic tube just bring out the colour of the coral more, enhancing the fluorescenceness, if you know what i mean


I take it the LEDs would be for the moonlight

 

[mutantbigman2000]

i would go with 3 white and one blue.

By blue leds did you mean a cheap strip from fleabay or the tmc aquarays?

I have experience of both if you are interested.

 

[Trod]

i would go with 3 white and one blue.

By blue leds did you mean a cheap strip from fleabay or the tmc aquarays?

I have experience of both if you are interested.

I have the cheap Blue LEDS from fleabay, I think they're brilliant

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Basically actinics give very little useable light so the more white tubes you have the more light the corals have. If you go for all white tubes though you wont see the corals at their best as the actinics really bring out the colours. 3 white 1 blue sounds ok, you might be able to get away with 4 white and a blue LED strip, depends on the LEDS really.

 

[Truck]

the LED's are £5 of ebay from hong kong, i believe trod and MBM2000 is using them

 

[TigerIssey]

Could you post a link for those please truck, have looked at them but not sure which HK seller to trust!

 

[Truck]

http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/24-Blue-LED-Beam-Bar...2|39:1|240:1318

looking at these. i believe people on here have bought them before, in the future i will go for TMC aquarays how many would i need over 125 litre tank to be able to keep all softies and LPS corals?

 

[TigerIssey]

Cheers Truck just bought some. I looked at the Aquarays for when I swap the nano into the 4 ft tank. I could finad a chart telling you which set you need depending on the height of the tank but could not find anything about how many strips you need!!
Wanted to price them up but could'nt.

 

[Truck]

well two strips are £170!!! new so i can only see me needing 4 strips max?

 

[TigerIssey]

I have found them £148 but I think that was one of the don't use web sites, will have a look I saved them in favourites. I could not find out the length of them either!

 

[Truck]

I have found them £148 but I think that was one of the don't use web sites, will have a look I saved them in favourites. I could not find out the length of them either!

theyre 50 cm

 

[TigerIssey]

Aquaray

They are £150 on that site and I checked it is not one of the sites run by aquamagic.

 

[Truck]

Aquaray

They are £150 on that site and I checked it is not one of the sites run by aquamagic.

looks like a good read thanks

 

[TigerIssey]

No problem, I would be looking at 1 dual set just to run the length of the 4 foot tank, not sure how many sets I would need. I know its the reef white I would need due to the depth but its how many tubes is the problem. Still I have got a few yrs till I need to buy them so hopefully they will have come down in price a fair bit, although the saving in electricity would be worth the initial outlay in my opinion, if they work that is.