Do I have Adequate Lighting For SPS?

[tanked_life]

Hello all, as the title indicates, I am thinking of getting a great deal on a Ultimate Blue Stag colony. What I want to know is if I have adequate lighting to support this beautiful coral. Currently I have a topless Oceanic Biocube 29 with a custom bracket I made that is holding two Fluvial sea Nano Led lights approximately 6 inches above the water. I had great growth of my superman cyphastrea coral Nd that was just with one fluvial sea led light 19 inches above the water. Now I have two right beside each other only 6 inches above the water. Can I support this coral with the lighting I have? Or any SPS in that matter?

Thank you for all Responses.

 

[tanked_life]

Bump. Please respond if you have the answer. Thank you very much. I dont want to kill any corals

 

[USAFReefer]

Unfortunately I don't think 2 of those lights will be enough for acros. Without trying it though it is just a guess. Any way you can get a small frag of a cheap acro from someone to test before investing money or sacrificing a colony?

Issue I have with those lights is they are 1990's LEDs, .1 watt LEDs, which don't provide much intensity in order to penetrate water to far. 14w / 156 LEDs = .089w per LED.

 

[Peter Eichler]

Probably not... Keep in mind that cyphastea like you describe is one of the lowest light corals out there.

 

[bogg]

Try a montipora first

 

[jayball]

While they have a good spectrum (>400 - 470 is covered completely) there is just not enough power.

Even if it can keep a acro alive (possibly, way up in the tank) I doubt you will ever see any good growth or color.

 

[tanked_life]

Hey guys ty for your reply, I wanted to update this. I have had a green monti cap grow out of its mind before it got steamrolled by my RBTA and that was just under one of these lights. Now I have two and i am going to try and orange monti cap, a birds nest, tort, and style frags before I even think of the colony.

Thank you all for your help and I will update the thread periodically with pictures to see if this works.

I will also dose my tank with cal/alk with buffers of mag and keep my frags high up with nice flow to keep them healthy and stimulate growth.

 

[tanked_life]

Also do you think it will be a good idea to add a small t5 or Metal halide to the combination if I don see good color/color loss?

 

[bogg]

Of course

 

[tanked_life]

Of course

Ok thank you all for the response. Updates will come soon enough for when I get the corals