Fuge Light

[ChimolaFish]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LMH10HC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Think this will grow chaeto well in about 8" of water? Looking for a small strip to concentrate the light in my refugium. Looks cheap, but for 20$ I'm not expecting much. I know finnex can be hit or miss with quality. Don't want to spend as much on a Ray2.

 

[slief]

Don't waste your time with those. Cheato does great at 6500k or lower. This is essentilly the same light that I use over my fuge. I have a large fuge 36"x30" with 4 10w and two 20 watt versions of these lights. I've been using these lights for years. They work great for growing chaeto, are very inexpensive and are very efficient.

One of these will light your fuge up like Dodger stadium and provided you have enough nutrients in your system to grow chaeto, this light will work insanely well. Best of all, it's cheap and water resistant.

http://www.amazon.com/Waterproof-Se...r=8-13&keywords=10+watt+6500k+LED+Flood+light

 

[ChimolaFish]

Looks great, but my skimmer is like, right next to the fuge and the reason Im switching lights is because the light Im using now is growing algae (including coraline) on the body of the skimmer, which is hard to constantly clean off. Will the light spill over? They say spotlight, is it super powerful? Haha

 

[slief]

Looks great, but my skimmer is like, right next to the fuge and the reason Im switching lights is because the light Im using now is growing algae (including coraline) on the body of the skimmer, which is hard to constantly clean off. Will the light spill over? They say spotlight, is it super powerful? Haha

Get a black piece of ABS, bend the edge of it so it forms a J and hang it on the acrylic that seperates the two sections as a divider between the fuge and the skimmer section. That will help solve your issue. Light and skimmers are not a good idea so I'd address the issue at the source. A light change won't really solve the issue. A black divider or some krylon fusion will do wonders.

 

[ChimolaFish]

I thought about doing some sort of rig, but I want to avoid cluttering the space under my stand, which is rather cluttered already though. I'll weight the options. Thanks though. I'll probably use the flood light on my other tank.

 

[nuxx]

Ours is growing like it's on fire with a 165 watt cheap Chinese LED

 

[slief]

Ours is growing like it's on fire with a 165 watt cheap Chinese LED

That's an awful lot of light for a macro that doesn't need that kind of intensity. If you don't mind wasting energy, then I'm sure it will grow despite not being the ideal spectrum but there are much more efficient lights to grow you chaeto with. :thumbsup: Heck, if you don't mind the power cunsumption and think your chaeto grows well now, try using a 150 watt HPS halide bulb..

 

[nuxx]

That's an awful lot of light for a macro that doesn't need that kind of intensity. If you don't mind wasting energy, then I'm sure it will grow despite not being the ideal spectrum but there are much more efficient lights to grow you chaeto with. :thumbsup: Heck, if you don't mind the power cunsumption and think your chaeto grows well now, try using a 150 watt HPS halide bulb..

LOL

Trying to also put a hybrid type algae scrubber down there as well...

That area gets a lot of algae growth haha

So far after 3 days:

 

[slief]

LOL

Trying to also put a hybrid type algae scrubber down there as well...

That area gets a lot of algae growth haha

So far after 3 days:

Definitely not a great light for turf algae.. You need much more red spectrum vs full spectrum for best turf growth. Great idea though.