Good deal on grow light but can i use it for corals

[ddckec6972]

Bought a Hi-sdard 1000W full spectrum led grow light for 5 bucks...Can i use it for corals. Sorry i cant post a pic now. Im on my phone. And dont know how. Lol.

 

[Gatorfan]

Looks like way too much red/orange/yellow spectrum for an aquarium. Unless you could turn those channels way down(<5%) or use if for a refugium/ATS.

 

[ddckec6972]

Sadly is got one setting .... on...... thats it. Lol

 

[ddckec6972]

There are two switches. The on switch fires up the blue leds and the other switch fires up the other colors. What about using just the blue lights

 

[BClute]

Bought a Hi-sdard 1000W full spectrum led grow light for 5 bucks...Can i use it for corals. Sorry i cant post a pic now. Im on my phone. And dont know how. Lol.

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[ddckec6972]

here it is. the bloom switch does not work, so only the blue leds come on.

 

[Lsufan]

I’m no lighting expert which is why I stick to MH & T5 so I’m sure someone will chime in with more knowledge.

From what I can tell out of all of those LEDs there are only a few that are the spectrum that corals need. So I don’t think it will work for anything except for growing algea in your display. On top of that I don’t see how u will be able to get a spectrum that looks even remotely good to the eye for viewing the tank.

 

[ddckec6972]

well i already got kessil lights. i picked this up in the hopes i could use in a future frag tank or something. i guess its to the storage build for this one.