IM Fusion 10 Light question

[lostsol95]

I'm brand new to reef tanks and building my first, and want to keep it simple and see if I stick with it. I don't want fish, and I only want to have LPS coral like green star polyps. Does anyone have any experience with the Finnex Fugeray Marine+ LED light on the Fusion 10? By specs it seems it might be underpowered, but I've read a few reviews saying that it worked great. It's also a Fuge, so maybe it will grow too much algae and not be for my only tank.
It's relatively inexpensive compared to others, but I don't want to get too discouraged if I can't even get the simple stuff to grow.

The specs I found:
PAR Data(Source) PAR vs. Distance from source
12" fixture: 62 PAR @ 6", 25 PAR @ 12", 13 PAR @ 18"

The website says:
46 x Actinic Blue Moonlights
24 x 10,000K Daylight
8.9 Total Watts (which may not matter as much because it's LED)

Thanks

 

[robn70]

I just run a par 38 bulb from Coral Compulsion in a clip on socket from Lowes. Seems to be working fine for softies and LPS. Total cost was a little over $100.00

 

[lostsol95]

IM Fusion 10 Light question

Thanks, sounds like the way to go.

 

[BfishLpond78]

As most people get into the hobby they eventually want to evolve into better equipment, higher light corals and so on.

As stated before if you'd like to have a very nice light, with great control and customer service. I would look at the AI prime for that tank.

 

[Ron Reefman]

It's relatively inexpensive compared to others, but I don't want to get too discouraged if I can't even get the simple stuff to grow.

The specs I found:
PAR Data(Source) PAR vs. Distance from source
12" fixture: 62 PAR @ 6", 25 PAR @ 12", 13 PAR @ 18"

The website says:
46 x Actinic Blue Moonlights
24 x 10,000K Daylight
8.9 Total Watts (which may not matter as much because it's LED)

Watts matter, you just can't consider watts/gallon as a standard anymore.
You have 70 leds and it runs at 9watts? Yikes! That's barely 0.1 watt/led. Even Current and Marineland under powered fixtures run about 0.3 to 0.5watts/led.

How big is your tank? If it's more than 12" deep, that fixture is useless. You really want a PAR of at least 100 at however deep your tank is. Mine is almost 200 at 24" deep and the 3 watt leds are powered at 2.2watts/led.

 

[reefwiser]

The Aqua Ilumination prime light is wonderful on the IM 10. I have several friends who use it with great results.

 

[lostsol95]

Watts matter, you just can't consider watts/gallon as a standard anymore.
You have 70 leds and it runs at 9watts? Yikes! That's barely 0.1 watt/led. Even Current and Marineland under powered fixtures run about 0.3 to 0.5watts/led.

How big is your tank? If it's more than 12" deep, that fixture is useless. You really want a PAR of at least 100 at however deep your tank is. Mine is almost 200 at 24" deep and the 3 watt leds are powered at 2.2watts/led.

Thanks Ron, it's the Fusion 10 Length 12” Width: 15” Height: 13”
I decided on the Nano Box Tide Plus M, so doing the math.... 13 LED's (plus the X LED's for moonlights) divided by (24V x 2.8A = 67.2 Watts) equals .19 .... I can't be doing this right
http://nanoboxreef.com/mini.html

Then I found:
CH1 (2x Luxeon T 2700K warm white, 1x Luxeon T 4000K neutral white, 2x Rebel ES lime)
13.6v @ 350mA (4.8 watts)
14v @ 700mA (9.8 watts)
14.3v @ 1A (14.3 watts)

CH2 (4x Luxeon T royal blue)
10.9v @ 350mA (3.8 watts)
11.2v @ 700mA (7.8 watts)
11.5v @ 1A (11.5 watts)

CH3 (2x SemiLEDs C35 violet)
6.8v @ 350mA (2.4 watts)
7.2v @ 700mA (5 watts)

CH4 (1x Rebel blue, 1x Rebel cyan)
5.8v @ 350mA (2 watts)
6.2v @ 700mA (4.3 watts)
6.4v @ 1A (6.4 watts)

 

[lostsol95]

The Aqua Ilumination prime light is wonderful on the IM 10. I have several friends who use it with great results.

Thanks Reefwiser, it was between the nano box and the AI, and I liked what I read about the quality of the nano box, and I thought that if I were to have one light for the long term I should go with the nano box. I've only received my algae scraper in the mail at this point , so hopefully I made the right choice!