Lighting question

The "snobby people at the lfs" are correct by saying that fixture won't grow coral. Other than a few mushrooms and some soft coral, that light won't be able to grow much at 35 watts. I'm curious to know what several corals you kept successfully, and how long you have had them

If you could share some more details such as what kinds of corals, how long you have had them and what you desire to keep, we might be able to help out a little more.

You generally get what you pay for in this hobby, and the cheap led fixtures are just that. Heck, even the expensive ones are sometimes misleading.

Personally, it doesn't appear your tank is very old, and you seem new yourself (it's OK we've all been there, and I'm still a noob). I would just sit back, let the tank get a little more mature, study, and make a decision after a little more experience is gained. You will be much more satisfied if you go slow with this
 
I'm a complete noob. Had my tank up for over 6 months using this light, I have kept two candy coral. Two anemones (now thread they split) I kept frog spawn for months and it just died (think I may have a bad crab) , I have ritteri, I have mushrooms splitting, Xenia splitting. I just got some acropora about a week ago it's doing fine. I have leather coral doing awesome. I wanna grow everything possible
 
I know I could safely. Assume that more expensive lights would be better with more options (most of the time) but if they are using the same parts as expensive ones why spend 1000$. I paid more for my fluval light then the LED from china
 
All my corals have done awesome other than frog spawn. So I'm assuming the light is ok. Took a long time for the anemone to split.
 
Well, they are not the same parts, and the customer service is far from close to a big brand. Anemones splitting isn't always a good thing, sometimes they split as a survival instinct. from the way you talk, it sounds as if your fluval fixture is working quite well for you, so why even change?

Just trying to save you some coin, and a little trouble....
 
Lighting question

What size is your tank? That acro better be centered under the light and up high if you want a chance to keep it colored and grow.
 
28gallon. The acro is exactly where you said it should be. I figured because everyone said my lights are **** I should do that
 
Why change. Because I want to keep hard corals and grow them. Eventually start fragging. This is my 28g. Il prob try the Mars Aqua for my 75gallon
 
Reading back at this post. Looking at what "redwhiteandblue" wrote about my lights being crap and wouldn't grow anything.

Well sir you couldn't have been more wrong. I've had great growth with all my corals. Guess those snobby people and people like you give crap info to people.
 
I've kept acro's considered to be difficult. 8 months with excellent growth. Lol. Like every form on the internet you have people who give information when they should probably not. Like RWandblue.
 
Pictures of your tank please.
It seem like you contradict yourself in this thread. You say your asking because you want to keep hard corals ,then say you have kept acro's for 8 months with excellent growth. I fine it hard to believe acro's will have good growth under that light. So pictures of your set up would be nice.
 
I'm sorry there is absolutely no way that fixture will give sufficient light to grow acropora, which is arguably the most light demanding coral we can keep, not unless you are sellotaping the coral to the light!! 35w!! and 25k colour temperature, it must be really blue!
I'd love to know what PAR that light is giving out! As an example my old Hydra52 at 135w gave 350PAR at mid tank level when set at 100%, that would mean your light gives around 85PAR at mid tank level (assuming it uses the same setup as the Hydra52s....which it won't)
Acropora generally need between 200 and 400PAR for decent growth and generally 10K is the best setting for growth, with 20K enhancing colour more than growth.
I'd love to see pictures too!
 
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How can you tell someone that their light will not grow acro. When I just said I have lol I don't care about your numbers. I care about truth. And what people have told me about my lights, all have been completely WRONG! The acro wasn't my fav thing so I traded it. I basically bought it too test the lights. It grew very well, looked healthy the whole time.
 
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It's behind the pulsing Xenia sorry for the bad pic. When I bought it it was small with one branch and as you can see there are more than that. Great polyp extension
 
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