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The LED lights are insane especially when they burn out after a number of years. You have to replace the entire fixture.
Awesome question!
Your most colorfully Coraline - yellow, purple, green, pink, etc.. needs Hard Coral rated lighting for the coloration to POP so to speak.
Power Compacts produce more or less Red and Maroon, Str8 up Florcents will grow coraline but more often then not it will be the color White.
I have a 65 gallon with a 250 mh the coralline is amazing blue green orange pink purple it just depends where the light is hitting the rock as to where the different colors grow
Well ended up getting a T5HO light its from Deep blue it has one 10,000k bulb, one Actinic-3 bulb, and LED moonlights.
The only thing that i don't like about it is that the LED are on all the time.
What type of corals would be good with this light and ones that are good for a beginner?
The only thing that i don't like about it is that the LED are on all the time.
What type of corals would be good with this light and ones that are good for a beginner?
how many watts total? You have a 20 gallon tank so as long as you have 80+- watts total you will be ok to start.
The soft corals need roughly 3+- watts/gallon (so for you that's 60-80 watts of lights) . The hard core stuff needs 6-8 (for you that would be 120/160 watts)
The 50/50 spectrum was a good call.
This is going off what I have read of cource. I have not grown any coral yet. But plan too someday.
The soft corals need roughly 3+- watts/gallon (so for you that's 60-80 watts of lights) . The hard core stuff needs 6-8 (for you that would be 120/160 watts)
The 50/50 spectrum was a good call.
This is going off what I have read of cource. I have not grown any coral yet. But plan too someday.
So total you have 4 bulbs in the fixture?
Depending on what you like, I've found many LPS to be good beginner corals - Candy cane or Trumpet corals (caulastrea furcata), Frogspawn coral (Euphyllia divisa) Hammer coral (Euphyllia ancora), and most Mushrooms are easy to care for. Do a little research and find out what you like.
Moonlights aren't a bad thing - without going deep into it helps stabliize PH. A T5HO rated for 20gal tanks should grow most anything - the tanks not that deep.
how many watts total? You have a 20 gallon tank so as long as you have 80+- watts total you will be ok to start.
The soft corals need roughly 3+- watts/gallon (so for you that's 60-80 watts of lights) . The hard core stuff needs 6-8 (for you that would be 120/160 watts)
The 50/50 spectrum was a good call.
This is going off what I have read of cource. I have not grown any coral yet. But plan too someday.
I believe i only have 48 watts total with the bulbs, does the LED's count for anything?
So total you have 4 bulbs in the fixture?
Depending on what you like, I've found many LPS to be good beginner corals - Candy cane or Trumpet corals (caulastrea furcata), Frogspawn coral (Euphyllia divisa) Hammer coral (Euphyllia ancora), and most Mushrooms are easy to care for. Do a little research and find out what you like.
No just the one 10,000k bulb and the one Actinic-03 bulb plus the 4 LED's.
