Cree Refugium light

[Fishsticks86]

This is for my new setup. I ordered some cree leds for my lights but decided to do the fuge with led also.
4 warm white and one red.
Total cost about 32 dollars, left over heat sink, and plexiglass for slash-guard.
Planning to grow some dragon breath and chaeto, will get back with results in a couple months since my tank is not even up yet.

 

[Peppie]

Sweet little fuge lite. How big is the fuge going to be?

 

[jmp21677]

I have a dimmable led light from Costco. It has six three watt LEDs and grows chaeto like crazy.

 

[Fishsticks86]

Thanks my fuge is about 20 gallon, good to hear it works! Just couldn't believe how cheap it was. I almost went to homedepot and bought one of those halogen.

 

[rainydave]

I have a dimmable led light from Costco. It has six three watt LEDs and grows chaeto like crazy.

Do you have the item number for this light? I'd like to check it out.

 

[jmp21677]

I don't. They are just down the bulb aisle. I think it was 35 dollars with a 15 dollar instant rebate

 

[Somethings Fishy]

nice!

 

[Fishsticks86]

Got the light and ballast mounted. Almost ready to roll!

 

[DolphinLVR]

Do you have the item number for this light? I'd like to check it out.

Hrmmmmm I am going to have to check this out as well! I want to move towards LED for my refugium

 

[1guydude]

i heard that flourescents are better for algaes... that leds didnt do that well with plants... im intrested to see how the leds work.

 

[fall0n]

Hrmmmmm I am going to have to check this out as well! I want to move towards LED for my refugium

For my fuge - i went with the gu10 bulbs ( from rothany ). THey have 3 1w leds in them. Have 3 white and 2 blues ( If i remember correctly). Seems to be doing well. Not enough time yet to see if the dragons breath is liking it or not.

 

[Skimmy]

when it comes to led colors for terrestrial plants, you want blue and white light for vegative growth,
and red/blue/orange for flowering, so im curious if blue and white light only would keep any algae, particularly caluerpa,
from going sexual, it would also have to be on a 18-24 hr light cycle so as to not stimulate the algae to start "flowering"/going sexual with a 12 hr cycle.

 

[1guydude]

i kept calupra in a hob fuge with one of those 50/50 $8 bulbs from petsmart.i think the reds are better than the blues though for plant growth.

 

[Fishsticks86]

I just saw this at homedepot. Probably would use this if I didn't buy the leds. Cost about 10 bucks and its dimmable.

 

[Fishsticks86]

From what I read the warm white area is better to grow chaeto, thus the reason why i used warm white and red, adding a different spectrum is also easy and cheap.