Fuge lighting

[csdoyle]

Good day,

I am looking into a lighting solution to my new 'fuge in my sump. The 'fuge portion is: 12L x 24D x 17H - 21.1 gallons.

I am trying to decide if I should go for a Coralife "marine" setup with 1x 65W Coralife 10,000K and 1x 65W Coralife Actinic Compact Fluorescent Lamps or the freshwater version with two 65 watt 6700°K.

I plan on growing primarily Chateo, so my question is... does Chateo care at all about Actinic light? Would I get more growth all around with 10K, or 6.7K?

Opinions welcome!

Cheers,

Chris

 

[DonW]

6.5 or 6.7 will get you more growth. Actinics are just for looks and are not needed.

Don

 

[ctripi]

Go to Lowes and buy two Sylvania Daylight 23W CF's 6500K; $8 each. And get two ol' school clamp lights with reflectors while you're there; $15 each. My chaeto rages in a 20g. Doubles nearly weekly. Nitrates, phosphates zero! Got to have flo though.

 

[csdoyle]

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into that!

Chris

 

[returnofsid]

I did the same thing with the clamp lamp and the screw in Compact Flourescent daylight bulbs that are meant to replace household bulbs for energy effeciency. Works great and cheap.

 

[hdben]

go to costco and buy the light box they have, cost is 9.00 comes with a PC light 6.5k housing everything. I think the name was All American Lighting, can't beat the pkg.

 

[Dr. Dee]

Sylvania Daylight 75 watt 5500k