the light for corals

springsam

New Member
Hello everyone,

Would you please help a newbie with the light recommendations. It is the most difficult question for me when planning the reef tank. In short. I will have a 90 gal tank. Among all types of corals I like purple, pipe corals, leather and those ones that look like flowers. Can I light them with the flouresent lighting fixture?

thnaks
 
Hello everyone,

Would you please help a newbie with the light recommendations. It is the most difficult question for me when planning the reef tank. In short. I will have a 90 gal tank. Among all types of corals I like purple, pipe corals, leather and those ones that look like flowers. Can I light them with the flouresent lighting fixture?

thnaks
Hello there,

You could light your tank with fluorescent, metal halid, or even LED lights for your tank. Each of those lighting fixtures have advantages and disadvantages like about the cost, maintenance, voltage consumption, and temperature affected to your tank system.

Here is the tank set up lighting suggestion example for 100 gallon tank.100-gallon-lighting.jpg *LED lights need 2-3 watt per gallon (High Power LED)

Fluorescent light might be need replacement every year, so for the best result and efficiency, I suggest you to use LED lighting, this kind of lighting has more advantages than others. Less maintenance, low temperature, low energy/watts, and longer life time. But it is also depend with the budget hehe :)
 
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lost-id

Well-Known Member
Hello everyone,

Would you please help a newbie with the light recommendations. It is the most difficult question for me when planning the reef tank. In short. I will have a 90 gal tank. Among all types of corals I like purple, pipe corals, leather and those ones that look like flowers. Can I light them with the flouresent lighting fixture?

thnaks

Welcome to RF,
If budget is not the issue i suggest you use t5ho for best coloration or hightech branded led such as kessil or orphek.

Btw, may i know dimension of your tank? If you can add some pic would be even better.
 

springsam

New Member
Fluorescent light might be need replacement every year, so for the best result and efficiency, I suggest you to use LED lighting, this kind of lighting has more advantages than others. Less maintenance, low temperature, low energy/watts, and longer life time. But it is also depend with the budget hehe :)

Thanks guys for the informative replies. This is the size 48″ x 18″ x 24″

Unfortunately, I can not add the photos, because I do not have corals now (only empty tank)

The budget is small, so maybe I will take the flouresent lamps now and later I will change them for good Led lamps.

Well, I viewed the table. According to that I think I can take 4 these bulbs https://www.mrosupply.com/lighting/...llasts/1854152_flft5eh54w850_fulham-lighting/ If to consider fluorescent bulbs, is it correct?
 

E_2091

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Staff member
for 48in tank, 54w t5ho bulb is the correct size...but that bulb in your link will make ur tank very very yellow...u better use aquarium lamp brand...like aquazonic or hagen for low budget lamp....where r u located btw?
 
Thanks guys for the informative replies. This is the size 48″ x 18″ x 24″

Unfortunately, I can not add the photos, because I do not have corals now (only empty tank)

The budget is small, so maybe I will take the flouresent lamps now and later I will change them for good Led lamps.

Well, I viewed the table. According to that I think I can take 4 these bulbs https://www.mrosupply.com/lighting/...llasts/1854152_flft5eh54w850_fulham-lighting/ If to consider fluorescent bulbs, is it correct?
The lamp on the link is only 5000K, so its not the correct bulb choices, for reef aquarium you need bulbs with 10000K color temp or more. Less than 10000K color temp, your corals will not survive :)

If you consider to use T5HO fluorescent bulb:

For your aquarium dimension, you need 4 ea of this:
http://www.amazon.com/Aquatic-Life-54-Watt-46-5-Inch-Aquarium/dp/B001XRVTOK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450158808&sr=8-1&keywords=T5ho 10000k

Plus 2 ea actinic blue of this:
http://www.amazon.com/Coralife-80410-Actinic-Fluorescent-54-Watt/dp/B002V82B9C/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1450158966&sr=8-2&keywords=t5ho actinic

Or if you wanna make it look more bluish you can add more actinic blue light :)
 
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