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White light will do, LED or T5 all can use as long as its bright enough. U can on it 24hrs a day or in reverse cycle with your main display tank's lighting period. Hope this helps.

Display Tank : 36" x 20" x 20" Herbie overflow box design, Sump : 36" x 21" x 17", Frag Tank : 16” x 20” x 16”, custom built by Tank Culture.

Lightings : Ecotech  Radion XR15 Pro x 2 for Main Display Tank, Inled R80 x 1 for Frag Tank.

Chiller : Dalkin 1hp compressor with build-in drop coil.

Skimmer : Skimz Octa SC205i Protein Skimmer.

FR : H2Ocean FMR75 Fluidised Media Reactor with Hailea HX-2500 (Feeder Pump) running Rowaphos.

CR : Skimz Monzter E Series CM122 Calcium Reactor.

BPR: Marine Source Biopellet  Reactor with Continuum Reef Biopellet Fuel. 

Main Return Pump : SICCE Syncra ADV 9.0 & Jebao ACQ-10000 Water Pump.

Wavemaker : Jebao MOW-9 x2 for Main Display Tank & Jebao SLW-20M  Sine Wave Pump for  Frag Tank.

Water Top Up: AutoAqua Smart ATO Lite.

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Tact on the thread. Does watts matter? Eg 5w or 15w matters?

More watt usually mean greater brightness however some LED has similar PAR output with fluorescent tube but with consuming lesser wattageThis which is also why LED is commonly call green lighting.

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Hi All Seniors,

I would like to ask I have a refugium with cheato growing, the tank is close to 1feet deep and I have a 10w LED Daylight running 24hrs. I am slowly seeing the cheato turning from Green to very light green. I am worry it will turn white and die off.

My question, is the water too deep or I need a shallow water to run a refugium? Is my light strong enough to penetrate to the cheato?

pls advise and appreciate.

Thanks!

Kelvin Lim

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Hi All Seniors,

I would like to ask I have a refugium with cheato growing, the tank is close to 1feet deep and I have a 10w LED Daylight running 24hrs. I am slowly seeing the cheato turning from Green to very light green. I am worry it will turn white and die off.

My question, is the water too deep or I need a shallow water to run a refugium? Is my light strong enough to penetrate to the cheato?

pls advise and appreciate.

Thanks!

Kelvin Lim

A shallow tank is preferred, and i think your 10W LED is not bright enough for growth. I used to use PAR38 LED and the result is satisfactory.

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Use warm light whether you using T5 or LED. That is 6700 k.

You need less then 10 watt(per led) to light up your sump and get it flourish.

3 to 5 watt per led is the best.

Number of LED depend on your area of coverage

6.5 * 2 * 2 + 3.75 * 1.5 *1.5,(Decomn on 14/9/08)
4*2*2 + 2.5*1.25*1.25 (Decomn on 1/8/09)
5*2*2 (Fully LED light system, 140 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)
2.5*2*2(Fully LED Light System,96 3 watt SSC leds with 60 degree lens)(Decomm)

5*2.5*2(LED only)

Eheim return 1 * pump

1 HP Daikin compressor with cooling coil
2 Jebao OW40, 1 ecotech MP40,
1X6085 Tunze wm,

1 CURVE 7 Skimmer

  1 DIY 80 led control by Bluefish mini 

1 radion XR30W G2, 2 Radion XR15G3

Sump area lite by 5 ft T5 , 6 * SSC 3 watt red LED for refugium

1 Full spectrum E27 led light

1 CR control by bubble count

Start No Water Change since 1st Dec 2016

Add new 2.5x2x 1.5 ft 

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