Biocube leds and coral growth

Suggsreef · Nov 21, 2019

Was wondering what everyone has had success growing with stock biocube leds?

Things you’ve tried and lights weren’t enough for?

Considering switching lights eventually but I have to leave my hood on and don’t care too much for the look of a light on top of the hood.

William Norman · Nov 21, 2019

Suggs - I use my biocube 17 as my invert and coral qt. I was noticing that the coral were not reacting well. My seneye said the par readings where around 100-75. so I took the stock out and put in a SBReef Sprite(Nano) reef. I keep it as far back on the tank as I can and have it on the lowest settings. Now my par is 300-100 While they are in QT they seem to react better. I just need to be careful on placement depending on type of coral. Frags that want low light go in the front and SPS towards the back. SBReef has a video on how to cut your hood to fit their light.

Katrina71 · Nov 21, 2019

Steve's LEDs! My son can grow anything!

Colinadam80 · Nov 21, 2019

Stock Biocube lights will keep softies and LPS happy.

I had a 16g Biocube and the main issue was with Palys, they would stretch towards the light.

I kept some SPS in the upper 1/3rd of the tank and had good luck with then keeping color, things like the ORA green birdsnest and montipora all kept their color.
Stay away from acros, I had a nice Milli that looked like crap under those lights.

Suggsreef · Nov 23, 2019

Colinadam80 said:
Stock Biocube lights will keep softies and LPS happy.

I had a 16g Biocube and the main issue was with Palys, they would stretch towards the light.

I kept some SPS in the upper 1/3rd of the tank and had good luck with then keeping color, things like the ORA green birdsnest and montipora all kept their color.
Stay away from acros, I had a nice Milli that looked like crap under those lights.