First Aquarium, Lighting Advice?

[Daniel Morales]

Build quality is nice and for a 12 gallon you probably wont need the aditional blue strip.So like $90-100 bucks online.

 

[Daniel Morales]

 

[Daniel Morales]

Thats with just blues.

 

[Brad_HT]

Thanks Daniel... I'm gonna check those out!
B~

 

[mcarroll]

I like @Daniel Morales's advice!

@Brad_HT can you link the JBJ hood you were looking at?

Also, are you up for a low-difficulty DIY project? Lots of tanks your size have been done...check out this thread:
http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/267432-gu10-led-build-thread-chinese-ebay-lights/

Watch the video and then scroll down below the missing photos to see links to all the example builds.

The good ones are all built as strips of bulbs....ignore other designs such as grid layouts.

This might be the best example of your size – only 4 bulbs, or about $16 worth of parts:
Post #765

You won't find a cheaper solution. But check out lots of others examples from that first link too. I've built three of these for my 36" tanks so far.

Holler if you have questions!

 

[Brad_HT]

Well, I've added my first inhabitants. I have one clown, and two corals of some sort... Maybe you can help me identify them...

B~

 

[Daniel Morales]

Looks like a Trumpet Coral & a palythoa or zoanthid.

 

[Daniel Morales]

Little update on the corals my (3x) Current trulumen Pro LEDs support.

 

[Daniel Morales]

I found this old thread and thought I would share what that lighting did for that tank i had.I no longer have this tank but I do have to say it did quite well.And I have since downsized.