help me with the right refugium light

[exnisstech]

Thx! I got a red sea 500 fleaceroller as mechanical filter. But maybee i have to crawl back to a skimmer.....

Have you been running the roller long? I added a reefmat 500 to my reefer 300 in November and pulled it a few weeks ago because I feel it was removing too much and corals were looking poor. I may put it back in and just turn it off at night and let it over flow. It is nice not having to clean socks. Rollers can be very effective.
Curious what are your NO3 and PO4 levels currently?

 

[klavmaister]

Have you been running the roller long? I added a reefmat 500 to my reefer 300 in November and pulled it a few weeks ago because I feel it was removing too much and corals were looking poor. I may put it back in and just turn it off at night and let it over flow. It is nice not having to clean socks. Rollers can be very effective.
Curious what are your NO3 and PO4 levels currently?

when I ran fleasroller and deltec 600i, the skimmer stopped after a few days, there was nothing to skim. red sea fleacroller is a beast. I'm actually a bit unsure, I struggled for a long time with 0-0 values, but it was because I didn't have any fish (died of ich) cheato was thrown in two weeks ago, had about 25 in nitrate then, now 10. but difficult to say as I have just finished a round of cyano. have a lot of lps and 7 fish

 

[Reefering1]

 

[klavmaister]

Testet with hanna checker Nitrates sitte at 7.5ppm. It have been redused from around 20ppm. I had a massiv cyano outbreake.had no skimmer running, and put in a refugium with cheato morpha after the cyan outbreak was over. can see that brown algae has started to appear on the sand. Anyone have a good explanation? Nutrients?

 

[JNalley]

Testet with hanna checker Nitrates sitte at 7.5ppm. It have been redused from around 20ppm. I had a massiv cyano outbreake.had no skimmer running, and put in a refugium with cheato morpha after the cyan outbreak was over. can see that brown algae has started to appear on the sand. Anyone have a good explanation? Nutrients?

The brown on the sand in your photo is diatoms. They will slowly go away too. If you want to speed up the process you can get sand sifters. Goby, Cerith Snails, Trochus Snails, and conch's will all help, but the tank looks a bit small for a larger sand sifting goby (like a dragon sleeper) so maybe a YWG or something would be better suited. I am also not sure if the sand is deep enough for a conch judging from the picture, but someone can correct me. My Fighting conch likes to get all the way underneath the sand sometimes, my sand bed is 3" mostly and even 4" deep in some places.


Check out www.reefcleaners.org

They have a healthy supply of various CUC species and list what each of them likes to eat. Find one that says sand and diatoms in the description and get a few of those.

 

[klavmaister]

Thx

 

[tfeeken]

I just replaced one of these after about 4 years. The last one wasn't as powerful but it just grows faster. I have it on for 12 hrs and off for 12 hrs opposite of my light schedule. Works incredibly well for a $30 grow light.

Amazon grow light

 

[Skard]

I have the same light as Tfeeken above, great light and I run it on a 12 hour cycle as well. My chaetomorpha grows like crazy under this light.

 

[NoWaiAma]

Got a trigger 39 upgrade tryna decide on a light myself. Mostly to sustain macro pods and prisoners

 

[klavmaister]

Coclution, I ditched the refugium and whent with a Bubel king dubbel cone 130

 

[radiata]

I love Kessils they are great lights and they have a long history of growing plants. With that said the pink hue of typical fuge lights is not any where as good as full spectrum at growing most macros. I would think Kessil would know that. Apparently they dont. In the past have used the h160 and the bigger one ( h360/380 maybe) neither compared to a lamp with full spectrum on my macros. I ran t5ho over my display fuge. Currently I run a fluval 3.0 over my fuge and have had to pull feather and grape caulerpa out because its so dense, tank has only been running since end of January.

Is your Fluval 3.0 the marine one or the freshwater one?

 

[twentyleagues]

Is your Fluval 3.0 the marine one or the freshwater one?

Fresh water. Setting is at about 7200k at 100% intensity. I get about 75 par at the sand bed. Caulerpa and dragons breath is growing great. I just harvested the caulerpa today got about a basket ball sized wad out, it was starting to shade out the dragons breath. This may be the perfect light for my size fuge. I just used it because I had it laying around I didnt have great expectations.

 

[goody]

If you're not using the fuge to grow pods or macro for feeding, and simply using it for nutrient export, then going with an ATS over a fuge is more beneficial. I'm running a tunze light AND a Hydra 26HD in my fuge... But it's for pods and growing my own food mostly, nutrient export is not it's primary function.

Curious what settings are you running on your hydra26hd. I have one over my fluval 13.5 that I'm using as a macro display but not getting great growth.

 

[JNalley]

Curious what settings are you running on your hydra26hd. I have one over my fluval 13.5 that I'm using as a macro display but not getting great growth.

Mine's not a display fuge (though, I am currently designing a tank that will have a display fuge) and I just have all channels at 100% and it runs opposite my light schedule on my Kessil.

 

[Treehrtsme]

The consensus to my knowledge is that the kessil h380 destroys any competition Even the a360x fuge as long as it's not to much for your system. I own every kessil fuge light, have tried out the ai and tunze as well as other more basic options. I've also used just about every algae reactor as well.

Geos new reactor switched his reefbrites to a more purple red spectrum, but my Pacific sun pro M grows chaeto very well with a more basic 7500k or something of the sort.

As long as you have enough b nutrients chaeto will grow with light but my concern has always been light spill in sumps causing nuisance algae in unwanted places so I stray towards reactors.