Led Grow Light for Refugium?

To be honest, your algae will grow with any light you provide.
I was using the eBay UFO light for few months and it worked awesome but I was to the point that I need to trim my chaeto almost every week, so changed to AI prime HD with 6500k color. but even the prime on low light its growing my chaeto like weed!
feel free to choose any, there is no best light, they all will do the job!
 
ebay has 53W round lights for $13 or so.

FWIW I got a light very similar to the oune you linked and it worked perfectly over my refugium. But then the refugium part of the sump is smaller than a 10g and the light was an almost exact fit. Even our local aquarium maintenance team was impressed with the light.

my .02
 
Im glad you asked your question, ive been looking at the ebay ufo light. I saw someone posted about how well it works, so we both got great info from your post!
 
I have the zetlight 36 inch 6800 mcraven with apex over my refugeum. It has liverock sand and eventually ill ad frags to grow out. I have a big chunk of cheato in there too. Im thinking about moving the cheato to a different chamber though and using one of those grow lights i feed my tank one frozen cube of misis 2 times a day and a pinch of marine flake once a day. I dont have a lot in fish so theres always leftover food. Crabs shrinp ect dont get it all. Between my skimmer and cheato i am at 0 to almost 0 like you.
 

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