Need Opinion New lights or wave maker

[Kplum]

I am scratching my head, I can upgrade my lights to 2 prime HD from an Aquatic life Edge reef light,
Or upgrade to a Wavemaker from a rossmont mover M900.. I am curious what you guys feel is more important.. thanks in advance!

 

[Jonify]

Depends on what your current light is. If you're already pushing 150-250 PAR, leave the lights alone. If your tank is already getting 20X turnover, leave the wavemaker alone. Find something else to spend money on

 

[Kplum]

Depends on what your current light is. If you're already pushing 150-250 PAR, leave the lights alone. If your tank is already getting 20X turnover, leave the wavemaker alone. Find something else to spend money on

I need to measure par, probably at 10x turnover, 80 par if I had to guess..

 

[Nick Steele]

Have more information about your system? Size parameters etc.

 

[Kplum]

Have more information about your system? Size parameters etc.

40 gallon breeder..
I am just at 420gph
One power head..
running the Aquatic life edge reef lights, only keep a green star polyp and a green and orange mushroom.. had them about two weeks now..

Temp is 77
Salinity 1.024
PH 8.2
Everything else is just as good..

 

[Nick Steele]

How much are you looking to spend?

You could do cheap wavemakers such as jebao (I use two sow4 on a 20G) and possibly still get the lights for around $500 to help both situations.

 

[rusty hannon]

I am scratching my head, I can upgrade my lights to 2 prime HD from an Aquatic life Edge reef light,
Or upgrade to a Wavemaker from a rossmont mover M900.. I am curious what you guys feel is more important.. thanks in advance!

I would have to say lights but I must tell you I just put the rossmount in my wife's system and its super cool. You have to have their controler or they won't come on but what you can do with them is amazing.

 

[joseserrano]

You have more par than 80. You should really decide what you want your tank to look like/be in the future, and buy items with that in mind. Not just good enough for right now

 

[BullyBee]

AI primes! Or Kessil’s.

 

[rusty hannon]

AI primes! Or Kessil’s.

Kessil

 

[Kplum]

How much are you looking to spend?

You could do cheap wavemakers such as jebao (I use two sow4 on a 20G) and possibly still get the lights for around $500 to help both situations.

I just want to spend $500 right now.. so, it’s one or the other.. maybe hit the lights and find the Wavemaker later..

You have more par than 80. You should really decide what you want your tank to look like/be in the future, and buy items with that in mind. Not just good enough for right now

And that’s the deal.. I am uncertain..
I have two clowns and 3 frags.. if I go frags, bring the lights, if I go fish bring the Wavemaker..
may just hit the more expensive one for now.. because I am leaning more toward coral, because I have a 40g breeder

 

[joseserrano]

I just want to spend $500 right now.. so, it’s one or the other.. maybe hit the lights and find the Wavemaker later..


And that’s the deal.. I am uncertain..
I have two clowns and 3 frags.. if I go frags, bring the lights, if I go fish bring the Wavemaker..
may just hit the more expensive one for now.. because I am leaning more toward coral, because I have a 40g breeder

Flow is more Coral related than fish

 

[Kplum]

Flow is more Coral related than fish

Good to know.. I am so confused.. lol

 

[Spare time]

A wavemaker should much cheaper. However, avoid the cheap chinese ones if possible. I really like my sicce voyager and it doesn't cost much.

 

[joseserrano]

Lots of YouTube videos. W

 

[un5tab1e]

Lights and flow all depend on what you want your tank to be. Softies and LPS don't need the same high par and high flow as a SPS tank. For 500 if you go used and look at the Classifieds regularly you can replace both.

 

[Nick Steele]

If the tank isn’t bothering you atm I’d say buy wavemakers now and light in a couple months then. The light you have seem to be okay for a lps tank so many you could just add softie and lps corals until you can get the lights. Here’s a link to where they talk about the par output from our current lights and while not the best isn’t terrible either.

AquaticLife LED Marine Light Fixture gets PAR values all kinds of mapped out | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

Whether you want to know the color spread of the LEDs, or the given PAR value at a particular depth, AquaticLife has taken great care to put together a complete data set to their LED Marine Light…

reefbuilders.com

Jebao wavemakers are cheap but imo worth every penny. I’ve had mine for 10 months and not a single issue. Cost me $100 for both sow4’s and I wouldn’t go any different for my tank and budget.

Two ai lights will run you around $480 with mounts. More important for tougher corals and

 

[SMSREEF]

Like others said, I would go with the AI’s and get Jebao OW wavemaker. I don’t even know that I would start with 2 because they are pretty powerful.

 

[jesspal]

You said you wanna spend $500? That should be plenty of money for both items at a good quality level.

 

[Kplum]

This is what I ended up with.. gotta wait a minute for lights.