New light!

[Unitylover]

My light that I ordered arrived today! My ipads horrible cam made it look purple. I’ll use try to get a better pic later on.

 

[cocoReefer]

What is it!?!

 

[Unitylover]

What is it!?!

just a hygger light I found on amazon. Is it able to grow corals?

 

[Geebs19]

just a hygger light I found on amazon. Is it able to grow corals?

Most likely not. Can you post the link to it and we can see for sure.

 

[Unitylover]

Most likely not. Can you post the link to it and we can see for sure.

 

[Unitylover]

I posted the link, dont know if you can see it or not

 

[Unitylover]

ill try again the light is here

 

[Forscythe]

It says that its for freshwater tanks in the description.

 

[Unitylover]

It says that its for freshwater tanks in the description.

huh

 

[Porpoise Hork]

Unfortunately that light probably won't be very good for corals. Almost certainly won't hit the correct spectrum needed.

For nano tanks you can try something like this one if you're on a tight budget. I have used them on nano setups and they work OK for that and will grow softies.

These lights (30w or higher) are not bad either.

 

[Unitylover]

huh

it is rated 9000k tho, more blue than my older 6500K

 

[Unitylover]

In a diff thread people said 6500k could grow zoas, so this should work better

 

[Forscythe]

 

[Forscythe]

In the item description, it says for Freshwater

 

[Forscythe]

 

[Forscythe]

Im not a lighting expert so i could be wrong, but maybe it will work for some corals.

 

[Porpoise Hork]

In a diff thread people said 6500k could grow zoas, so this should work better

You really want closer to 12K to get into the right spectrum. 6500K is daylight and will have a large amount of yellow greens and reds that corals don't use. Yes some less demanding corals could adapt to it, but may not thrive as you would like them to. Plus with running 6500K you will be fighting algae like crazy.

 

[Unitylover]

You really want closer to 12K to get into the right spectrum. 6500K is daylight and will have a large amount of yellow greens and reds that corals don't use.

yes, but it can grow them. (not well) then 9000k should be a tad closer

 

[Unitylover]

prob will grow them, but not the best

 

[Unitylover]

my coral plan is zoas xenias and toadstools. it should grow zoas, but im not sure about xenias and toadstools