new reefer here in nj

bruno3047 · Feb 21, 2022

Sean Clark said:
With the drastically different lighting, I do not see this as a very fair comparison.
Do you have a photo under simular lighting?

I believe Lucky Corals does use heavy blue lighting. My lighting is more white. I have a four bulb x 80 W fixture over my tank during the day. Front to back it’s aqua blue special, blue plus, coral plus, blue plus. At 7 o’clock the aqua blue special and the coral plus shut off leaving only the blue plus and my blue LEDs that turn on at the same time. The first photo is their website photo.

Jimbhoy13 · Feb 21, 2022

Welcome to R2R and the salty world. Lots of knowledgeable and helpful people here who will support and advise you when needed.

muzikalmatt · Feb 21, 2022

Welcome to Reef2Reef! I'm sure there are plenty of NJ reefers on the forums here that can help you out!

mingc · Feb 21, 2022

thanks for all !!! i end up buying few frags from pacific aquayium this evening after i leaving office, price is fair since one of my friend works there, only thing was these frags that i picked today was very colorful in their tanks, but they dont looks as good as in the store, i think was cuz the blue light! they keep blue only but i keep 50% of white. quetion, do i need to keep only blue on my tank in order to see better colors in corals? does these shofy corals needs some white light? thanks guys!!!

Rams · Feb 21, 2022

mingc said:
hi all reefers, i just set up a 75 gallons reef tank months ago, local fish store checked my water and said that everything were good, so i can start putting fish and corals, i want to spend about 300 on corals, just want to know if any reefer around nj that can show me witch store around jersey city that has decent price. thanks in advence! ming

I am also from NJ.Welcome to R2R..If you are in jersey city the best to go is @BYU .You will be double happy buying corals from him.He is from LI and worth the drive.

mingc · Feb 22, 2022

Rams said:
I am also from NJ.Welcome to R2R..If you are in jersey city the best to go is @BYU .You will be double happy buying corals from him.He is from LI and worth the drive.

Thank you rams! i will pm BYU to see what he got for me.

Rams · Feb 22, 2022

mingc said:
Thank you rams! i will pm BYU to see what he got for me.

Goodluck

Manny’s Reef · Feb 22, 2022

Greetings and welcome to R2R. Glad to have you here.

bruno3047 · Feb 22, 2022

mingc said:
thanks for all !!! i end up buying few frags from pacific aquayium this evening after i leaving office, price is fair since one of my friend works there, only thing was these frags that i picked today was very colorful in their tanks, but they dont looks as good as in the store, i think was cuz the blue light! they keep blue only but i keep 50% of white. quetion, do i need to keep only blue on my tank in order to see better colors in corals? does these shofy corals needs some white light? thanks guys!!!

What I do, as well as many other reefers, is I run my blue lights and my white lights during the day, and then run only blue lights in the evening when I have the most opportunity to enjoy my tank. In my estimation, the white light is essential for the coral’s health. Others may disagree based on their experience. I’m speaking from my experience. Everything is, of course, electronically timed.

mingc · Feb 22, 2022

bruno3047 said:
What I do, as well as many other reefers, is I run my blue lights and my white lights during the day, and then run only blue lights in the evening when I have the most opportunity to enjoy my tank. In my estimation, the white light is essential for the coral’s health. Others may disagree based on their experience. I’m speaking from my experience. Everything is, of course, electronically timed.

thanks for reply bruno! just curiors how all corals frags in local fish store can keep helthy under their blue light only system, maybe they have been sold before they are showing side-effect due to lack of daylight?