What light is best for me?

[fsas89]

I am having a heck of a time finding a light that's within my budget but good for my tank! I have a 36g bow front about 24 deep and 30 wide. zoas, duncan, favite, Long Tent. Anenome, gsp, xenia, and a mushroom what im rocking atm. Im looking into either


Or


or any other suggestions please and thanks!

 

[Bouncingsoul39]

the viparspectra you have pictures is a good option. raise up above the water surface by 12” or so to get a good spread. It’s very strong so you’ll want to start a low intensity percentage and then slowly increase it over several week. It’s a very popular budget led and are proven to grow corals no problem.

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

Those things are terrible to light. The center brace casts a large shadow. I used a reef breeders photon V2+ over one. It was ok. But I thinking I were doing it again I’d use 2 primes or something if the sort to get rid of the center brace shadow.

I have a Chinese black box that you can have for the cost to ship. You will need to supply two PC monitor power cables to get power on it. I have no idea where they went. But they do grow corals.

 

[fsas89]

the viparspectra you have pictures is a good option. raise up above the water surface by 12” or so to get a good spread. It’s very strong so you’ll want to start a low intensity percentage and then slowly increase it over several week. It’s a very popular budget led and are proven to grow corals no problem.

The problem I had with this one was the chains to hang, they were only like 24'' or something...my ceiling is huge, any other mounting options with this you know of?

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

The problem I had with this one was the chains to hang, they were only like 24'' or something...my ceiling is huge, any other mounting options with this you know of?

there are all sorts of shelf brackets and or just a piece of gas pipe mounted to the wall with good anchors.

 

[fsas89]

Those things are terrible to light. The center brace casts a large shadow. I used a reef breeders photon V2+ over one. It was ok. But I thinking I were doing it again I’d use 2 primes or something if the sort to get rid of the center brace shadow.

I have a Chinese black box that you can have for the cost to ship. You will need to supply two PC monitor power cables to get power on it. I have no idea where they went. But they do grow corals.

Thanks! I may take you up on that