what lighting additonal to the fluval evo 52l

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Hi so I have the fluval evo 52l with its original lighting unit and I was wondering if anyone knows and tried any additional light I can add to this while keeping the original still to give corals that lovely glowing colour look like zoanthids that I see in everybody's tanks. Once the white light is off on this you get to see the nice glowing colours but during day lighting on its quite dull nothing pops at all. So if anyone could recommend an additional light strip or something I could attach to the hood or underwater even but also one that's not that expensive I don't want to spend alot on one.
At the moment I did buy an additional just underwater blue light from amazon to use as well as I because can't use just the blue light on the original light at nights anymore because it's on a timer so it's either all or nothing with this light unit.

Also should zoanthid polyps be generally open all day and night and should you have a blue light on at nights?
 
Hi so I have the fluval evo 52l with its original lighting unit and I was wondering if anyone knows and tried any additional light I can add to this while keeping the original still to give corals that lovely glowing colour look like zoanthids that I see in everybody's tanks. Once the white light is off on this you get to see the nice glowing colours but during day lighting on its quite dull nothing pops at all. So if anyone could recommend an additional light strip or something I could attach to the hood or underwater even but also one that's not that expensive I don't want to spend alot on one.
At the moment I did buy an additional just underwater blue light from amazon to use as well as I because can't use just the blue light on the original light at nights anymore because it's on a timer so it's either all or nothing with this light unit.

Also should zoanthid polyps be generally open all day and night and should you have a blue light on at nights?
I just replaced the stock light with an AI Prime 16 HD and tossed the cover.

You should not run lights more than about 10 hours, the coral need night time..
 
I just replaced the stock light with an AI Prime 16 HD and tossed the cover.

You should not run lights more than about 10 hours, the coral need night time..
do you have a picture please of your tank and the light and what the corals look like during the day.
 
Hi so I have the fluval evo 52l with its original lighting unit and I was wondering if anyone knows and tried any additional light I can add to this while keeping the original still to give corals that lovely glowing colour look like zoanthids that I see in everybody's tanks. Once the white light is off on this you get to see the nice glowing colours but during day lighting on its quite dull nothing pops at all. So if anyone could recommend an additional light strip or something I could attach to the hood or underwater even but also one that's not that expensive I don't want to spend alot on one.
At the moment I did buy an additional just underwater blue light from amazon to use as well as I because can't use just the blue light on the original light at nights anymore because it's on a timer so it's either all or nothing with this light unit.

Also should zoanthid polyps be generally open all day and night and should you have a blue light on at nights?
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I just replaced the stock light with an AI Prime 16 HD and tossed the cover.

You should not run lights more than about 10 hours, the coral need night time..
do u have a link please and pic of your tank during day
 

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