Refugium light
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A lot of people use a clamp light with reflector from Home Depot. $10 bucks and a 100 watt equivalent 6000k twist fluorescent bulb from Home Depot. $3 ish bucks. Any home store should have these and they'll grow macro really well. You can also use a 6500k led bulb the same way, but without the reflector part of the fixture (bulb has it's own reflector and will get too hot with another around it) the led will cost ya a little more but last longer and use less energy if that's a factor for you.
Most people run the light reverse daylight. Meaning at night when the tank light is off. This helps keep PH stable and maintain oxygen in your system. The other option, if using calurpa is to run the fuge light 24/7.
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Most people run the light reverse daylight. Meaning at night when the tank light is off. This helps keep PH stable and maintain oxygen in your system. The other option, if using calurpa is to run the fuge light 24/7.
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Looks like since that screen shot lots of bad reviews. One says the backing in the unit is cardboard? https://www.amazon.com/Yescom-Quad-band-Light-Hydroponic-Orange/dp/B00RAZ7VZK
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I use 2 of these on my current fuge, with mangroves and some macros, they work pretty good
http://www.marinedepot.com/JBJ_Macro...FIRFRL-vi.html
http://www.marinedepot.com/JBJ_Macro...FIRFRL-vi.html
Ah, don't LED's actually draw less watts in total than they are themselves or something I thought? Or like I said, probably going to be a bit too much power. Was hoping to find good leds that produce well on 60w or less, otherwise seems like there's not much more advantage over the right temperature cheapo bulb.
tons of options available on Amazon including the one Balz posted.
I have an algae upflow scrubber planned for my 120 build and was considering this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A0R9PM6/
Or you could just throw this in to keep it simple:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GNWK2XO
Or something like this is relatively cheap and compact:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012C4QJ06/
I have an algae upflow scrubber planned for my 120 build and was considering this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A0R9PM6/
Or you could just throw this in to keep it simple:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GNWK2XO
Or something like this is relatively cheap and compact:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012C4QJ06/
I use a shop lamp reflector from Home Depot with a 6k bulb led equivalent in it and get great growth in my refuge. I was using red dragon and calerpula with great results and left the light on 24/7 to prohibit the calerpula going crazy.
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