Lighting question

[Craigj247]

I have a 34L nano tank and it has been running with the stock 12V LEDs which have 22 day and 10 blue actinic lights... I recently purchased some live rock and would like to get in to corals.

However I don't think this lighting would be good enough to have corals... I did look at an LED 10W flood light.. Would this be better for my tank to have corals in... If so should I go with the 10W LED or the 20W LED for my set up?

 

[carey]

I wouldn't go with a spotlight, the spectrum of light won't be good for corals.

There are some clip on led fixtures that might work for you. Something like this

Ecoxotic EcoPico LED Arm Light Fixture w/ 12K White & 453nm Blue Strip

 

[Craigj247]

The problem I have Carey is that there are no marine aquarium retailers over here in Sri Lanka and only a hand full if people are in to the marine aquarium hobby... So whatever the fixture I have to do it myself... Here is pic of my tank... Can you judge the lighting from a pic?



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[carey]

Have you considered making your own led fixture? You might have better luck finding the led;s and the drivers overseas. Do you have ebay over seas? Some great things on ebay that might do the trick.

 

[Craigj247]

I know I got my wave maker etc from eBay but if it is too big then there is an issue with customs. I have tried everything... I don't want to have any hard corals... Just corals that need moderate lights like some mushrooms, torch coral and maybe a couple of polyps that survive in moderate light... Dinuki think my lights are not enough for them to survive...

 

[Craigj247]

*do you think

 

[carey]

Well the only way is ti try some. I would get some mushrooms and maybe a frag of zooanthids and see what happens. The mushrooms should do ok under the lights, not so sure about LPS though.

 

[Craigj247]

Yeah guess will start with a mushroom and see how things go... I originally was looking at frogspawn from LPS but when I researched in to it learned that the lighting needs are moderate to intense which is why I don't want to try it out and then decided on a torch since it seems to be moderate lighting all the way... Do hard to do this hobby over here... Would you believe that I have 5 aquariums within walking distance of my house and non of them knew what a wavemaker was... I had to bye mine for my nano off eBay.

Ok Carey thank you so much for the advise will start with a blue mushroom frag and keep you updated with some pictures too.