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I recently started the saltwater hobby and have been enjoying every minute of it. The tank I have (Marineland Contour Glass Aquarium 5 gal) is a great tank so far but I have noticed that the LEDs seem to be underpowered for coral(9 white 6 blue). I have a hammer coral that extended fully when first introduced to the tank, I assume this was because it was acclimating to the lower light from the LFS display tank. Now after having it for a few weeks it has seemed to be receding slowly but noticeably. The parameters are in check, I recently started to spot feed once a week but I cant help but think its the lights fault. The flow looks like a "breeze" and I recently moved it to an even lower flow area to see if it helps.

 

Any advice on a lighting setup for this tank? I am willing to throw down some money, especially if I can catch a black friday deal. Ill chalk the cost up to ignorance of a beginner.

 

I intend to keep some frogspawn, zoas, etc beginner stuff and possibly move onto other beginner corals (ricordia, mushrooms, palys) in the near future.

 

Edit: Also I have some flow generated from the filter but should I invest in a cheap hydor powerhead for flow? It seems to be generating enough to cause the hammer coral to sway if I point it straight at it.

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Is 225 bucks the lower end of the lighting price range? I am all for making everything super happy but for that price can I get a set of current orbit usa lighting and still have almost 100 dollars left over. Then again I am inexperienced though, I cant tell the quality of LED kits yet.

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Spiderguardnano

Is 225 bucks the lower end of the lighting price range? I am all for making everything super happy but for that price can I get a set of current orbit usa lighting and still have almost 100 dollars left over. Then again I am inexperienced though, I cant tell the quality of LED kits yet.

nanobox led will blow the current orbit out of the water

 

brand new i think the nanobox are around 300 you can check out my thread linked in my profile i was running a nanobox

 

if not a used kessil 150 will work also get the ocean blue model

 

dont go cheap on lights!

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Is 225 bucks the lower end of the lighting price range? I am all for making everything super happy but for that price can I get a set of current orbit usa lighting and still have almost 100 dollars left over. Then again I am inexperienced though, I cant tell the quality of LED kits yet.

 

Look through all of the past Nano Reef Tank Of The Month systems.

 

Check out what kind of lighting they used.

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Honestly, $225 is on the cheaper side for decent LEDs, I agree with farkwar, check out what some other folks are using, see which setups look good to you and go from there. You could also pick up a pretty decent t5-H.O. set up fairly cheap but bulbs need to be replaced every 8 months or so. Good luck.

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