Martin in China Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I just bought a MAXSPECT G4 (Glaive) -M40 for my (yet to build) 20 Gallon tank. The M40 is 25 Watt (LED), but now I was reading that a tank (zoa's and soft corals only) would need 4W/ Gallon..... ....will it still be fine? LED is still confusing to me. Link to comment
Horerczy Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Watts gallon means nothing with leds. Seeing as you're looking at low light stuff it well probably work fine. Link to comment
Martin in China Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 I know that the only way to measure light (for fish tank use) is PAR...but I'm happy to hear that it could work on my low light corals. Link to comment
Horerczy Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I remember watching a video where a maxpect sales rep basically said a low cost controllable light for lower light corals was the point of the glaive. Link to comment
Martin in China Posted March 22, 2015 Author Share Posted March 22, 2015 I talked to the sales (online) here and he didn't mind changing the lights for a Razor Nano...so I did...now I can still go with lower light, but if in the future I would like some more PAR, I could. Now I am trying to get a good light setting for my tank... Would something like this be OK? Is 90% to much and how about the lighting period? Channel A are the whites and Channel B are the blues. Link to comment
zooman72 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Might want to lower your peak to 60% and monitor your corals' response... Link to comment
Martin in China Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 How about this? 7:00 A. 0% B. 0%11:00 A. 15% B. 20%13:00 A. 40% B. 50%18:00 A. 40% B. 50%21:30 A. 0% B. 10% (this is just to give me a bit of moonlight effect at the end of the day, I could also go for 5%)23:00 A. 0% B. 0% Link to comment
zooman72 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 How about this? 7:00 A. 0% B. 0% 11:00 A. 15% B. 20% 13:00 A. 40% B. 50% 18:00 A. 40% B. 50% 21:30 A. 0% B. 10% (this is just to give me a bit of moonlight effect at the end of the day, I could also go for 5%) 23:00 A. 0% B. 0% Looks good enough to start - just adjust as needed (i.e. corals reaching to or shrinking from light, bleaching or browning, etc.), and good luck... Link to comment
Martin in China Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 thanks Zooman72 Link to comment
zooman72 Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 thanks Zooman72 You are welcome... Link to comment
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