montipora under 28 gallon quad stock lighting

[chills1026]

currently im in the process of setting up my 28 gallon cf quad nano-cube tank. right now im waiting for it to cycle. eventually im looking to put montipora in it of the plating variety. i know this question has come up before,but i was wondering if the stock lighting would be enough if placed up high in the tank it consists of 105 watts of pc lighting 2 bulbs 10k and 2 bulbs 7500k actinic. i really like the plating montipora species so i hope it can work otherwse i will have to live vicariously through those who do have them

[Squared]

probably

 

yes

[altolamprologus]

That's more than enough light. I keep half a dozen montis under 72 watts of PC light and they grow like weeds

 

 

BTW 7500k is not actinic. Perhaps you meant 15000k?

[chills1026]

it could be the description says 7500 but coud be mislabeled

[altolamprologus]

it could be the description says 7500 but coud be mislabeled

And it's labeled as actinic? Usually actinic is 20k or higher. 7500 is going to look pretty yellow

[chills1026]

that's what I thought and it's pretty blue,yet it's labeled as 2 10k and 2 7500 k actinic maybe someone who has the same tank can chime in. I have no doubts you are right but that's how it's labeled. Me thinks jbj may have had a typo error in their description

[Chrisl1976]

Assuming you are talking about JBJ nano cube CF version?

Yeah, the specs sound weird: 105 watt 10,000°K/7,100°K compact fluorescent lighting

 

They do work ok. My tri-color acro, orange montipora digitalis, and plate montipora are all growing.

[chills1026]

yep thats the one,sounds encouraging that your montipora is growing under it,especially the plating variety