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ShesEasy 04/27/2015 12:20 AM

Lighting a 7.5 gal cube
 
Looking for suggestions on a good light for growing zoas and maybe an LPS in a 1x1x1, 7.5gal cube

Fairly cheap

Not concerned of what type of lighting

ShesEasy 04/28/2015 11:42 AM

Bump

Webmanny 04/28/2015 12:26 PM

I would add one of these DIY kits. They are easy to build, cheap and should be sufficient for the type of corals you want to keep in your tank.

This is a 14 LED kit for around $70 and it includes the heatsink

This one has 20 LEDs, but is not dimmable, I think.

Good luck.

ajespo85 04/28/2015 12:34 PM

I used the cheap (cheaper) reefbreaders value light when I had my 7.5 set up. I upgraded to a 20 long, kept the light. it hung over a bit, but I hung the light from the ceiling and it wasn't noticeable. I had great growth, I had zoas, xenia, octospawn, ricordia, and a bit of gsp. Everything grew nicely.

Icefire 04/28/2015 02:33 PM

There are some PAR38 lights on ebay from 20 to 54 watts..

ShesEasy 04/28/2015 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Webmanny (Post 23705914)
I would add one of these DIY kits. They are easy to build, cheap and should be sufficient for the type of corals you want to keep in your tank.

This is a 14 LED kit for around $70 and it includes the heatsink

This one has 20 LEDs, but is not dimmable, I think.

Good luck.

wow thank you sir, this is right up my alley to as i love to biuld things, i never realized kits existed like this, i always though peoople just made up there own

thanks

Reefkid88 04/28/2015 08:10 PM

A Coral Compulsion Par38 would work,a NanoBox Tide of build your own would all do just fine !!


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