Another Lighting Question

[Michael.Brock]

I had a technical 175 gallon reef tank a decade or so ago. I downsized to a freshwater planted tank in a 40g breeder and am now wanting to convert that to a macro-algae live rock setup without the focus on keeping the high light requiring corals.

I have two Beamworks DA 6500k on the tank I am going to use for this. I would also like to keep a bubble tip anemone. Is it worth supplementing the two 6500k lights with a more actinic/10k led strip? Something like

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0899BVX9Q

Overkill? Or should I just take it a step at a time and see how it works out with the two 6500k lights? As usual, I'm probably overthinking things and getting ahead of myself. The tank still has freshwater in it.

 

[Michael.Brock]

As usually happens, once I ask the question I start making progress on my own to answer it

The two Beamworks 6500k each have 84 6500k lights + 16 actinic lights, .5w each for a total of 50W. So two of those gives me 100w of lighting.

The Nicrew light gives me another 36w (and claiming 87 par at 12" in air) of more blue-skewed light (a mix of 72 10k/30 445nm/ 30 460nm / 18 rgb leds).

So a total of 136W of light.

And it occurs to me now that this thread probably would have been better placed in the New Reefer or lighting forums. I apologize for the placement. I don't see an option now to move it.