current brand led

[Pixievixi]

I have a full spectrum currant led. It is a 36watt. Can I have sps with this light if I put the corals near the surface? Are these lights just not powerful enough?

 

[LetItReef]

Depends how deep/size of the tank, might need two or have a back up light.

 

[Pixievixi]

It is a 50 gallon bow front

 

[joekool]

36 watts doesn't seem like much how big is the fixture?

I have three rr lights below and my SPS grows well but to answer your question no I don't think that light will work for SPS but I don't know much about it.

A reef radiance fixture 165 fixture would grow SPS just fine in your tank placed center 12 to 14" above tank 40% white channel And 60% blue channel.
Kessil lights are nice too.

 

[ReefLEDLights]

For starters never judge a LED Fixture by watts.

Back in the day we grew corals with a 250 or 400 watt MH... Serious growers laughed at the guys with 175DE MH....Unless it was on a Nano...

Choose a Fixture that will give you 200 PAR on the sand bed before you consider SPS.

Also Flow, Skimmer, Reactor or Three Part is the min.

Keep your animals happy...

Bill

 

[Pixievixi]

I am dyslexic with math, I don't understand how to figure out the lighting logistics. I have a pink birds nest for a try out sps. It is doing great place high in the tank. It is glowing neon green below the pink tentacles. I bought a plating red monti drag since the birds nest in sustaining. I glued it to a midlevel rock in full light. I also supplement coral food. If it starts looking crappy I'm moving it higher.

 

[Reefing Madness]

36w 48" Current LED does not have enough power to sustain SPS corals.

 

[Pixievixi]

I would ideally like to have the strata in the tank as follows:
zoas bottom/sandbed
LPs/midlevel
sps top
I want to have a sps/lps mixed reef