I’m the process of setting up a 125 gallon tank that is like to fill with various soft corals like GSP, mushrooms, frogspawn ECT.
I bought a 48” Fluval Marine kinda on a whim at my LFS because I couldn’t find many 6’ LEDs I was thinking that most of my rock work is within 4’ and I knew that softies have low light requirements
Im starting to think I may need more light though my tank is almost 2’ deep and my glass top gets slightly opaque plus the condensation blocks some light this review https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fluval-marine-reef-3-0-review.487421/ (bigs thanks to the OP) puts the par at 18” at only 55
I saw some 72” ReefBright LED strips at another LFS and I was thinking of adding one blue only Lumi Light strip either standard or PRO behind my Fluval or maybe selling mine and using one 50/50 XHO
So am I way over thinking this and about to waste money? Just get some coral and wait to see if they grow
Or do you guys think I should go ahead and add some more PAR
Thanks
The light isn’t cranked all the way up in this photo but just to give an idea on where my corals might be
I bought a 48” Fluval Marine kinda on a whim at my LFS because I couldn’t find many 6’ LEDs I was thinking that most of my rock work is within 4’ and I knew that softies have low light requirements
Im starting to think I may need more light though my tank is almost 2’ deep and my glass top gets slightly opaque plus the condensation blocks some light this review https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fluval-marine-reef-3-0-review.487421/ (bigs thanks to the OP) puts the par at 18” at only 55
I saw some 72” ReefBright LED strips at another LFS and I was thinking of adding one blue only Lumi Light strip either standard or PRO behind my Fluval or maybe selling mine and using one 50/50 XHO
So am I way over thinking this and about to waste money? Just get some coral and wait to see if they grow
Or do you guys think I should go ahead and add some more PAR
Thanks
The light isn’t cranked all the way up in this photo but just to give an idea on where my corals might be