Juwel lighting advice

[TheXpander]

Hi all,

My Juwel Trigon 190 has now been up and running since October, first fish added in December (2 common clowns) with 5 Trochus snails, 4 red legged hermits and a Camel shrimp.

This was only meant to be FOWLR however I’m curious to know if I could add a few low maintenance corals with the set up as is, ie the Juwel enclosed hood and lighting Multilix LED (1 x Juwel LED Marine 14w 590mm and 1x 11W 590mm blue LED)?

I know very little about lighting or corals, any help would be much appreciated!

Juwel Trigon 190
Tetratec EX1200 plus canister
Jecod SOW 8 wavemaker
Live rock

 

[Ron Reefman]

I guess I don't understand exactly what you have for lighting this tank?

You said, "...Multilix LED (1 x Juwel LED Marine 14w 590mm and 1x 11W 590mm blue LED)"

Is this the only light? It can't be just 2 leds of 14w and 11w power? How about a photo of the fixture.

You could try buying an inexpensive easy coral and give it a try. Some reefers give away Green Star Polyps, Xenia, Kenya Tree Coral because it can grow like a weed. Buy a $5 or $10 clump and give it a try.

 

[TheXpander]

I guess I don't understand exactly what you have for lighting this tank?

You said, "...Multilix LED (1 x Juwel LED Marine 14w 590mm and 1x 11W 590mm blue LED)"

Is this the only light? It can't be just 2 leds of 14w and 11w power? How about a photo of the fixture.

You could try buying an inexpensive easy coral and give it a try. Some reefers give away Green Star Polyps, Xenia, Kenya Tree Coral because it can grow like a weed. Buy a $5 or $10 clump and give it a try.

Hey Ron, thanks for getting back to me!
I’ve attached specs and pics below.

 

[Ron Reefman]

Your tank is 60cm (2 feet) deep?

Then your led fixture is seriously under powered for trying to keep coral. A good led fixture for that depth of tank would be 100 watts or more. Like a Mars Aqua fixture with 55 3 watt leds run at 1.8 watts each = 99 watts.

If this tank had been 12" deep, I'd have said some slim possibility.

 

[TheXpander]

Your tank is 60cm (2 feet) deep?

Then your led fixture is seriously under powered for trying to keep coral. A good led fixture for that depth of tank would be 100 watts or more. Like a Mars Aqua fixture with 55 3 watt leds run at 1.8 watts each = 99 watts.

If this tank had been 12" deep, I'd have said some slim possibility.

Thank you this is the advice I was looking for!

 

[Ron Reefman]

Glad to help.

I just noticed you are in Scotland! I spent a couple of wet and rainy days there back in 1972 on a Triumph 650 Tiger. I had just spent the week at the TT Races on the Ilse of Man and then wanted to tour Scotland before having the bike shipped home to the US. The people were wonderful and the countryside is beautiful (even in the rain while on a motorcycle)!

 

[TheXpander]

Glad to help.

I just noticed you are in Scotland! I spent a couple of wet and rainy days there back in 1972 on a Triumph 650 Tiger. I had just spent the week at the TT Races on the Ilse of Man and then wanted to tour Scotland before having the bike shipped home to the US. The people were wonderful and the countryside is beautiful (even in the rain while on a motorcycle)!

Wow sounds like an epic trip! Yeah it’s currently around -1 here....