LED Strips

coraal · Apr 2, 2014

I was wondering if it would be okay to use 1 LED strip on a 10 gal tank and no other form of light.

Would the corals still grow?

Bad Company · Apr 2, 2014

It depends on the coral and the strip. You need 450nm (blue) light for a lot of the photosynthetic corals. There are a numbr of corals the do not need much light however, but those require more frequent feeding.

coraal · Apr 2, 2014

If my tank mainly consisted of Zoas and had some GSP and a 1 or 2 Torch/Frogspawns would one led strip be good enough?

jedimasterben · Apr 2, 2014

What LED strip? Just saying it's an LED strip is like saying yeah, I have a car. You have no idea what kind, what features it has, whether it's right for the application, etc.

coraal · Apr 2, 2014

Thats true... I'm talking about the Current USA TrueLumen Pro LED Striplight. in deep water blue

jedimasterben · Apr 2, 2014

Those are a pretty terrible light to start with, but you don't want one that only has royal blue LEDs. Only fluorescent colors (which are almost all green) will be excited by blue light - all other colors will not show up at all.