moon light?

[baita83]

I will try to give as much info as I can. Basically I have a 14 gallon biocube with 24w pc 10,000k 24w pc actinic and 2 .5w moonlights. I have noticed that the corals that recieve the 24 hour moonlight are growing faster and have much brighter colors then even ones of the same colony that are just outside the dirrect beam of light. I am planning on trying an Complete LED set up in the tank. Although I don't know when I will be able to its hard to convince my girlfriend that $200 lights will make a difference. My plan is to use 12 cree XR-E Q5 white lights and 6 Royal Blue XR-E lights with 1000mah buckpacks and a 12w 5amp power supply. I am going to wire it all in the hood. Now to my question how many of the blue lights should i leave on 24 hours a day I would like to have good tank coverage but right now I have 1w total moon light my plan is to arrange the lights like this

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I would like to be able to leave the the 4 corners on for good coverage but thats 4w of moonlight over a 14g is this too much?or could i even go all 6w? just looking for opinions thank you

 

[baita83]

to add some more info and ideas...I am keeping a chalice some zoanthids and a frogspawn right now I would like to be able to keep some sps mainley montipora species. I have only had soft coral tanks a long time ago before this one . I have read on the chalice corals that they dont like too much light and don't want to bleach it out .when i got it it was under a 250w MH at the lfs and within a week under my pc bulbs its color increased an unbelievable amount. I was just looking on youtube and saw a biocube 14 with 5 blue and 6 white leds I would prefer to stay more on the white side as I like the way it looks but do you think I could get away with 8 white and 4 blue for a total of 12w of leds or should I go for the 18w . also acording to the youtube video it says his par rating is in between a 75w and 150w MH bulb wich should be more then enough for a 14 gallon.if I do go with the 12 w set up it would be arranged

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any opinions or examples of what has worked or not worked for others would be great if not I will post my success or failures after I try it