Who Wants Fuge Fixtures!!

[.Marshall]

Question about the ratio of LED's you used, the 5:1 red to royal blue is an odd combo but if it grows macro algae like everyone is saying then I might need to look into this more but my biggest issue is will hanging these over my macro algae chamber in my sump grow a ton of other gunk all over my sump or does the chaeto generally choke out everything else and grow like crazy?

And to continue with this what degree optic would you recommend? 40 or 60?

 

[Reef Breeders]

Question about the ratio of LED's you used, the 5:1 red to royal blue is an odd combo but if it grows macro algae like everyone is saying then I might need to look into this more but my biggest issue is will hanging these over my macro algae chamber in my sump grow a ton of other gunk all over my sump or does the chaeto generally choke out everything else and grow like crazy?

And to continue with this what degree optic would you recommend? 40 or 60?

I prefer 90 degree optics, I used no optics, but the light spill with reds is too much, so the optics are purely to concentrate the light and keep it from growing algae everywhere. I haven't seen any nuisance algae growing in my sump, I guess the chaeto does choke it out a little. It does grow algae very well on my ats, and the flame algae is also doing well. So long as the macr algae is growing, it is removing the phosphates that fuel the nuisance algae growth, same with the ats.

 

[jgraz]

Pretty much, I can make them dimmable if you want, but they really don't need to be, algae adapts pretty easily, with only about a week of not growing before it starts to take off. We have a new strip coming in that will be round $49, I will lyk how we like it.

Any update on this strip?

 

[Reef Breeders]

Any update on this strip?

We made a new thread for them, they werenot as economical as planned, being only half the power of the $90 par38 for $70.