Lighting for refugium

corrosionjerry · #1 02-23-2011, 02:03 PM

to grow Cheato / should I being using something with 6700 bulbs or 10000?

FishyFishy! · #2 02-23-2011, 04:36 PM

6700 will grow it way better in my experiences. The best lighting I have found are 100W "cool white" bulbs (coil style) - for some reason these grow this stuff like crazy

hillegom · #3 02-23-2011, 06:37 PM

my macro algae grow like crazy under HD phillips daylight 6500K compact flourescents.
I use the curly ones because the light fixture is horizontal

corrosionjerry · #4 02-23-2011, 10:29 PM

Thanks for the tips guys...

mark · #5 02-23-2011, 11:40 PM

find even the 6500k 23W spiral CF works good for chaeto