will this work?

will this fixture work for softies and zoas ?

its a 12 nano cube

nanocustoms

 

yeah but honestly for zoas and most soft corals the standard light that came with the nano would be enough IMO

 

i traded it for some frags and it didnt have a hood

 

I'm confused...

Did you trade frags for the biocube or the biocube for frags?

 

You tank is about 16"L X 14"W X 15"H

My tank is 14" cubed, I have the 12,000K with 60 degree optics.

My Aquapod is modded to 80 watts of power compacts and houses mainly shrooms, zoas, rics and gsp. The green star polyps have been slowly losing their color and shrinking back for the entire time I have had them. All my other corals have done quite well. I could be wrong, but I assume the gsp was fading due to a lack of light. In the week since moving a ricodea, mushroom and the gsp into the new tank, everything is opening up quite nicely and the gsp especially is more open than I have seen in months.

From a strictly numbers standpoint, if you place this light with 60 degree optics at five inches above the water, you can expect PAR values nine inches below the water at around 400 if centered below the fixture. Star polyps should get at least 300 PAR. I think most zoas will be fine in the same range or even lower, but this varies widely with color. My red zoas have done well and spread enough for fragging under the PC lights in my Aquapod. Mushrooms need even less light. I am having trouble finding any references on how little. Perhaps someone on here knows more.

One thing to keep in mind is the spotlight effect of LEDs. You will get lots of light in the middle of the tank, but it will go down fast as you move to the edges of the tank. On the plus side, there are no bulbs to replace, the heat is generated out the back instead of the front and the light output can be very high for the watts used.

 

He's wondering about lighting for a biocube, so I'm guessing he traded frags for the biocube.

 

I sure hope so. Otherwise I just did a lot of writing for nothing.

 

lol!

 

LOL yea it traded some frags for the nano cube

And thanks for all the help

 

No problem. Just promise to start a build thread once you get going.