What light do you use in refugium?

[Olivier]

I went to home Depot today and see that they sell some 6500K light bulb. I am thinking of get the light set for my refugium. What do you think? Should I or Should I not? What light do you use in your refugium?
any advice is greatly consider
Olivier

 

[MikeNapoli]

Alot of the companys that make sumps include the light. The light they include is usually compact flourecents. Any light is good for macro algae.

You can try this

 

[Patriot76]

what size is your fuge? when i set up my tank I had originally planned on having a 55g sump/fuge under the tank. the middle 24' was to be the fuge, but i just couldnt get it to the way i wanted so i decided to use my old 55g as a fuge and keep the other 55g under teh tank as a sump. so i am using my old 4x65w PC fixture for lighting. however, i had bought a 24' PC fixture that I had intended to use for my original sump/fuge concept, but is now sitting my basement (never been used). So if your fuge is 24' i can sell it to you for a decent price.

24 '65w Daylight 10,000°K and 65w Actinic square pin bulbs. Also has a Lunar LED.

 

[sgarron]

Check this one out. It's what I use and chaeto grows very well.

http://www.melevsreef.com/fuge_bulb.html

 

[RichT]

I've used this one for a couple years now.

Fixture and replacement bulbs are available at homedepot, reasonably priced, grows cheto and coralline.

 

[Patriot76]

i have LR in my fuge along with grape caulerpa, how do you think my LR would react to this kind of lighting? right now i am using the fixture i had used on my previous tank. there are 2x65w 10k PC bulbs that run from 8am-8pm and 2x65 50/50 PC's that run 24x7. The macro algae grows like crazy and the coraline algae is growing faster in my fuge than in my display. but i am sure the long term cost of running the bulbs suggested above would be much cheaper. along with the obvious lower cost of bulb replacement! since i just purchased all 4 of these bulbs about two months ago, i will continue to use them for the next 8-10 months then consider going in a different direction. if i had been aware of this cheaper alternative a couple of months ago i probably would not have spent the money on new PC's bulbs.

 

[Brian]

I use regular old flourescent tubes in my fuge. They are called "Natural Sunshine" and I get them @ Home Depot. They work GREAT and are CHEAP! which is always nice.

 

[RichT]

The one I posted is really a screw in version power compact. Another thing I like about that one is you can pop the lens off real easy for cleaning. I don't see why it would have any adverse effect on the LR. It's basically 500W 6500K output.

 

[rgarofalo]

check the steals and deals I have a 24" for free

 

[depitch039]

I am using a 23Watt(90watt equivalent) Fluorescent floodlight bulb from home depot with a reptile bulb stand,the base fits under the fuge.

It works well and is cheap to operate.

HTH

Doug

 

[Olivier]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions and responsive replies. I am heading to Home Depot right now to check out the flood light.
This is going to be great.
Olivier

 

[mr_X]

i've used this for a couple years and it worked great(6500k, 23 watt)-

but now i sometimes toss some xenia overgrowth in the refugium and so i use this(6500k, 125 watt)-
(i've gotten the same amount of algae growth since)