Fluval Sea Pro Marine & Reef LED 2.0

[Fletch386]

I have been without a reef tank for awhile but I want to get back in. Has anyone used the Fluval Sea Pro for their reef tank? What are your thoughts? I'm sure there are better options, but are there better options for the same cost?

I have a deep 110 gallon tank, 48" wide.

Thank you in advance!

Fletch

[ReefCowboy]

Fluval lights are not optimal, you will be able to keep low light corals in your tank, such as mushrooms and softies.
Try to save a bit more and invest in something better that you can keep longer term for other corals you might want down the line...

[Fletch386]

Thank you. I will take it back. Any thoughts on what type of lighting I should invest in? Money is an issue so I would need something that does more for less.

[NS Mike D]

Permit me to use this thread to expand on the Fuval lights and by using my tank as an example to help me better understand my lighting - and hopefully provide useful information for others.


I have a 29 gal basic tank 30" x 12" x 18" with the Fluvial 24" Sea Pro 2.0 and wifi module.
The tank is 15 months old.

Fluval lists the lights at 25K and provides the following PAR/LUX information with a 120 degree dispersement:


Depth/Par/LUX

3" / 376 / 16290
6" / 222 / 8750
12" / 90 / 3620
18" / 47 / 1940

Like most newbies, I initially stocked my tank with low light demanding corals like softties, ricordias, zoas, xenia, frogspawn etc with decent success. Two months ago I added an acan on the sand bed as three acros atop the rocks (about 4"-6" inches from the lights. They appear to be doing well, polyp extensions and no apparent loss of color.

I run the lights with ramp up 8am - 10am to 75%, noon - 4pm 100%, ramp down to off by 6pm. The blue as the same except they ramp down to 10pm so I can view the tank in the evening.

In a number of threads, I read that these PAR values at the top of the tank are fine for scans, and then other threads call for PAR values in excess of 1000.

IS 270-300 PAR insufficient for the acroporas, do they really need 1000+ PAR? Would gradually increasing the full light period be better?


(note: I dose reef energy daily, phyto and zooplankton weekly to encourage coral feeding and my NO3 is 0.25 (was as high a 2) and PO4 is 0.08 ppm)