Enough for a 10g?

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  1. Coastie Reefer

    Coastie Reefer Millepora

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    2 Ecoxotic 453 blue stunners and 1 19w Panorama pro 12,000k

    Thoughts, comments, experience
     
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  2. chelseagrin

    chelseagrin Fire Goby

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    definitely enough! could grow anything.
     
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    Coastie Reefer Millepora

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    cool...just waiting for the little guy to cycle
     
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    thats basically what i have in my 29g. you should definitely go for the blue/magentas
     
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    Well I already have the stunners and pro. I've only ever used the stunners though. The stunners make great actinics. The 12000k module is nice and bright I just can't seem to find par readings on these things anywhere. I'll probably pick up a magenta stunner in the near future along with the new inline dimmer they have.
     
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    Ashevillian Pajama Cardinal

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    well in my 29g i have 1 12000k/blue, 1 blue, and 1 blue/mageneta panorama pro running and my sps is happy and my lps is amazing. i had to move down all my hammer corals and i will probably also have to move down one of my sps it's getting too much for that type of sps

    they are great lights - wish i had a par reader to know for sure though
     
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    I actually just put the 120000k over my 40B and def wish I had the white blue combo....that light is super WHITE. It even washed out the blue and uv lights of my BoostLED Mu 135!!
    I guess I could get a blue magenta module but that would probably be like a nuclear explosion in a 10g.
     
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    lol probably, but the colors they put off are amazing.

    how do you control yours? automatic timers? automatic lighting controller?
     
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    I will have them on digital timers. The inline dimer is only around $15 bucks so I could just dim the white down. For that matter I guess I could get a 3 way splitter, a couple dimmers, and a blue/magenta and dial in the color I like. That's getting kind of crazy for a 10g though!
     
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    Well I'm getting a blue/magenta next week. I also found out I can still return my 12000k pro module. I also just got 2 of the dimmers for $18!! That's better than bogo! I'm wondering if it would be better to just keep the 12000k and dim it or return it and get a 12000k/blue instead. I don't want too much blue, but like I said earlier that 12000k undimmed completely owned the blue and uv's in my boost Mu 135. What do you guys think? Ash if you could get some pics of your tank with just the white/blue and blue/magenta that would be awesome.
     
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