Algae turf scrubber--- wave length of light

[Ian]

Ok guru's
I am planning a turg scrubber for my new fish room. What wavelength of light would be best?
I want to use LED's to light it and the tank I am planning on using for this build will be more than large enough.

Yes--- I will start a build thread once things are a little more planned out... right now the fish room is bare 2*4's and drywall only on the exterior of the room.... For some reason the wife thinks bathroom's and bedrooms are more important than fish room's

[H2o2]

Check out reefsupplycanada.com and see the fuge led lite that they just started selling

[monocus]

i use a combination of red and white 1 watt leds-grows the algae really well

[Ian]

thanks..I have a cheap LED here that I will try on one side....it grew algae great in the tank and I will try one of the ones from reefsupply canada on the other side. This scrubber will be large enough that 1 side has enough square inches to take care of my tank. Man the itch to get a tank back up and running is killing me

[nrosdal]

look what arrived on a saturday delivery

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d99/sheetmetal/2013-04-06101818_zps08c6efb3.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d99/sheetmetal/2013-04-06104735_zpsadfb198e.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d99/sheetmetal/2013-04-06104720_zpsc5498212.jpg

[Jakegr]

Just looked at that light, looks like a great deal!

What kind of coverage do you get from it?

[nrosdal]

I just have it temporarily hung at about 7" above fuge and it covers the 17"x14" i would imagine a 20-24"x16-18" at a higher mount height.

[KevinK]

I had 8 CREE red's on mine, 4 on each side of a 2 x 10 inch mesh

did not grow a thing, 5 months long waiting, and waiting.


when I build the unit, I put the LED's right at the screen, about 1 inch off.

I have bin informed that this was way to close, 4 to 6 inches would have bin better,

my problem is, is that I build it all to be 1 inch, and thus removed it after 5 months, as I have to rebuild, so I can have more space between the mesh and led's

I don't know if there is a real wrong color, as some use regular bulbs, some T5 or CF,

I think it is a bit playing around, or gust check what LED's are used on manuf. units.

[hillegom]

6700 kelvin grows algae really well