Light Recommendations for 4G Lagoon frag tank

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Want to run a 4G shroom tank (magic carpet, candy crush, and jawbreakers)

Tank Dimensions are 12in x 12in x 6.5in

What light do y'all recommend that won't be too strong for this tank?
 

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Want to run a 4G shroom tank (magic carpet, candy crush, and jawbreakers)

Tank Dimensions are 12in x 12in x 6.5in

What light do y'all recommend that won't be too strong for this tank?

This would be perfect, can handle sps up to 12x12. So you run at 40-60% or whatever works best.


I use it on my pico and it’s handling torch, favia, mushrooms, etc

 
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ty guys for the suggestions ima look into both lights. Again I mainly want to have a bunch of shrooms so doesnt have to be very strong par.
 

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Spectrum important too!
If you want more pics of the pico v2, I have a build thread on it

I couldn’t find much examples of them when I was setting this up, but I’m very happy with them! Built in timer also, I think 8, 10, and 12 hour presets for on / off
 

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Spectrum important too!
If you want more pics of the pico v2, I have a build thread on it

I couldn’t find much examples of them when I was setting this up, but I’m very happy with them! Built in timer also, I think 8, 10, and 12 hour presets for on / off
very nice how deep is ur tank? the tank i want to set up is only 6.5 inch tall so not sure how high this lights par would be.
 

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very nice how deep is ur tank? the tank i want to set up is only 6.5 inch tall so not sure how high this lights par would be.

Tank is 6” tall

Let’s see if this makes sense

——— light
4.5”
——— tank lid
1”
——— water surface
5”
——— bottom of tank
 
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Tank is 6” tall

Let’s see if this makes sense

——— light
4.5”
——— tank lid
1”
——— water surface
5”
——— bottom of tank
makes sense to me what intensity are u running? and do u knw the par by any chance?
 

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I have a par meter but honestly the tank is so small and once you add in rock, there is little room to use the sensor. I should have tested before I did the aquascape, but I went from empty new tank to water, rock and corals in a few hours. Whole tank came out of the box late afternoon, was setup and running with corals by evening and I forgot to take par readings.

There’s two channels on the light,
A - whites / violet / cool blue
B - royal blue

Each one has 10 levels

I run A on 3 or 4, and B on 7

They turn on by themselves, stay on for 12 hours and turn off by themself. Repeat daily automatically
 

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I have a Noopsyche K7 Mini with WiFi control and feel it's perfect for a nano you want to be able to adjust wavelengths, set an automatic timer with your phone, and want something with a little more power than necessary that you can always lower to fit your needs. I use mine for a 5 gallon. If you have any questions feel free to ask. They're not overly expensive either!
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I have a Noopsyche K7 Mini with WiFi control and feel it's perfect for a nano you want to be able to adjust wavelengths, set an automatic timer with your phone, and want something with a little more power than necessary that you can always lower to fit your needs. I use mine for a 5 gallon. If you have any questions feel free to ask. They're not overly expensive either!
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I was just looking into this light actually. Seems like a good fit like you say. I mainly want to put high end shrooms in there. Just due to my main display tank is too high flow for shrooms. They would have to go i nthe very corners of my tank.
 

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