well first off welcome to Talkingreef, and to the hobby.
and second, its great to see such planning going into your system, kudos to you..
Refugium lighting is pretty simple. you really put most any type of light on it you want. many people that its easiest and cheapest to use standard NO (normal output) floresent lights, for example, i use a standard 40W NO light over mine. others choose something like a flood light and hand that over there
refugium. you dont need to spends lots of money on this.
now if you want to get technical, the
macro algae in the
fuge will grow best under 5500K or 6500K lighting, or in other words, regular plant growing bulbs. most of the regular NO bulbs or flood light bulbs will be very close to this spectrum so thats why they are used so much.
let me know if you have any questions, and please feel free to start a tank journal in the
Tank Journal section. We all love to see how people put together there new systems..
