ChaetoMax Refugium LED Light (9 Watt)

This is a great light for the refugium. I have the IM Nuvo 20g all in one tank. I decided to use the 2nd chamber as my refugium. I purchased an IM Media Caddy and took out one of the shelf’s. Ball of chaeto in the larger compartment and some marine bio sphere in the lower shelf.This light is perfect! The perfect size, amount of brightness. I mounted it directly to the back of my AIO compartment. Note: some IM tanks have a black vinyl sticker on the entire back of the AIO compartment. Using a straight edge and a box cutter I had to LIGHTLY score the section of vinyl to remove so the light could penetrate into the accessories compartment. Took about 3 mins to do. (IM should really include something about this step in the directions)Like other have said, no timer but I use Samsung SmartThings home automation system so just plugged this light into one of my controlled outlets and set an automation to turn on at 1800 and off at 0600. Piece of cake.

effective and versatile

I have a Red Sea Reefer 350 and install was pretty simple. It is not the sturdiest mounting light I have ever installed, but I think it is adequate. I run it from 8pm until 8am and it seems to be growing chaeto pretty well. Good value, would buy again.

Works good. I have an IM 150g Nuvo INT and I bought the single 9 wat and the bracket that comes with the sump is built for the 18 watt but it works. Sticks on with adhesive that comes with the light. Light also comes with a mount but I use the bracket, works great so far and the chaeto and red ogo is already grow quite nicely.

Great little refugium light. I have it plugged into my apex to keep it on a top er. I throw out cheato every two weeks now,

I ordered this light it November and it just stopped working

Tiny but grows cheato well! I stuck it on the outside glass on my new AIO tank in the refugium section. So far, the cheato is growing well.Update 11/25/19 the new tank is 4 months cycling and the cheato is growing well, starting to take off and subdue the algae that is common in new tanks.Im so happy with it I bought another for the tank in photo #2 my 32g aio mixed reef.

I wasn't sure what to expect with this product, but I knew from helpful reviews that it would stick nicely to the outside of the in-tank refugium on my Coralife Biocube 32. I set the light on a 10 hour timer (on at night) and dropped a baseball-sized clump of chaeto in the middle chamber of the 'fuge. Within three weeks I had to remove about three baseballs worth of densely packed chaeto because the chamber was overcrowded. I eventually reduced the light duration to 8 hours because the growth was too intense and I hated throwing away all that good chaeto. 6 months later the light and chaeto are going strong.