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Old 09-20-2007, 08:30 PM
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i have a light in my tank idk the exact model but it has a brite white light just for fish i think VHO and i have UV lights which i dont use right now. if i were to get coral and fish would i just use both lights togehter or just the UV or VHO by itself?
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Old 09-20-2007, 09:17 PM
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Here is the answer you probably don't want to hear..... It depends. Gosh I heard that alot in college. It depends on what light you have currently; wattage, type of bulb, bulb color temp., depth of tank for light penetration. It also depends on what it is that you want to keep; mushrooms, lps, sps.
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Old 09-21-2007, 06:21 AM
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IDK is the worst thing you could ever say about lights.It implies a definate lack of research.Somewhere on that light is a metal plate with numbers etched into it.you need to find that and let us know EXACTLY what it says on that plate,every word and number.
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