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02-27-2007, 01:56 PM
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| Appropriate Reef Lighting?? I recently set-up a 100gallon saltwater aquarium. I would like to add some soft corals and a few hard corals. I want to build a wall up the side of the tank, at the same time I need to know a cheap way of providing them with the appropriate lighing. A buddy of mine recomended placing a 175 watt MH over the wall and stick to flourescent lighting otherwise. Any Ideas? :confused:  |
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02-27-2007, 02:06 PM
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 What are your tank dimensions? |
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02-27-2007, 02:10 PM
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| 60L*18W*20H in |
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02-27-2007, 02:13 PM
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| 2 or 3 MH lamps should be great for you, 175W is fine. However 250w is great for light hungry SPS, I have dual 250w running on my 75 gallon and I am getting good sps growth. |
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02-27-2007, 02:18 PM
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| Well I will be downgrading to a 75 gal. in may so I'll try 1 250watt. Thanks! And should i use any other lighting other than the MH or a few Actinic bulbs? |
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02-27-2007, 03:54 PM
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| a few actnic bulbs wouldn't hurt  |
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02-28-2007, 11:51 PM
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| I'm at that same junction myself, but I've already purchased mine so I may be SOL for the time being if I didn't make a good call. I've got a 75g (48x20x18 approx) I'm FOWLR now but want to go reef soon. I've got 2x 65w 12,000k daylights, 2x65w 03 actinic and 4 moonlight LED's. These are CF lights. Is this enough? Also, my schedule is moonlights on all the time...Actinics on for 2 hours then the daylights kick on for 8 hours, after the daylights go off I have the actinics on for 2 more hours. I'm trying to simulate dawn, day, dusk thing. What do you think? Thanks as always! Mattie Last edited by MattieFingaz; 02-28-2007 at 11:53 PM. |
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