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04-05-2008, 04:17 PM
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#11 (permalink)
| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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You will definatly need more Lighting for an anemone. I had kept one under 260 watts of PC lighting and it was never happy. Now, uner 500 watts of MH lighting in a 55gal, its happy 
And dont rush yourself.....wait, wait, read, and wait somemore  _________  | 
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04-05-2008, 06:00 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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I kept mine under 48 watts of pc.. It did wonderful, ate well and got very large......
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 australian black perc clown ,1 porcelain crab, , 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, neon grn bali slimer acro, purple acro, millipora's, feather duster, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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04-05-2008, 06:33 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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What size tank BaugherB? I noticed that PC's are good, but when placed on tank over a certain hieght, they just dont cut it  | |
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04-05-2008, 06:34 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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Very very true...... Old timers was kicking in.. oooops forgot to add that..LOL.... It was over my 12 gallon nano dx....... Thanks for helping me out aquadude...... | |
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04-05-2008, 06:39 PM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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Lol, much better than 260 watts over 55 XD | |
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04-05-2008, 06:45 PM
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#16 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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Yep, Yep... | |
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04-06-2008, 04:13 AM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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ok guys so what would you recommend the minimum wattage, looks like i'm gonna have to replace my whole lighting strip,,,,bummer,,,,,T5'S? | |
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04-06-2008, 04:54 AM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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this is preference!! Some like Mh some like T5 - T5 are in general cheaper to run and purchase and offer a good colour and even light - but you have be creative with placement of reef and you have to get 2 minimum - for an anemone 4 shouls suffice but that would depend on the depth of tank.
Mh are more expensive to buy abd ourchase and heat the water in your tank, but with Mh you can get anything and place it anywhere.
As i said personal preference - but im no light expert _________ You will never know whats in my tank as i can only type 15 words  | 
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04-06-2008, 05:03 AM
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#19 (permalink)
| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Midlands,UK
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I prefer T5 because of the reasons you stated, tank depth is exactly 19"/49cm this is from top of substrate to water fill level, so what wattage t5 am i looking at anybody?
Tank measures
100x40x50cm
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04-06-2008, 06:14 AM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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You could get two 175 watt halides, or at least 2 T5's (2 t5s for softies 3-4 for LPS/SPS for a 55gal. <at least 3 for anemone (depends on placement) | |
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