Main Menu
| |
Get on the Map!
| |
Forum Menu
| | 
03-02-2005, 07:44 AM
|
#1 (permalink)
| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida Age: 34
Posts: 293
Karma: 153
  
|  Ideas on vho an Mh setup
My B-Day is coming up perfect time to get the wife to splurge on some new lights. I have a wooden canopy on the tank and have an area that I can fit some lights. It is 70"L x 15" W x 5"  the lid is on a piano hinge but I want to replace it so it raises straight up like its just elevated over the tank rather than like a door. If that makes any sense. I have read all these treads on VHO, MH, PC, and T5, I definately want to do 4 VHO bulbs and Three MH bulbs. I am worried about heat fire and price? trying to do it all for $300.00 is it possible? I want it to look something like this. Pics of the canopy are in the gallery  _________ "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing"
Albert Einstein
125 G reef ready. 3 175W MH XM 15K bulbs two VHO 10000k, Berlin turbo skimmer, 18W turbo twist UV, DIY Refugium and sump, Little Giant 3-MDQX-SC, 3 MAXIJET 1200 with mod kit and 1 900gph. 1/3 horse chiller, I have a false yellow, damsel, percula clown, Mushrooms and a bubble tip anenome and Live Rock | 
|  | | Reef Links |  | |
03-02-2005, 07:45 AM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida Age: 34
Posts: 293
Karma: 153
| Re: Ideas on vho an Mh setup
| |
| | |
03-02-2005, 08:11 AM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
Posts: 999
  | Re: Ideas on vho an Mh setup
Now i dont know much about VHO but i do have some MH. Heres what me and a friend bought click me the price is hard to beat for a MH retrofit kit... just plug it in and there you go.
Marc. _________ 
20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
| | |
03-02-2005, 09:07 AM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
Posts: 7,484
   | Re: Ideas on vho an Mh setup
Wow.. That's a good price Marc. Although it is refurbished.
Hellolights.com has some good DIY stuff: http://www.hellolights.com/4laaromo4lvb.html | |
| | |
03-02-2005, 10:29 AM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Illinois Age: 30
Posts: 390
Karma: 87
| Re: Ideas on vho an Mh setup
I could be wrong, but isn't HPS different from MH. I mean aren't the ballasts different, and aren't the bulbs the wrong spectrum.
just curious.
_________
90 gallon reef, mag 1800 main return pump, 10 gallon refugium + 10 gallon sump, CPR overflows, ASM G-1 skimmer, icecap 660 vho 440 watts. 130#LR and 60#LS. Corals: Finger Leather, Fat Finger Leather, Toadstool, flower pot sps coral, hairy mushrooms. Fish: Yellow tang, Bi-color angel, pecula clowns, royal gramma, coral beauty angel, yellow tail damsel, blue damsel, Sergeant Major Damsel. Misc. hermit crabs, snails, flame scallop, Xenia | |
| | |
03-02-2005, 11:19 AM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
Posts: 7,484
| Re: Ideas on vho an Mh setup
You are totally right! Good catch... 
HPS - High Pressure Sodium. A very red light. | |
| | |
03-02-2005, 11:24 AM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
Posts: 999
| Re: Ideas on vho an Mh setup
Yep... just checked that out to... HPS = red/orange spectrum MH = blue spectrum... I bought mine a couple months ago and havent used them yet... ill have to see if they really are HPS. If so can i still use them??? What do you guys think?
Marc. | |
| | |
03-02-2005, 11:34 AM
|
#9 (permalink)
| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
Posts: 999
| Re: Ideas on vho an Mh setup
i hooked one up on my girlfreinds 20 gal just for fun to see what they looked like... there 10 000K bulbs and they looked pretty white to me. My freind (reef_novice a 3reef member also) has them on 6 hours a day and coraline algae is growing good. At first he had a big algae problem but he had them on 10 hours a day. He cut back to 6 and everything seems to be going good. He doesnt have many corals, just button polyps that are doing very good he sais. Anyways ill check them out tonight just to be sure... Its not like i have the cash to buy a whole new set of lights anyways.
Marc. | |
| | | Reef Links |  | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -7. The time now is 12:36 PM. |
