Lighting the final straw. Everyone read.

[rickzter]

1. 30g
2. 18in
3. Reef
4. Hamilton Reefstar SE MH - 175w - 14K Bulb
5. Lighting does the trick. I decided to eliminate flourescent as I dont like them being replaced and causing algal blooms. Everything was spreading under the MH, including my galaxea sp.

Unfortunately I had to tear it down to remove a pest and am now rebuilding. I will post a thread on this as soon as I get my tank re-aquascaped and corals settle in again.

[Bruce]

Originally Posted by Reef Lover

Bruce,
You went from 260w PC lights to 216w T-5 lights. I thought the more watts the better. I need to replace my light soon. Salt got into endcaps and its corroding. I was think about getting T-5.

Yup, even thought i went down in wattage, because of how much reflection the t-5hos have, its almost, in my opinion 2x as much light. When i had only 2 bulbs on it was as bright as all 4 of my PCs.

The t-5hos are great!

[90_Berlin_joe]

TinFury, you have a PM about the T5's, You can also Pick Bruce's brain. He is very informitive on the T5's.


Thanks again Bruce for the suggestion I am very happy with the T5 TEK hood.

[FENKER=mountain_boy]

1. 55g
2.18"
3. sps/clams
4.tek 4x54w t-5's 2 actinic+, 1 aquablue, 1 6k midday
5. the best lighting ive had and i can keep anything even on the sand bed, the only bad thing is no shimmer

[Monacle]

8- 40 galllon breeder tanks with a divider in the middle making 16- 20 gallon square short tanks.

2- 400 watt mh - adding another 400w mh in a week or two
12- 5 ft. Vho 6 of which are 50/50 and 6 that are super actinic

I love the light, but I also have my lights pretty high above the tank... That's a whole other issue, that I think hasn't been mentioned yet. The distance off the top of the tank that the lights are going to be will change the intensity at water depth. I keep my corals in the tanks that are under the mh, and I do have a couple frags of Green star polyps and things like that under the 6 bank of vhos.