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12-10-2007, 01:30 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Northern Michigan
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 |  Need Help, Lighting with a Budget
I need to replace my lighting on my 75g tank, 48x18x20. I would really like to stay below $200(rather my wife would really like to keep me below that) and don't mind putting a retro kit together. MH or T5 just need better then I have and the best I can make on this budget. Any help with links would be great. | 
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12-10-2007, 01:35 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: 630, IL Age: 23
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what do you have right now? | |
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12-10-2007, 01:37 PM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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just one little sps frag tank with lots of goodies | |
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12-10-2007, 01:49 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Northern Michigan
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Right now I have 2 48" shop lights with 3x10,000k bulbs and 1 acentic, more corals seem happy but the aglea battles tell me other wise. | |
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12-10-2007, 01:54 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Northern Michigan
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Another question I have, If i were to go with a MH setup, do i need T5's or VHO's to accompany it and would I only need one on a 48"? | |
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12-10-2007, 01:56 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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One of these would be good, but two would make your choices nearly limitless!! And it's COMPLETELY within your budget: 48" 216W (4-54 watt) Quad T5 Fluorescent Light Fixture (W/B) - 506051
Your 75 gal is 48" long right? _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | |
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12-10-2007, 04:00 PM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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could always try an electic eel in a bowl above the tank. i hear it works good for lighting up christmas trees. | |
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12-10-2007, 04:47 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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12-10-2007, 04:52 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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If you have a full hood ? I can hook you up with a 2 fixture 250w M/h set up with everything even SPS 14 K's like 450.00 plus shipping' . Two Reef Optic 2 reflectors mogul's complete , 2 Blue wave 1. 250 HQI ballast and 2. SPS 250 w mogul bulbs P/M me if interested _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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