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04-08-2008, 08:54 PM
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| | Teardrop Maxima Clam
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: rocklin
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i have power compacts 48" lights that are really good for my 55 gallon tank and even support a green carpet, and has been for a long time, um i found a 125 gallon tank, its 6 feet long 20" wide and like 22 inches tall, if i put all my live rock and corals withing 4 feet in the middle of the tank and towards the back where my lights would be, would the lights support whats under them, i jsut would put live rock on the foot to the right and the foot to the left | 
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04-08-2008, 10:42 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Originally Posted by nemo1991  i have power compacts 48" lights that are really good for my 55 gallon tank and even support a green carpet, and has been for a long time, um i found a 125 gallon tank, its 6 feet long 20" wide and like 22 inches tall, if i put all my live rock and corals withing 4 feet in the middle of the tank and towards the back where my lights would be, would the lights support whats under them, i jsut would put live rock on the foot to the right and the foot to the left |
Ummm
Hard to say without knowing pc's wattage.
But if was "really good" for your 55, probably going to be barely adequate, if that, for 125.  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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04-09-2008, 10:04 AM
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| | Caribbean Reef Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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Very true.....
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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 true perc ,1 porcelain crab, tuxedo urchin, 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, rd/blue blastos, neon grn bali slimer acro, ROB, 1 grn 1 purple tipped frogspawns, feather duster, purple, and orange rics, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, cndycane corals, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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04-09-2008, 02:11 PM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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umm, yea......i would get all new lights. im guessing 260 watts PC, thats not nearly half enough........considering depth of that tank. I would go T5 or halide........ _________  | |
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04-09-2008, 02:56 PM
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Why waste your time and money on a 6 foot tank only to use 4 feet. | |
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04-09-2008, 03:00 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
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I agree with the others, 22" is too deep for pc's. Im not even sure if T5 would do the trick. If its in your budget, I would get Mh's. _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew  | |
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04-09-2008, 05:26 PM
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| | Teardrop Maxima Clam
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: rocklin
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well i just found a mh on craigs list, only like 1, and it was 230 watts, what if i put the 48" all the way to one side and the mh for the remaining 2 feet? | |
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