K' Family Reef
12/04/2007, 07:17 PM
we have decided to upgrade our system
to better accomodate SPS corals and the research has begun!
right now primarily LPS corals
and currently have all VHO liting... which have read of others who only use all VHO on their SPS dominated tanks
see
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1018074
or
http://www.wamas.org/totm.php
but we like the shimmer of the halides and want to get the best coloring out of the corals that we end up purchasing
125
60x19x26 custom
x6 five foot VHO bulbs which i think = 850 watts liting (?)
(which probably aint bad for most things but not BEST)
one problem is there is a glass center support
which is about 18" wide - leaving 2 20" open sections on each side of this support
prefer to mount the halides in the canopy
basically open to any suggestions someone might have
re type lites/bulbs/ watts etc etc (know nothing about halides!)
was thinking that we might keep 4 of the VHO bulbs mounted inside the canopy and take the 2 center mounted ones out to mount the halides in there...
or
what would be a better lite combi to use w/ the halides
that is combined w/ VHO or to use T5 liting ETC ETC
just getting a feel for this right now and any opinions are appreciated... i also just recently learned about downloading photos on this site and using our camera LOL so here is a fts
regards
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc130/WarrenAmyMadelinne/bestFTS.jpg
to better accomodate SPS corals and the research has begun!
right now primarily LPS corals
and currently have all VHO liting... which have read of others who only use all VHO on their SPS dominated tanks
see
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1018074
or
http://www.wamas.org/totm.php
but we like the shimmer of the halides and want to get the best coloring out of the corals that we end up purchasing
125
60x19x26 custom
x6 five foot VHO bulbs which i think = 850 watts liting (?)
(which probably aint bad for most things but not BEST)
one problem is there is a glass center support
which is about 18" wide - leaving 2 20" open sections on each side of this support
prefer to mount the halides in the canopy
basically open to any suggestions someone might have
re type lites/bulbs/ watts etc etc (know nothing about halides!)
was thinking that we might keep 4 of the VHO bulbs mounted inside the canopy and take the 2 center mounted ones out to mount the halides in there...
or
what would be a better lite combi to use w/ the halides
that is combined w/ VHO or to use T5 liting ETC ETC
just getting a feel for this right now and any opinions are appreciated... i also just recently learned about downloading photos on this site and using our camera LOL so here is a fts
regards
http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc130/WarrenAmyMadelinne/bestFTS.jpg