Ride Red
01/24/2006, 01:20 PM
Hi:
I'm adding more light to my new 300. It has always been in the general plan. I was waiting till all the bad algae went the way of the Dodo and the tank was stable. Currently it has 2x250w 10k MH on the ends and 2x220w Jebo HO mixed running the length of the tank. I had all of the lights from old projects. This left the middle of the tank, between the 2 center overflows a little dark, forcing me to place the high light corals and clams on the ends. After looking around I've decided to add a 400w 20k MH for the center section. I was floating between a 400w or a 250w. I was going to go with a 250w to keep the heat down, but since I've added a 250w heater to the sump and still have not seen temps higher than 77 I think I'm OK with the 400w without having to worry about a chiller. I never even installed the fans I bought in the hood. I also think the 20K will look good since the tank is heavily favored to the 10k end of the spectrum. Ideally, I'd like 13k bulbs for all the MH, but the old ones still have 5 months or so left in them.
Am I missing anything? Opinions?
I'll probably pull the trigger tonight.
Thanks,
Bruce
I'm adding more light to my new 300. It has always been in the general plan. I was waiting till all the bad algae went the way of the Dodo and the tank was stable. Currently it has 2x250w 10k MH on the ends and 2x220w Jebo HO mixed running the length of the tank. I had all of the lights from old projects. This left the middle of the tank, between the 2 center overflows a little dark, forcing me to place the high light corals and clams on the ends. After looking around I've decided to add a 400w 20k MH for the center section. I was floating between a 400w or a 250w. I was going to go with a 250w to keep the heat down, but since I've added a 250w heater to the sump and still have not seen temps higher than 77 I think I'm OK with the 400w without having to worry about a chiller. I never even installed the fans I bought in the hood. I also think the 20K will look good since the tank is heavily favored to the 10k end of the spectrum. Ideally, I'd like 13k bulbs for all the MH, but the old ones still have 5 months or so left in them.
Am I missing anything? Opinions?
I'll probably pull the trigger tonight.
Thanks,
Bruce