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I have decided to go with mh now after the upset of buying pc lights. My first question is what is better and easier to wire, the Magnetic Ballast or Electronic Ballast? I also saw some tanks that have the MH lights and the pure actinic how do they do this? Is it worth getting the retrofit kit...

Could anyone give me some suggestions on which MH lights to get? I am looking on hello lights and i see 250W HL MH Retrokfit Kit (Single Ended) and 250W (M58/H37) Metal Halide Retrofit Kit ~Probe Start which is better do I need two or just one? I see these are a lot cheaper then the ones I...

Me and my wife are in the process of setting up our tank. Today she went to our lfs and came back with some more ls, lr, and lighting. The lighting is corallife aqualight. It has 2 65 watt 10k daylight and 2 65 watt true actinic 03 blue straight compact fluorescent lamps. These cost me 350 which...

Thank you very much reef. My wife mostly wants a reef tank with coral and anemones and a few fish with a good clean up crew but when we ugrade to the 190 i know i will need one. Its just every thread i see it keeps looking harder and harder to do. so in the 55 gal i will be ok without it with lr...

So its better to build your own. If you dont mind can I get some links to the basics of building them. I found a bunch of threads on it but not one that breaks it down to noob terms.

First of all thank you for looking at this to help me. I am starting a new 55 gallon reef tank setup. All I have now is the tank, lights, powerheads and testing equiment. I have been and still looking on this site for all my information on what to use and buy. I thank all of you for this, ok...