Atlanta... Lighting...10 gal?

[craig_08]

I live in ATL and am curious about building a 10 gal nano. I was wondering if anyone has a retrofit with enough lighting for corals they are selling. Also if anyone has any other equipment they are selling in Atlanta I would be curious to hear about it.

 

[hairtrigger]

I live in ATL. I've got a retrofit flourescent ballast capable of handling two of any size bulb up to 40 watts I think. Coralife, new in box and unused. Honestly though, Im not sure if you really want flourscents for a reef. Unless you just want to keep low light stuff.

 

[craig_08]

Why is using florescents bad? Even one 40 w bulb fits in the 3-5 w per gal rule of thumb for corals for a 10 gal nano. 80 would be more than enough. Correct me if I am wrong.

 

[jim27]

The WPG rule needs to die. It a very bad indicator of what your lighting can handle. There are too many variables that come into play with lighting.
NO flourecents will suffice for lower light corals like shrooms. But if you want higher light animals like LPS then go for PC's atleast. Go with MH if you wan to keep just about anything.

 

[hairtrigger]

Yes the wattage is correct but that type of lighting isn't powerful enough to reach even the bottom of that small of a tank with near the amount of strength to sustain anything but super-low-light corals long-term because a power compact flourescent of roughly that size is still much more powerful which is why people don't just stack tons of regular flourescent lighting in thier large reefs.
PS... second that lighting rule needs to go when talking about reefs.
PPS... I'm too lazy to care about punctuation now.