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Currently I am running a powercompact fixture by coralife on my main display. It has a 10k kelvin daylight bulb rated at 65 watts and a 420/460 nm actinic bulb also rated at 65 watts. I am also using 2 supplemental Led fixtures totalling 42 bulbs (1 watt per bulb) with 6 being actinic. I have a light on my fuge also but is entirely independent and will stay regardless.
I saw an advertisement for an odyssea 30 in MH fixture with 4 t-5 Vho bulbs and 4 leds for 180! The price made me really suspicious to begin with. I have never had anything made by this company, and upon looking up some reviews most are mixed. Some good some bad, although it does appear their quality has increased as of late. Im not really sure I even need to upgrade to begin with as my coral are doing great.
The highest light requiring corals in my 29 are candy cane coral and frogspawn. The candy cane is up extremely high and the frogspawn is fairly low in the tank and both are doing perfect. The rest of the coral is ricordea, shrooms, polyps, and xenia.
I use MH's on my 125's but I honestly don't keep any high light requiring organisms in my 29 nor do I ever plan too.
I also am considering a 30 inch t-5 fixture made by aquaticlife. 4 t-5 bulbs 2 daylight 2 actinic with 3 leds. It comes with a built in lighting timer which really isn't that big of a deal as all of my powerbars have timers built in.
I suppose if nothing is broke then why try to fix it, but I had planned to upgrade all along and wasn't planning on having such good results with the powercompact lighting. I really don't care for not having the shimmer effect, but the led supplemental fixtures really do help and sort of give me that.
I suppose im asking if you would go the odyssea MH route (I would replace the 4 t-5 bulbs with other actinics), the aquaticlife route with t-5 HO's or stick with what works. Thanks in advance guys.
I saw an advertisement for an odyssea 30 in MH fixture with 4 t-5 Vho bulbs and 4 leds for 180! The price made me really suspicious to begin with. I have never had anything made by this company, and upon looking up some reviews most are mixed. Some good some bad, although it does appear their quality has increased as of late. Im not really sure I even need to upgrade to begin with as my coral are doing great.
The highest light requiring corals in my 29 are candy cane coral and frogspawn. The candy cane is up extremely high and the frogspawn is fairly low in the tank and both are doing perfect. The rest of the coral is ricordea, shrooms, polyps, and xenia.
I use MH's on my 125's but I honestly don't keep any high light requiring organisms in my 29 nor do I ever plan too.
I also am considering a 30 inch t-5 fixture made by aquaticlife. 4 t-5 bulbs 2 daylight 2 actinic with 3 leds. It comes with a built in lighting timer which really isn't that big of a deal as all of my powerbars have timers built in.
I suppose if nothing is broke then why try to fix it, but I had planned to upgrade all along and wasn't planning on having such good results with the powercompact lighting. I really don't care for not having the shimmer effect, but the led supplemental fixtures really do help and sort of give me that.
I suppose im asking if you would go the odyssea MH route (I would replace the 4 t-5 bulbs with other actinics), the aquaticlife route with t-5 HO's or stick with what works. Thanks in advance guys.
