Lighting
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mrmaroon
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It depends what you mean by "most" corals. You can get away with 3-5 watta per gallon of PCs for mos softiles and some lps. For things like sps and clams, you are going to need metal halides. I have a 55g with 240 watts of PC. I keep things like mushrooms, star polyps, brains, leathers, and torches.
fishieness
Active Member
this would all depend, what size tank do you have? How high is it?
if you have an eclipse tank it woudl cost a hell of a lot because you owuld have to rebuy everything except the tank and heater. But for theses, and your normal hoods, there are retro-fit kits that let you instal either PC or VHO yourself.
Or you cau buy a whole new lighting setup and take out your hood. Unfortunatly, this site does not have lighting, so i recomend serching for retrofit kits if you want to keep your hood, or either PC or VHO lighting. Even aquarium lighting. The famous auction site, you can get some good deals on lighting.
Suposedly the new jebo/odyssea lights are good, and are pretty inexpensive too. I jsut ordered some the other day so they should be coming this week.
if you have an eclipse tank it woudl cost a hell of a lot because you owuld have to rebuy everything except the tank and heater. But for theses, and your normal hoods, there are retro-fit kits that let you instal either PC or VHO yourself.
Or you cau buy a whole new lighting setup and take out your hood. Unfortunatly, this site does not have lighting, so i recomend serching for retrofit kits if you want to keep your hood, or either PC or VHO lighting. Even aquarium lighting. The famous auction site, you can get some good deals on lighting.
Suposedly the new jebo/odyssea lights are good, and are pretty inexpensive too. I jsut ordered some the other day so they should be coming this week.