marine glo and power glo bulbs

[julius]

are these lights are good to a reef tank im using both but i was told there is not enough watts to substain life in the reef in a couple of wks im going to get a different lighting setup what would be a good system for a 29gal tank.

 

[barracuda]

My prev set up was lit by 2 life glo, 2 marine glo, 1 power glo bulbs. Each was 40 watts. It was good and nice lighting.
Marine glo is 7100K actinic
Life glo is 6700K daylight with built-in reflector (imo best white NO fluoriscent bulb).
Power glo is 18000K bulb.
As with any NO fluoriscent bulbs light penetration is low. I kept brain corals(at hte bottom), softies, LPS (Frogspawn, Fox), polyps, with a good grows rate. I doubt you will be able to keep SPS corals like acropora, monipora. Well, you maybe will be able to keep them alive for awhile.

 

[julius]

yea thats what im saying pretty much those kind of lights just substain life but not prolong it and help it grow im using them because its the only thing i have right know soon i will be upgrading my lighting system maybe thats why i havent seen anything growing off of my liverock i have only one polyp he dont open like he should i know what i have to do. NEW LIGHTING.

 

[timsedwards]

Julius - WOHHH! Use fullstops man!
Yes I had marine glos and they are great for FOWLR tanks but not much use for corals and especiallu coraline IME.
All the best,
Tim.

 

[julius]

until i get new lighting i really wont have anything growing but what the hell are they good for if they cant maintain corals lives so pretty much the liverock and corals is useless in power-glo and marine-glo lighting

 

[barracuda]

How much of em and how much watts do ya have?

 

[julius]

i have only a single bulb in there right know its the marine-glo i think its only 20 watts i switch off between the both of them i dont think it makes a bit of a diff except in color.

 

[barracuda]

Yeah, you need to upgrate that lighting if you wanna keep something in that tank.