MH for 36g tank?
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king_neptune
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a single 150 would do.
king_neptune
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I have a pfo professional series. But they went out of buisness last year, too bad, AWESOME lights!
I don't know much about specific brands. they do exist in what your describing, but expect to pay around 300-500 for a nice one. Whatever you do...don't by anything but American or European. You don't want hour house burning down from shoddy wiring.
or you can keep your eye out on craigs list...lots of lights sell there. might take a week, but you will find some within 100mile radius.
I don't know much about specific brands. they do exist in what your describing, but expect to pay around 300-500 for a nice one. Whatever you do...don't by anything but American or European. You don't want hour house burning down from shoddy wiring.
or you can keep your eye out on craigs list...lots of lights sell there. might take a week, but you will find some within 100mile radius.
stanlalee
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whatever wattage or configuration I chose (would go a single ended 175 or 250w myself) go with advanced reflectors such as lumenbrite or lumenmax elite reflectors. there are a few others (hamilton cayman sun, lumen arc) but with one light and 30"x15" it is very beneficial not to skimp on the reflector and get one of these advanced reflectors to get full coverage AND high PAR. you can get the coverage from using less reflectors by raising them but you will get half the PAR (or worse) typically compared to mediocre plain jane reflectors. if you just want to keep softies or monti's its not needed but if you want to progress to full blown sps one day dont skimp. if you really plan on using a single 150w these are critical (and you are limited to cayman sun and lumanmax 3. for the most part 150w are considered a waste of time to develop high par/high spread reflectors for. I guess the rationale being if you wanted high par why would you be using 150w)
examples:
hamilton cayman sun
lumenbrites
http://www.***************.com/coralvue/cv-lb-inside.jpg
examples of what not to settle for (these are perfectly fine for the standard l 24" per halide coverage):
ice cap pedant
hamilton reef star
http://www.**************.com/images/Categoryimages/normal/p_rd_10912_12448DZ-IO.jpg
examples:
hamilton cayman sun
lumenbrites
http://www.***************.com/coralvue/cv-lb-inside.jpg
examples of what not to settle for (these are perfectly fine for the standard l 24" per halide coverage):
ice cap pedant
hamilton reef star
http://www.**************.com/images/Categoryimages/normal/p_rd_10912_12448DZ-IO.jpg