rabid frog
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Here are some of my new pictures under my new vho's. These pictures are not edited and are under 210 watts of vho super attinic.
New pics under vho
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lion_crazz
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Beautiful!
rabid frog
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thanks. I ill have to get more pictures of other frags I orderd. Its funny spent 200 bucks and got a total of likw 30 polyps.
maxalmon
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Hey rabid frog....very cool name....LOL....Loving those zoo's, man those are some awesome colors. Do you find the VHO's to be better than MH for the zoo's?. I'm just upgrading my lighting to 250w MH with 96w actinics, plus I've got a 2 zoo frag tanks under construction. I've already got my shoping list formed for the frag tanks :joy:
rabid frog
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I have found that the colors come out more with the vho's but the growth is deffinately better under the Mh's. So now I have the best of both worlds.
If I were you I would look at getting a mh set with vho's instead of pc's. There is soooo much difference it is really hard to believe. I think the main thing is that a pc attinic is not a true attinic. I can see a great difference in color between the pc's and the vho's.
I got the zoo's that I posted from a lfs. The ones that I ordered online are still small frags and I am very disappointed in them. I have a frag of blue ones that are greyish at best. Some of the other ones I ordered did not look nothing like the ones I saw on their web site.
If I were you I would look at getting a mh set with vho's instead of pc's. There is soooo much difference it is really hard to believe. I think the main thing is that a pc attinic is not a true attinic. I can see a great difference in color between the pc's and the vho's.
I got the zoo's that I posted from a lfs. The ones that I ordered online are still small frags and I am very disappointed in them. I have a frag of blue ones that are greyish at best. Some of the other ones I ordered did not look nothing like the ones I saw on their web site.
rabid frog
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you can find lots of info on light specs on this site. just go to the equipment forum and do a search on lighting and you will find more infromation than I can give you. I am by no means and expert. It is gonig to depend a lot on the type of corals you want to keep. With pc's or vho's you would be able to keep soft corals (which zoas fall under I believe). For some of the lps you would be able to keep under pc's. Your best bet would to go with a mh/vho combo and cover all the bases. For a 180 I think 250 watt mh's would work. You want to try to have one mh bulb for every 2 feet of tank (i think) You then would be able to keep clams, sps, lps, softies. Better to make the investment now than have to upgrade later.
Currently I have 3 clams, frog spawn, bubble corals, sps of diff types, a yellow figi leather, mushrooms, and they all do well under mh's. The only thing that I have not do so well under the mh's was a rock of white mushrooms. They fell apart only days after having them in my tank. I even tried to move them to my Nano with the pc's but it did not help.
If you go with mh's expect to have to deal with heat. I have a fan in my hood that does the trick for me. If I had the money to invest I would get a chiller but there are too many things inline before it, so it is not really an option.
Currently I have 3 clams, frog spawn, bubble corals, sps of diff types, a yellow figi leather, mushrooms, and they all do well under mh's. The only thing that I have not do so well under the mh's was a rock of white mushrooms. They fell apart only days after having them in my tank. I even tried to move them to my Nano with the pc's but it did not help.
If you go with mh's expect to have to deal with heat. I have a fan in my hood that does the trick for me. If I had the money to invest I would get a chiller but there are too many things inline before it, so it is not really an option.