Short Light fixture.

[fgcu14]

OK here's the deal, I've been wanted to upgrade my lighting and I found a cheap pc fixture. it is 24inches and has a 96watt bulb and is fan cooled. this is much cheaper than the 36 inch fixture that i was origonaly looking at and in addition to the cost difrencial the 36 inch is not fan cooled. Does anyone think it would be a problem to keep my 36in floresent fixture on the tank and place the smaller 24inch light on top also? will this give me the same effect and will I be able to keep low light corals and anemones? Any help would be awsome. Also to clear things up, I have a 46inch bowfront so I would have room.

 

[viper_930]

It'll be ok for some corals, but depending on what's in your current 36" fixtures anemones may or may not be ok. What kind of bulbs and what's the wattage of that fixutre?

 

[fgcu14]

my 36inch is a flouresent, not shure of the exact wattage, the writting on the bulb reads as follows:
F30T8, the fixture is rated to 40 watts.
If that bulb won't do I have a Coralife 50/50 bulb t12,30 watt. however when i try using it in my current fixture it does not work. I think it's the starter, because it wants to start but just can't get going. Is it possible to upgrade the starter in the 36 in fixture to accomidate this bulb?