take out splash cover to increase pc light intensity?

[h2o]

I visited a fish store in san francisco today and saw all their reef tanks without splash cover. I opened one of their exotic reef tank canopy and saw lot of dry salts atttached to their PC bulbs, the rep said they cleaned off the salt once a week. I assume the reason to take off the cover is to have enough intensity for the clams and inverts that require lot of light. is this a good thing to do and will it hurt the pc bulbs. your opinions please.

 

[puff(er) daddy]

My guess is that if the lfs did it, it should be safe. The only thing you'll have to clean the lights more than if you had the splash cover.

 

[trigahappynigerog]

it would probably be ok but there is alot of cleaning involved with the bulbs. which store in the city???

 

[h2o]

thanks, i took it off just one night and yes there was a lot of cleaning required. I will try more to see it makes any changes to my corals. TRIGAHAPPYNIGER. it's the big store on Geary Blvd close by USF, sorry i don't think i can say the name of that store on this bbs.