Watts your lighting? Please list some specs.....

[ryebread]

Hello fellow hobbiests-
I've been fooling around with different lighting variations for several months now trying to find something that I really like..........new VHO........different MH etc, etc...
I haven't been successful in getting "that" lighting that I've always wanted. Tank is always too yellow or too blue or too boring. Well, I finally got something I'm really pleased with!
Final Lighting Combo that made me happy is this:
Actinic 03 URI VHO
Aquasun URI VHO
2 x 250w XM 20,000k MH
Actinic 03 URI VHO
Super Actinic URI VHO
The point I'm getting to is this.......what lighting combination has finally made you happy?

 

[jugger]

sounds like a cool combo of lights.....now come on i know you have some pics

 

[blk822]

I have always used URI bulbs. I run 3 110watt actinics, and 3 110watt white/actinics. These all sit about 1" off the water of my 75 gal. I have always loved the way everything looks.

 

[birdy]

One 250w, Ushio 10k MH, two 95w URI super actinic VHO's.
Looks good to me over my 58gal. 10k is pretty yellow all by itself though.

 

[chinnyr]

I now have 2x 110w vho actinic and 2x 175w MH 10k.It gives it that shimmering underwater look.My other tank has 2x 95w vho actinic and 2x 95w vho whites.

 

[kistheeze]

Rye - what's the diff. between the actinic 03 URI's and the Super Actinic URIs - do the super actinics have a secret ingredient to irradicate stains?
The lighting I run right now isn't my ideal - it's a little yellow... Running 2X175W 10k Ushios and 2X65W Actinic 03 PC's....
The plan is, in a few months (hopefully) to slap this system on my 75 and upgrade the bigger tank to 250 HQI 10k XM's and Run 440w of VHO actinic. - I've seen that combo on other tanks and I like it....
The other one that was particularly pleasing - and suprisingly not as blue as I would have thought was 400W radiums on HQI ballasts with minimal VHO supplementation... WOW - what amazing colors out of everything that guy gets...

 

[007]

currently I run 2x75w VHO . . . one 50/50 and one 03. Pretty crisp white color and a touch of blue.
I think that on the next set up I will run a 250w DE 20K and thats it . . .

 

[lestregus]

i run 440 vho on my 75 2 uri super actinic and 2 uri super whites.. i think this gives a fairly natural look while still bringing out the color in your corals.. i don't want corals to look blue that arent supposed to be blue i plan on adding some MH in the future but not sure what bulb yet...

 

[reefer1]

Just got my new lights today, 3 DE 250 14000k mh and 2 95w 50/50pc , looks like natural sunlight, will be couple of weeks before all screens are removed (slow acclimation to new light), but then it will be great:jumping: :jumping: :jumping:

 

[robchuck]

Right now I'm running 2x175W MH (1x 10,000K Ushio & 1x 10,000K AB) with 96W Actinic 03 PC. Once I take my canopy off to stain and poly it, everything will be replaced with 2x250W MH using the PFO 13,000K bulb unsupplemented.

 

[kpk]

I ordered my new setup so I will have to see how it looks...I am going to run 2 uri actinics and 2x250w mh 14k hamiltons.

 

[nm reef]

I'm still working with the lighting on the new display but currently I'm running 2x250 65k Iwasakis and 2x110 URI super actinics. The combination looks good but still is a bit on the yellow side for my tastes. I'm seriously considering a 400 Ushio in the center. Later this week I may borrow a ballast/fixture from a fellow reefer and see how the 10k Ushio will look before I spend the cash on the retro. I'll definitely need to add a third MH either way...running 2x250 on the 5' display leaves a shadow in the middle in the shape of a "V"...but what I'll add is still up in the air...I want to eventually have a bright white lighting with all of them on and run the actinics 1.5 hrs before and after the MH's for a dawn to dusk effect.

 

[fender]

1 x 400w 10k Coralvue
2 x 95w VHO URI Super 03
Still a little too yellow.
I think I may go to a 20k MH with 50/50 next go round.

 

[buzz]

I run 2-110W VHO actinics and 2-250W MH 10K's.

 

[zanemoseley]

I just fired up my new lighting yesterday, I'm running 2X250w 10k XM bulbs and 2X55 Actinic 03, the tank looks great, it looks completely white to me, I heard the XM's don't look good till 100hrs burn in but I think my looked crisp white right out of the box, I'm running them on standard magnetic ballasts.

 

[dburr]

The point I'm getting to is this.......what lighting combination has finally made you happy?
I'm still not happy I have 2 175w 10k Coralvue and 2 NO atinics. Next time I order bulbs i'm going prolly to the 12k. I want just a little more blue.

 

[ags]

3 x 110 watt URI atinics
3 x 110 white atinics
over a 90 gallon tank.
I like to err on the side of slightly blue, makes the coral glow, which I like.

 

[niger12]

I run a combination of lights.
2 55w PC Actinic 03
2 55w PC 10K
2 35w T5 Actinic
2 35w T5 10K
360w total over my 35g
My hood is very cramped. I have run these lights seperately at different times. Some of my corals prefer PC and some seem to do better under T5. My new tank is being set up with a single 400w MH.

 

[richierich2000]

well I run 2x250 watt 20,000k xm on my 150 as soon as my new house is done and I set up my 210 I am going to run 3x250 20,000k xm I though they where just cheap bulbs but I really like them
come on guy no pictures