[oonycxwilloo]

simple question...

which one would you prefer for my 29 gallon reef tank...

30 inch 2x65 Watt Current USA PowerCompact Dual Satellite Fixture

or.....

Coralife 30 Inch Aqualight With 2-65W 50/50 Lamps Straight Pin Base (with fans)

or.....

Coralife 30 Inch lunar Aqualight With 2-65W

PS: if you have any of these for sale please post or PM me

[Zoous]

I have a 36" Corallife PC. I like it but it really depends what you plan to have in your tank. Right now, I use it as a back up.

	PC Power Compact Lighting, typically used in lower light aquariums supporting soft corals, LPS, and fish. Their low cost and cooler operating temperatures are an excellent choice for beginner aquariums and smaller tanks.

[Reefer420]

If they have a 30" Orbit you should go for that. Best you can buy in PC hoods IMO...very solid, quiet, nice looking, etc..

	PC Power Compact Lighting, typically used in lower light aquariums supporting soft corals, LPS, and fish. Their low cost and cooler operating temperatures are an excellent choice for beginner aquariums and smaller tanks.

[cali_reef]

Neither!! Skip the PC lighting and go to T-5's..

	PC Power Compact Lighting, typically used in lower light aquariums supporting soft corals, LPS, and fish. Their low cost and cooler operating temperatures are an excellent choice for beginner aquariums and smaller tanks.

[Sean]

The Obit is made by current as well it's better quality then satallite. So if that is an opton I would go for the Orbit

[Chiefmcfuz]

Depending on what you want to keep you might want to think about other options. T5 and/or Metal halide lighting are the best options for SPS corals, while PC is great for most soft and LPS corals. If you go with PC lihting I have used and still use a Coralife lunar aqualight and I love it.

	PC Power Compact Lighting, typically used in lower light aquariums supporting soft corals, LPS, and fish. Their low cost and cooler operating temperatures are an excellent choice for beginner aquariums and smaller tanks.

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

	LPS Large Polyped Stony corals – In the aquarium hobby this is a common division of the species of stony corals based upon the visual assessment of the size of the polyps. Corals in this category were among the first stony corals to be kept successfully in captivity and include many very beautiful species. Commonly kept Genera include Euphyllia (hammer/frogspawn coral), Favia (brain coral), Plerogyra (bubble coral), Lobophyllia (meat/tooth coral), and Caulastrea (candycane coral). LPS corals also include the popular solitary non-colonial stony corals such as Fungia (plate coral), Cynarina (button coral), Trachyphyllia (open brain coral), and Herpolitha (tongue coral). Like their SPS counterparts, LPS corals require good water quality, intense lighting of the appropriate spectrum, adequate water movement and regular supplementation of calcium.

[noodleman]

Go with corallife, both of my current 96watt stripelights' ballast burnt out within a year