What do you think about lighting?

[pwj1286]

I am thinking about getting a ClassCages.com's 120 gallon or a Oceanic 120 Gallon (no centerbrace (because it is 3/4" thick all around)). Both drilled.

Now we have set up what we are working with. What do you think about lighting?

I am thinking about putting:

• Dual 250 watt HQI's.

• • Ballast: Sunlight Supply's Electronic Blue Wave 7. (save energy)

• • Pendents: Reef Opti 3's from Sunlight Supply

• • Bulbs: Megachrome 13KK

• • VHO: 440 Watts Actinic

Comments on this setup? I am going for growth and color.

Or should I be a test subject for the new PFO LED fixture?
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[wetworx101]

One of the most impressive 120g tanks I have seen is owned by a local friend/club member in WRS. It consists of dual 250wattDE Ushio 10,000K bulbs on HQI ballasts (Hamilton, but I would go PFO or SLS instead). And then, 4x54wattT5 bulbs...2 bulbs are blue+ and 2 are actinic+. The blue+ bulbs have a much better spectrum for supplimenting 10,000Ks than just actinics, and are much brighter. His tank can grow anything (ASM G3 skimmmer, dual Tunze 6100s, and a calcium reactor are the other critical specs), and looks great.

 

[Meloco14]

Looks good to me. I don't know anything about those bulbs though. That should be plenty of light for most species.

 

[Anonymous]

I like lights.

 

[Anonymous]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[SnowManSnow]

BTW.. I just picked up a 60 gallon tank from glasscages today, and I was impressed. Good solid tank.. they made my 60 cube out of 1/2 inch glass, and eurobraced the top and bottom of the tank. The owner was also super nice and gave us a tour of his tank making "complex"


Glass Cages = A+

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