lighting question please help the helpless

[duke62]

i have a current 65w lighting fixture with dual actinic dual daylight and lunar lights. now am i only pushing 65 w of daylight or do i add the dual together and figure its 130w or are all daylights ,considering there are 4 daylight florecent bulbs together are multiply it by 4 i know it sounds retarded but i am curious

 

[TimberTDI]

Do you have 4 65w bulbs? If so then you have 260w.

Steven

 

[nanoreefer22]

How many bulbs do you have? Are the bulbs half blue/ half white? Or are some all blue and all white?

 

[duke62]

yes i have 4 bulbs

 

[duke62]

amount of bulbs

2 purple bulbs 2 bluish bulbs 4 white bulbs 4 moon lights

 

[duke62]

amount of bulbs

2 purple bulbs 2 blueish bulbs 4 white bulbs 4 moon lights

 

[duke62]

also

can i leave the 4 actinic bulbs on with the four daylight bulbs

 

[nanoreefer22]

Ok first you say 4 bulbs then you talk about eight.

I'm going to assume you're counting each half as a seperate bulb. Yes you have 130watts of daylight and the rest are actinic.

 

[duke62]

good enough light

is it good enough light for the anemone i have

 

[duke62]

im sorry i made a mistake i counted the 1 fixture as 2 bulbs come on they look like 2 bulbs lol

 

[nanoreefer22]

is it good enough light for the anemone i have

I don't think so. Since you have ammonia and other things that need to be fixed. I would still get rid of your anemone at this point. That lighting is only going to be sufficeint for some LPS and most if not all soft corals.

 

[duke62]

worked hard tday

i bought a new 15 gal drum moved it near tank filling it up as we speak i got new tester and my ammonia is near 0.00 by tomorrow after i clean tank yet again im hopin its back to normal.and nitites nitrates 0.00 ph is 8.4 phosphates are 0.00 calcium is back to 470 the light is what concerned me because i thought i only had 65w but found out its 130 im getting ready to get sump or hang on by sat and a skimmer so am i on right path

 

[nanoreefer22]

130watts of PCs is very little light over a 75g.

And Sumps cant be hang on

 

[duke62]

a sump or a hang on

 

[nanoreefer22]

Or a hang on what?

 

[TimberTDI]

Kris,

I think he means a sump with a hang on overflo

 

[32Bit_Fish]

I have 130w on my 20G. You need more light for your 70g if you want to keep anemone.

I think 6+w/gallon for anemone tank.