2 Much Light?

[brick-brothers]

Hey I have 2 250 metal halide lights with 4 actinc bulbs. I wanted to know if its to much light for my 120gal? No corals just small fish. Hope to do corals soon.

 

[thesauce]

I think your issues will be heat and its also an expensive rig to run without corals. You could get away with a lot less in a fish only system. Just pick reef safe fish and start putting some coral frags in there!

 

[jrobbins]

unless you are planning to keep sps you dont really need the halides at all. and if all you have are fish right now you will be fine just running a couple of the t5's

 

[brick-brothers]

If I was to put some frags in, will it be too much light or will I be good with what I have?

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

yea bro it's definitely overkill lol you don't need halides for fish they are more for keeping hard corals. A big waste on electric like the sauce said if you don't have any coral whatsoever you will just get tons of algae..

 

[brick-brothers]

How many T5 will I need to start a reef tank, Im seriously thinking about doing it?

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

What you have is fine if you want to start keeping corals it's just too much for only fish..the halides use up tons of electricity especially 2 250w that was the only points we were making. Buy a frag or 2 and see what happens..good luck brotha

 

[brick-brothers]

Thanks guys

 

[Dre]

You can keep actually any coral with the lighting you have, you just have to figure out where is the best place to put them.Check cal/alk and ph first.