Opinions needed
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:02 pm
Ok, I'm looking for opinions here. I have a 75 gal. tank that has mainly LPS corals ( Caulastrea, Lobophyllia, pagoda cup, tubastrea...so far) and plan on adding a few montiporas( I have a capricornis frag and hope to get a digitata soon). Also have some zooanthus and a green star polyp rock. I had a 220 W pc fixture that was old, and a fairly new 260 W aqualight(2-10K, 2-actinic) I was running one 55W-8800K and one 55W 10K bulb on the old fixture (the ballasts were going, one at a time)
. I just got a Custom Sea Life 260W fixture with 4 moonlight bulbs (2-10Kand 2 actinic bulbs) So I now have 520W of lighting. I think this is a little overkill for what I have in my tank right now and don't want to completely shock my corals, so would you suggest running the new fixture and using only the actinics on the aqualight? Or would it be better to run just the 10K bulbs on it? And boy, how amazing the difference in the CSL actinics!! Very very blue! Thanks for any opinions, Sue
