Best light for a frag tank? Ready....Poll

[hoopsdaddy]

Reefbreeders for my vote.

 

[Mike J.]

My frag tank is 2'x2'x1' and after a lot of deliberation decided to use a 250 watt MH in order to get full coverage of 2'x2'.

 

[bigcapct]

Reefbreeders for my vote.

I just got one today! Photon 24

 

[bigcapct]

Anyone think I can use 2 kessil 150w on a 4x2x12 tank? All softies?

 

[domingo]

My selection is LED.

 

[domingo]

And will also add some 6500K MH, to the LED.

 

[Reefing Madness]

I agree, the Hydra has crazy coloring, and powerful lights.

 

[Reefinny]

I love my Acan 600 series

 

[WesF]

The best lighting for your frag tank will be similar to the lighting you are using over your display. Otherwise you will lose time as your coral acclimates/adjusts going from one tank to the other.

 

[diamondreef]

We have a rapid led on our frag tank and the ecotech gen 2 radion on our display. Radion is new but the rapid has been wonderful also

 

[diamondreef]

Oh our display is a 30g rimless cube so... almost the same.. 24x24x12

 

[Fin]

Kind of depends what your purpose for a frag tank will be. Are you bringing frags into your system, or using it as a holding tank or grow out for sale or trade of frags from your system? If for incoming frags, I would definitely go with similar lighting to what you have in your display. For outgoing frags, I would go with whatever LED fixture fits your budget. They run cooler, easier on your electric bill than MH and you won't have to replace bulbs like T5s.

I chose the Evergrow fixture to use on my new frag tank, because I got it for $150 on eBay. At $150, I am not that concerned about getting them fixed. At that price, the fixture would pretty much be disposable if problems come up down the line. My tank will likely be for outgoing frags.

 

[tigrtraps]

20x20x9? I have that same frag tank footprint. I went with an AquaMini from MicMol off of Ebay.

http://i.imgur.com/bOYSfja.jpg

 

[akitareefer]

250w halide with a few blue leds

 

[1.0reef]

DIY hybrid LED/T5 just get a standard 2-8 bulb fixture and retrofit a few strings of LEDs next to the T5s.

 

[peterthegamer]

Kessil, pretty nice for the price, t5 get too hot.

 

[Aquaph8]

I think I'm gonna go hydra on my frag tank. I have t5s on my DT and the last thing I need is more bulbs to change.

 

[KorD]

T5HO has always been my goto for caring for frags..

 

[Ep3n3wp]

Tagging along...

 

[Av8Bluewater]

Well crap ... I had about made my mind up for Kessils in a soon to be sump frag section. Now I may have to rethink things.