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My current 125g tank uses a 24 and 48 inch bulb grow T5HO fixtures 24 and 48 to cover all 72 inchs without dark corners like youd get on 5ft fixtures... grow meaning the plant fixtures you can buy on amazon. The ones tidal gardens uses on their youtube videos. Their white with polished individual reflectors.. Looks identical to ati fixtures just with no splash guard
Anyway . 4 bulbs has been plenty thus far.. Im growing 10 diff types if zias. 15 different acroporas. Tons of euphilia like torchs.. frog spawns. And hammers ect. I also have many plating montis encrusting montis and 4 types of bubble corals.
The ONLY issue i guess would be the fixture is only 15 inchs wide i believe placed directly above my tank it lights most of it but the back.front is still a little dark. If i tilt it to thr back it gets much brighter and same for the front. Not like dramatically but it is visible..
Anyway i have some old T5 fixtures. Aqueon brand crappy reflectors.. bulbs are side by side.. and theyre only NORMAL OUTPUT but i do have two so i can add 2 more bulbs to the tank. I could also buy ballasts and rewire a 54w ballast in it. So theyd run a full output vs half.. Itd cost me only 60$ to do vs buying two new 6 bulb fixtures at 150$ a pop.
What do you guys think ? Worth doing ? Sure even with new ballasts the bulbs being side by side and no real reflector it wont take 100% advantage of the bulbd.. but its still better then 4 bulbs. Even if i keot the normal output ballasts and the lights ran at half ppwer its still 2 more bulbs at half power vs 4.
I dunno what do you guys think ? Here isa pic how id mount em . Need to buy bulbs all i have is 6500k but ya
Anyway . 4 bulbs has been plenty thus far.. Im growing 10 diff types if zias. 15 different acroporas. Tons of euphilia like torchs.. frog spawns. And hammers ect. I also have many plating montis encrusting montis and 4 types of bubble corals.
The ONLY issue i guess would be the fixture is only 15 inchs wide i believe placed directly above my tank it lights most of it but the back.front is still a little dark. If i tilt it to thr back it gets much brighter and same for the front. Not like dramatically but it is visible..
Anyway i have some old T5 fixtures. Aqueon brand crappy reflectors.. bulbs are side by side.. and theyre only NORMAL OUTPUT but i do have two so i can add 2 more bulbs to the tank. I could also buy ballasts and rewire a 54w ballast in it. So theyd run a full output vs half.. Itd cost me only 60$ to do vs buying two new 6 bulb fixtures at 150$ a pop.
What do you guys think ? Worth doing ? Sure even with new ballasts the bulbs being side by side and no real reflector it wont take 100% advantage of the bulbd.. but its still better then 4 bulbs. Even if i keot the normal output ballasts and the lights ran at half ppwer its still 2 more bulbs at half power vs 4.
I dunno what do you guys think ? Here isa pic how id mount em . Need to buy bulbs all i have is 6500k but ya