Lighting A Nuvo 10 With T5's Par Map

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Some time ago I decided to light my nuvo 10 with t5's. Why on earth would anyone do that you may ask. Well I just got sick of so many options with led. I wanted to turn the light on, and turn it off. I wanted it to just simply grow coral. So with advice from here, and various other places. I decided on using a 24" t5 fixture from amazon. It cost me 60$ . I have installed within it 1 Ati Blue Plus, and 1 Ati Coral Plus. The fixture is mounted 12 inches from the waters surface. I run it for 8 hours a day right now. I plan to buy a reef brite because I miss the glowing coral. However everything is EXTREMELY happy. All coral is thriving. The reaction has beat the kessil, and hipargero lights that I had used before. So without further rambling nonsense. Here is the par map. It was taken with a apogee 420 usb meter.

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Here is what the setup looks like.

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