Lighting for 60 gallon??

[chris0412]

Hi everyone so I need to buy some new lights for my tank but I’m not sure what to do. My tank measurements are 48x12x24. And my two ideas for lighting would be 2 Ai primes or 2 of these?? I’m not really sure about how good the mars aqua lights are though.

 

[mich2599]

I would two 26s. I don't think primes would be enough and I would rather spend money on quality lights than those Chinese products.

 

[chris0412]

Any other ideas or suggestions?

 

[jda]

There are all kinds of posts about people using Mars or other black boxes. Your success depends a lot on what you are keeping...

 

[chris0412]

There are all kinds of posts about people using Mars or other black boxes. Your success depends a lot on what you are keeping...

I am just planning on keeping lps and softies. Do you think that would work?

 

[chris0412]

My LFS also has some vivaaqua boxes and not sure how good those are either

 

[jda]

Yes. You might get some shadows as the stuff gets huge, but you can always add more units or some T5s.