Try some 175 watt metal halides over your LPS tank. You can’t beat the look and shimmer and your corals will love it!
Absolutely stunning my friend!Try some 175 watt metal halides over your LPS tank. You can’t beat the look and shimmer and your corals will love it!
Good call sir. You are absolutely correct. I was going to mention that but assumed the OP didn't have NPS in the system. I appreciate you adding to the thread!!
I wish hallides were still popular, I looked into getting one for my 25 gallon but most are too high powered and are a bit too blue for my liking, I was looking for 5500k warmth and 75-150w. Seems like theres not enough hallide manufactures around for something that specific though.Try some 175 watt metal halides over your LPS tank. You can’t beat the look and shimmer and your corals will love it!
They are still available my friend. I am going to be running halides on my new build.I wish hallides were still popular, I looked into getting one for my 25 gallon but most are too high powered and are a bit too blue for my liking, I was looking for 5500k warmth and 75-150w. Seems like theres not enough hallide manufactures around for something that specific though.
A 175 watt 10k hung high would be perfect!I wish hallides were still popular, I looked into getting one for my 25 gallon but most are too high powered and are a bit too blue for my liking, I was looking for 5500k warmth and 75-150w. Seems like theres not enough hallide manufactures around for something that specific though.
I think a reef brite fixture would have a lot of light spillage over a 25 gallon, but I bet it would grow coral like crazy!
Absolutely agree. The foot print on a 25 isn't big. I've seen 150 watt halide fixtures that mount on the rim of a tank. I'll see if I can find it. It was a double ended bulb though. I need to see what aqua brite carries.
The light spill would be insane. But, if he had house plants...set them next to the tank. Kill two birds with one stone
Tank is only 11 inches tall, I bet I could get a tan from being in that room lol.
This makes more sense. I feel a lot of YouTubers talk about having a 3-6 hour white spectrum surrounded by only blue.
Nice! Great tank, very nice. Love the hammers. I’m going for a large hammer garden (torches stretch to far lol) with acros on top. I like your light schedule too! I miss my kessils
I am mostly euphyllia. I have over 20 torches, several hammers and frogspawn. My peak hours are from 12pm - 5pm running Kessils at 70% color at 85% intensity with two 14k Reefbreeder Edge bars at 50% during peak hours. My euphyllia during that time receive about 450 PAR.
The last picture is during ramp down where it is mostly blue for the last hour of the day. I have a three hour ramp up and three ramp down on each side of my peak. Whites are included in all hours except the first hour and last hour of the day
I’ll have to check out his article, I agree. I’m glad I posted this, all tanks are looking great and glad to hear corals are doing great.
Awesome!I run my reef lights on the graph below, however that doesn’t include the 10 hrs of ~ 200 watts daylight spectrum lighting to grow my mangroves.
After 6 hours are you all blue or do you mean 6 hours at say 100% then going down? With whites still on.I’m blasting my LPS par wise and they are tolerating it well. I’m running pretty white with some red spectrum too for 6 hours of peak.
For 6 hours mostly while I’m at work I peak with intensity at 70pct. I start off at 80pct white and then down to 50/50 white/blue by the end of the peak intensity. After the 6 peak hours I ramp down in intensity and go slowly very blue for after dinner/kids bedtime. I have some very cool fluorescent corals I still like to view under blues. My tank is in a living area of our house and the bluer light is not appealing to my wife and I get it. I think the coral does really well with the white light.
