Lighting for LPS & SPS combo tank

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Placement, placement, placement....placement is everything when doing a LPS/sPs combo type tank!

I prefer T5's, but that goes for everything now so my lighting opinion means nothing, but if you know your livestock like you should and have some experience you will be able to make them thrive under any sufficient lighting application with proper placement!

Also, when you consider lighting for this tank...you should consider flow as they work together when trying to properly mix LPS with SPS. flow is actually the hard part. Ask yourself, "how will I keep the lower lit areas with less turbulent flow?" It gets more complicated than that, but I think you also need to strongly consider the flow/lightin relationship if you are going to mix species successsfully.

disclaimer: Size of the tank is crucial as well as a larger tank makes it easier to mix these types of animals and prior to posting this I didn't pay attention to what size the tank is in question

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