Any of these lights good for softies and zoa?

[porksoda]

Well i want to get corals and just softies and zoa and maybe some shrooms. But here are the 2 links i have to them. I just dont have much money to spend on lighting. Just let me know if any of these are good or bad ideas. Thanks.
http://www.tropicalfishstore.com/discount-lightingPC.htm
http://www.tropicalfishstore.com/di...-lightingT5.htm
I just dont want to get something that wont work for me. Well thanks ppl.

Porksoda

[drummereef]

Check out Premium Aquatics for some lights. Here's a nice T5 setup. Plenty of others to choose from too.

http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=CU-USA01122&Category_Code=Current-T5

[porksoda]

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[porksoda]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8892334#post8892334 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by porksoda
Well i want to get corals and just softies and zoa and maybe some shrooms. But here are the 2 links i have to them. I just dont have much money to spend on lighting. Just let me know if any of these are good or bad ideas. Thanks.
http://www.tropicalfishstore.com/discount-lightingPC.htm
http://www.tropicalfishstore.com/di...-lightingT5.htm
I just dont want to get something that wont work for me. Well thanks ppl.

Porksoda
Maybe these links will work
http://www.tropicalfishstore.com/di...-lightingPC.htm
http://www.tropicalfishstore.com/di...-lightingT5.htm

[porksoda]

http://www.tropicalfishstore.com/discount-lightingT5.htm

[porksoda]

http://www.tropicalfishstore.com/discount-lightingPC.htm

[porksoda]

ok the last 2 work
lol sorry it took so many tries lol.

[porksoda]

The ones i am looking at is the 48 inch ones. Ok thanks ;)

[kass03]

Be carefull what you order. Some of those T5 bulbs have a built in ballast so when they burn out you have to replace the whole fixture instead of just a new bulb. Being they're that cheap I'm guessing thats what they are but not sure.

You have a 48 inch tank so you want 47- 48 inch bulbs not 36.

I'd say you need at least 4 54 watt high output bulbs which are for a 48 inch tank.
I have 6 of them on my 55 and like it. 6 is better because you can run more combos of bulbs.
Another thing you want in lighting is 2 seperate on/off switches so you can put a timer on them and run actinics for dawn/dusk effect.

You don't have to go real expensive but get something halfway decent the first time or it will cost you more in the long run when you still arent happy with them.

kass