Mini bow 5

[benzzin190]

Ok well i have a mini bow 5 aquarium..i want to make it a nano reef but have a ? where can i get a good ballast kit for it.Its a 7 gallon so what 3 watts per gallon?????????let me know your thoughts

[hip68]

Lowes has a light for about 15bucks that is a 13w compact flourescent. It lights up my girlfriends 2.5g nano up fairly well. There are also replacement bulbs available that are 10k/03 in the 13w variety. So with maybe two or three of these over your 5g you should be in good shape. Heres a pic of the nano and light so you can judge for yourself.

http://home.houston.rr.com/hdfish/Full-Nano3.jpg

[benzzin190]

yea hwat can you grow in there???Hmm with the old hood for it do you think two pc lights can go in there and i can put a cover over the lights then put a fan on the other side???Sound good
Thats my thoughts on it so far..i need to get a new filter..But lighting is my concern..what is a good tank have 5 watts per gal?

[benzzin190]

Also i have a ballast its a coralife 45 watt ballast..i think per bulb..Do you thik if i cut the Normal output bulbs...or flouresent..
can i cut the endcaps off and get pc caps???or am i crazy???
George

[CedarReefer]

I'm kinda doing the same thing and found this webapge to be helpfull.

http://turetsky.org/nanoreef/index.html

Sean

[hip68]

We can keep the soft corals in there ok. the mushrooms are doing great and we just added some green star polyps. There are also some hermit crabs(zebra and blue leg) and 2 nassirous snails as well. Its too small to keep any fish weve seen so far in it... but as a coral tank its doing well. Ive thought about ripping the incandescent light out of the hood that came with it and adding this pc in. Would do even better if more of the light actually got to the tank.

[CedarReefer]

Originally posted by hip68
Ive thought about ripping the incandescent light out of the hood that came with it and adding this pc in. Would do even better if more of the light actually got to the tank.

Are you saying that a regular light bulb is all that you have in the tank and you still have growing corals?

[hip68]

Nono.. the light on the tank is the one in the picture.. 13w of PC. What im thinking about is gutting the hood that came with the tank(incandescent bulb) and fitting the PC light into it. I would need to disassemble the lamp to do it,but i dont thin it would be too difficult.

[JEMichael IV]

Try this link :)

http://www.ahsupply.com/twox.htm