Best Lighting

[Sharkboy97]

I have a 90 gallon and i was going to put 440 watts of VHO lighting, unless you think there is a better option and i can not do metal halide, the corals i will be keeping is hammers, torch, ricordias, zoos, xenias, and brains so what would be the best retro fit lighting for a 90 gallon 24"h

[The Grim Reefer]

A 4 x 54 watt T5 system would be good if heat is a concern. www.reefgeek.com has good prices.

[Cubman777]

Why cant you have MH's?

[Sharkboy97]

because the lights would be 5 inches off the water and i can not afford a chiller

[vthondaboi]

For those corals I would do VHOs on an Icecap ballast personally.

T5s are nice but not sure if you can place those corals up high without burning them.

[VaderWS6]

Yup, for those corals VHO will be perfect.

[Pieface]

I'm running MH's in a custom made hood and no chiller, but I have two four inch fans that are blowing freash air into the hood all the time the lights are on.

[Reefer@1620]

Yea i hear if you place a fan blowing across the top of the water it works very well at keeping things cool and is $20 as aposed to $200 dollers.

[Pieface]

That is how my tank is set up, two fans. One pulling in the air and the other blowing it out. I will say this, if the room get over 80 the tank temp will rise over 78.