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Old 01/31/2005, 11:25 PM
Anthony Calfo Anthony Calfo is offline
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re: lights, Marc

Its hard to say... pending tank size and species kept under it (and their needs).

To generalize though, if the tank is 200-300 galls, the total lighting is in the ballpark for a typical garden reef display.

As for the 400's being too much: I'd say not at all for tanks 30"+ and particularly if you are using 20k K lamps over deepwater species (LPS Euphylliids, Fungiids, and/or Corallimorphs for example)... or... 6500 K 400's over a dedicated shallow water sps tank.

no worries
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