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Old 12/13/2007, 06:50 PM
sin142 sin142 is offline
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Lighting Suggestions

I just bought a retrofit kit that has 2-5500k 175w MH and 2- Real Actinic Blue 55w CF. Im planning on starting a 90 gal Reef Tank and I would like to some LPS, SPS and some anemones maybe some small-polyped stony corals is this enough lighting and what would work best?

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Old 12/14/2007, 11:16 PM
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yea that should work fine. I think 5500k bulbs are a little bit to yellow for my taste but they usually have a very good par value
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Old 12/15/2007, 12:21 PM
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I appreciate your feedback i bought the set from a buddy of mine for a really good deal but the bulbs are a little old and one of the MH seems to be turning more yellow then the other so im thinking it might be time to replace the bulbs if i went with a 10000K or even 20000K bulb would that help with the yellowish tint and be better for the corals?
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Old 12/15/2007, 04:17 PM
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yea it would make the tank not look as yellow. I run 20000k radiums on my tank with out any actinics. if you are using the actinics I would get either 10k or 15k bulbs. all the bulbs look alot different depending on the brands. Here is a good link comparing diff brands.

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