Lighting for 7.5 Bow front tank??
 

Any one out there that has one of these tanks? What kind of lighting did you put on it? Where did you buy the lighting from? I would like to make mine into a lil reef, mainly softies for now.

Thanks for any input.


Lee

I used to have one, at first I used 2 13 watt 50/50 pc bulbs, then I put a 70 watt halide on it. I found the halide was too yellow, the pc bulbs looked good but lost thier intensity very fast. I gutted out the light strip that came with the tank and installed my own lighting in it, I must say it looked pretty good.

would this coralife mini light fit its 9" long and 5" wide i dosent use legs like the bigger lights it just sits on top of the glass lid and is strong enough for some corals.
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Golds sells those coralife fixtures for 39.99

Just bought one yesterday :)

thats the only place to shop.

wOWERS! That might just work.

Yeah Golds rocks! I will measure tank tonight to see if that woulkd fit.

Thanks for the replys so far everyone!

i run one over my 3.5, they light is pretty weak. i would recomend you swap out the actinic and add another 10 bulb you so can get 18 watts of light, of if you have space try 2 of them.

What about rigging up the 20w 50/50 PC bulbs with built in ballasts from Coralife? They plug into any regular light socket.

What is this Golds place? In Edmonton?

No its in Calgary

http://www.cichlids.ca/

Darn. A good excuse for a trip to Calgary I guess.