Well Doug i agree with you I was talking to Jamie at the store and that 6 ft fixture he has over the 180 is nice and it can be made to fit a 60" tank. so would 3 150's De be enough for my future tank with the legs it can be turned inward to fit. where in the tank will be some sps and lps and softies, and my clams will be on the bottom like the derasa's and the maxima and the crocea will be on ther rocks. So really in a 24" tank with a 2" sand bed. and the lights being.
I know when I had my 280 gal i had 8 normal flouresants and 4 actincs over a 30" tank and kept softies in there remember that Doug. I also had my 250's in my 170 hanging over my inwall tank they were up 16 " with the 24" BBtank. 42" and had no problem. So look at the T-5's Doug you have limited light over your tank and you sps are doing great. It looks like that alot of people are sticking with the 250's I dont know Im going 400's this time around. I think the the lower Kelvin is going to penatrate more then anything, where a higher kelvin will only go so far. Looking at the 150's in our LFs the light does go down pretty good. SO lord knows. Great I'm going to be ending up buying that fixture to test out only to go buy another one ya nigel your right here I go again....................
