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I thought you weren't going MH?
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Whare have you been for the last month? :D I am trying to decide which DE HQI to buy.
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I have seen what happens to SPS under NO lighting. It doesn't work. unless you put it directly below the waters surface. NO(even overdriven) .[/QB]
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">whare did this come from? I only use NO bulbs for actinic suplament. I have 3 NO actinic bulbs and two 96 watt PC's right now, and have another 2 on order so all togeather I will have 3 NO actinic , 4 96 watt 10000K PC's and 2 HQI's (not sure how I am going to fit them all yet but I will LOL)
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Save yourself the headache. and the coral. If you want SPS. Get MH. Go for the highest intensity you can get. ie 250W Iwasaki. They have the cheapest bulbs and are heads and tails above anything else for PAR..[/QB]
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">thats the tipical answer I was taling about [img]smile.gif[/img] but I have stated I don't want Iwasaki's as I have seen several tanks with them and I personaly don't like the colour of them. Besides I remember some one telling me that you just spent 5000.00 on your tank so why cheep out on something that important.
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Until you have the knowledge and experience under your belt start small. Go for the softies and easy LPS. As the tank matures(ie a year) and you have the care of those accomplished and you aren't having any losses due to tank conditions and learning something foreign to you, then move up to the more difficult corals. M. Digitata or something like that. If you jump right in and try keeping the more difficult corals(most SPS) all the while you are learning how your tank is going to react to different conditions you are going to do one thing. kill a lot of coral.[/QB]
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">well you were very blunt so I will be also.. this was totaly uncalled for and ignorant.. you coment on some one while not having any idea what background they do have, or what capability they have.. I am not just talking about this post or myself now.. the rest of your post was just plain "crap" and I would apreaceate it if you no longer reply to any of my posts. If Titus had a ignore feature on here after today I would be using it.
I do not mind constructive critisim but what you give is in now way constructive. I just don't understand why you feel you have to poisen a thread with your attatude like this.. it wasn't about my tank or what I am going to do it was about me trying to find out what kinda of requirments different corals have in nature .. just out of curosity, but you start calling me a coral killer and that my plans are how did you put it "Sh!t or get off the pot". Maby I don't feel I need to go out and buy the lights tomorrow when the ones I have will work fine for while my tank is maturing enuf for SPS like you said "(ie a year)". so should I run out and buy thease lights that might or might not be the best ones to buy so they can sit unused for a year.. I thinknot.. I could spent the money on rock and buy 135lbs instead of 45 or 90. also that give me a year (probably more like 6 to 8 months) to do some more looking into different MH and HQI lights sence no one seam to know enuf about HQI at this point in time.
I seriously doubt that you will find anyone more paitent than my self when it comes to doing a fish tank and letting it mature. this comes from 27 years of keeping fish (didn't have any for 5 of them years) so actualy only 22 years of having 1 or more tanks set up.. both fresh and salt.
hmmm, Brad I would have to have a skimmer befor I can put water in my tank :D :D .. I know , I know.. another week. ;)
Steve