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Old 04-10-2013, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by FishyFishy! View Post
I say scrap the LED's and throw some MH's on there !!!!!!!!!!!!!



haha, I would burn my house down, or at the very least cook my tank. The tank is built in to a wall, so the lights are inside the wall space above it, which is completely enclosed. Even with a 90cfm fan evacuating air in the space where the lights are and sending it outside 24/day, 8 radions is enough to heat the space above the tank up enough to warm the water in the tank 1.5 degrees C over the course of a day. If it was an open top tank, I probably would have gone with halides in the original design.