Coralife Fixture Mods?

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by xtreme

How deep is your tank? Are you sure you need 400w? If you are running the stock coralife ballasts replacing those with "good" 250w ballasts will make a huge difference. I run 250w DE on a 30" deep SPS tank and my corals are looking pretty good.

It's 29" deep. So what is a good ballast? I know the Coralife are junk and was waiting for them to go on the fritz before a potential upgrade. I don't need 400w I'm on breakup and just bored. When I'm bored I usually like to spend money. Fixture's 3 years old so just getting prepared.