What should I do for lights in my new tank??

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Lighting 16 square feet with T5s could be pretty expensive come bulb replacement time. I'd have some as supplemental but stick to mh for the core.

With that much surface area evaporation will be huge. How are you planning to deal with that (thread hijack not intended!)?

Not sure yet I will have a dehumidifier and air conditioner for the hotter months but I'll have an ato underneathe. The good thing about a tank this big is lots of room under the tank. I just finished the framing for the stand and I can almost walk around under there lol it's huge

seahorse fanatic I too love the shimmer. I was at a friends house the other day and ge has a new led light very cool fixture and has a nice shimmer but at 2000-3000 for a 24" , it wouldn't be cost effective for my build as u would need several lol

I'm thinking the fish need it pendants 250w and I'm not sure on the brand fir strip lights.

There's slot of kinks in this build that I'm trying to work out because of it's huge footprint I'm taking my and to Kelly from the reefshoppe on Monday to try to get some more solid ideas

IRS funny I have several mh/t5 combos and a dew diy mh's and diy t5's of which none can be used here lol I want nothing to touch the tank so ut will all have to be mounted to something and hung so I don't have 10 cables coming from my ceiling

thanks for some great input guys