lighting and corals?

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Willow

brown zoos like lower light,

and that is a generalization also as my Brown Zoo's loved the MH.. I still contend any coral soft, LPS or SPS (aside from a select few) will do just as good if not better under more intense lighting if it is introduced properly.

Steve

[marie]

Here's a pic of my 75g before I put MH's on it. There are 4 110w vhos

[TheReefGeek]

Was there a noticeable difference when you did go to MH?

Great looking tank by the way, how long did that cap take to grow!

[marie]

Here's a pic taken 2 months after I put metal halides on the tank and approx 6 months after the last pic was taken

[TheReefGeek]

Impressive growth!

Do you think stuff is growing faster under the halides?

[marie]

Originally Posted by TheReefGeek

Impressive growth!

Do you think stuff is growing faster under the halides?

Yes, everything did grow faster but that's not necessarily a good thing . It meant my cal and alk consumption skyrocketed and I very rapidily ran out of room and had to do some major pruning. I was actually happier with the growth under vho's and the colour was good. The only thing I didn't like, was all the sps needing the top half of the aquarium.

[Doug]

Great looking corals, Marie.

I like the VHO look better. I still say when I moved some of my sps to my friends 120 w/660w of VHO, they improved. A greenish acro colony developed beautiful blue tips, as an example.

His were higher up also but I still wonder if they could have been lower down. Did you try any of yours lower?

[possitive k]

wow thanks for all the info, i will eventualy go to mh but right now funds are short and i want to get a good set up. thanks again for the info.
by the way nice tank marie.