Nano lighting

[hillbillyreefer]

If your going to run it through a 100 gal system, just hang a 70 or 150w MH over it. I've got a 150 w sunpod over my 24 gal, pretty happy with it. I couldn't decide between that and a Viper, the wife decided the sunpod looked better. The only thing I don't like is the heat it produces, it raises the tank temp about 2 C. Not bad in the winter, but a bit hot in the summer.

With the popularity of nano tanks I can't believe current is the only supplier of 18" bulbs. There has to more coming down the pipe but atm they have a bit of a monopoly.

[dabandit]

do you suplement with actinic?

[Snaz]

Since you are adding this to 100 gallon system the following will not matter to you but I wanted to add some thoughts on lighting nanos.

When lighting a small volume of water with bright lights like MH you get two big issues that have to be dealt with. Firstly cooling, if your putting 70W or 150W MH onto anything smaller than 20 gallons you will have to use some cooling method either a nano chiller (nanocustoms.com) or some extra fans across the water surface.

Secondly, is evaporation. It is not uncommon for 10 gallon tanks under MH to topped off with fresh TWICE A DAY so usually an ATO is used but this has risk

MANY people put MH on their nano successfully but it is extra expense and risk. See nano-reef.com on how to do it right.

Keith

[Nebthet]

Go to Home Depot. Buy a 24" Double ballast shop light to fit t5 lighting.
Buy 1 t5 Atcinic light and 1 10,000 - 14,000k t5 light and ensure the CRI rating is above 90. The closer to 100 (rating of sunlight) the better. This is all you should need.

This should cost you no more than $75 Canadian.