lighting and corals?

marie · #1 04-19-2006, 09:04 PM

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 · #2 04-19-2006, 09:17 PM

Impressive growth!

Do you think stuff is growing faster under the halides?

marie · #3 04-19-2006, 10:01 PM

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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 · #4 04-19-2006, 10:16 PM

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 · #5 04-20-2006, 04:58 AM

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.