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11-22-2006, 07:50 PM
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It also depends on the depth of your tank, deeper you go the less light penetrates below. Also keep in mind that the useful par value in CF lights are pretty much used up within the first 6 months of the bulbs usage. While they might fire and even look bright they have the same effect as floresent office bulb in terms light your corals need to grow.
I think others have mentioned that metal halides are the most cost effect means of lighting most tanks, you should consider that before you get locking into a lifetime of buying CF bulbs and wishing you hadn't. 
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11-22-2006, 07:59 PM
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thanks to all that replied, I will just do a wait and see approach, I have a 30X12X21" tank with 25-30lbs live rock and been running since august. It was a FOWL tank but I decided to try some mushrooms Bought a Frogspawn and a Rocordia Yuma and an aqualight with 130W rating but that was the Daylight flourescent and the Actnic, so I had a T5 and put 2-Actnic in T5 and 2 65W daylight in the Aqualight fixture..hope this is sufficinet for mushrooms and softies. The tank is 21" deep but I have 2.5" substrate.
Jim
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11-23-2006, 04:23 PM
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I would recommend Metal Halide for ricordia. They just seem to do much much better in bright light. I would move the yuma as high up in the tank as possible and see how it does.
Otherwise your light setup should be fine for mushrooms and leathers.
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