Are Hagen Marine-Glo lights any good?

[TooCurious]

Just wondering if the 48" T-10 Marine-GLo 40 watt bulbs are any good for a 47 gallon tank that is going to have fish, live rock and maybe later a few anemones and such? Don't have the tank up and running yet but am starting to buy the equipment. I want to buy 2 powerheads that rotate also (I think they're made by ZooMed?), has anyone had experience with these?

[BeelzeBob]

not an anemone. the require very high lighting and pristine lwater quality to surrvive.

with those lights you could keep like mushies and suncorals.

and for a reef, your gonna want at least 400gph of flow in your tank. more is better though 600-800gph range.

id get a new light fixture, some nice power heads, skimmer and rocks before anything else

[TooCurious]

So I have 2 Xenia frags coming for the tank after it gets going because of all of the live rock I got so far. Would this Marine-glo work for it? Then instead of anemones, get mushrooms and sun corals?

I have a diy counter current protein skimmer that I made for my ten gallon that has some of my live rock in it (making this tank a refugium) and I am going to build a bigger one for the bigger tank. :)

I have the basics down I am just feeling confounded by the lighting I guess.

[BeelzeBob]

yea, lights and rocks and skimmers are the real money suckers.

i mean with a 47 gal, you could drop like 100-150 bucks on some PC or T5s and keep softies, zoos, and some LPS

or you could go for like 300-400 bucks and get metal halides and keep anything you want.

but with the normal phlorescents you wount be able to keep much at all