A question on lighting

Hello!

I'm just starting out a saltwater tank. For the future, I plan on beefing my whole setup up, but right now it's just lots of water circulation, heat, salt, LR and LS.

Anyway, the tank has a single 36" 30 watt 'Aquaglow' light in it, that's at least 5 years old.

The ballast says it will do up to 40w, although the box on the power cord gets pretty warm with the 30 on.

Anyway, I figure in the future I'll learn a lot more about lighting and probably go with something that will allow me to do coral and the like.

For now, I'd like to know if there's a choicier bulb that I could stick in my setup for the live rock (and 3 or 4 pieces of previously live rock that's mixed in).

Any info would be super.

THANKS!

damon
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Thanks for the reply!

Like I said, though, I'm going to be upgrading the lighting in the future, but was wondering if there's anything better for the short run.

But, if the tank doesn't need any better lighting to cycle, I'll just leave it alone for now!

Thanks, guys. I was just wondering if i'd profit from a different bulb in the meantime. Sounds like I should just shut up and wait a few weeks and see how it goes.