Are Hagen Marine-Glo lights any good?

TooCurious

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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?
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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