need tips on marine life.

yeah i know they dont need 300 watts, thats why a 150 watt MH light would work, you dont need a 250 watt.
 
Germanman said:
yes they are more expensive but are better and pose no threat to corals or fish other than iff u dont get enough air circulation. what he is saying is pretty on the ball. ur LFS needs to read up if u ask me.
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i think my lfs is convinced that the germans know best!

i dont think he needs to read up, i think he is just gullable, when it comes to what ever the germans say.

i use to have the same problem
i get lots of advice and every body tells me diffrent, thats why i came on this forum, because im at least being told info infront of lost of diffrent people, and if say 5 people are sayin the same think, then thats what il go with.

clare
 
clare bear said:
i think my lfs is convinced that the germans know best!

i dont think he needs to read up, i think he is just gullable, when it comes to what ever the germans say.

i use to have the same problem
i get lots of advice and every body tells me diffrent, thats why i came on this forum, because im at least being told info infront of lost of diffrent people, and if say 5 people are sayin the same think, then thats what il go with.

clare
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Germans?
 
musho3210 said:
200 watts of MH/PC/T5 light is the absolute minimum for the corals you have, with 200 watts you can pretty much only get softies like mushrooms and leathers
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i also said this :)

musho3210 said:
Metal halide isnt like those tubes, its like an oversized incandescent lamp. moving some things around and you could fit one 150 or 250, maybe put it in the back and have the high light corals in the back and the low light corals in the front, would look nice
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as well as that

I was basing the 300 watts on 6 wpg of MH light, good for softies and most lps, i also said aiming for not must have. Of course if you dont want lps or cant afford 300 watts, 200 would do but it would cut down on coral choice. There is no such thing as too much light under 10 wpg of MH light (anything more than 10 wpg of MH light is a waste in my opinion, it may also bleach some corals) so whats wrong with 6 wpg of mh/t5 light, just stated my reasons, dont need to think im grumpy or harsh everyone :)
 
Subliminal said:
Just my opinion:

You don't 'need' 300 watts for a 50 gallon tank. I have a 218 watt t5 setup on my 55 and over the last few weeks have accumulated about 10 frags, all different stuff. At least 3 of them have shown growth already, and the rest just look every bit as good as when I got them.

Would 300 watts work for your setup? I'm sure it would. Would a little less?

In my opinion: Defitely.

As an aside, the only problem with any of the corals I've had was with a xenia. It was the only one that died, and it did so within a day of getting into my tank. the zoas, star polyps, acros, frogspawns, and whatever the heck the other ones are are just fine.

Maybe those xenia are a little more sensitive than people say, or maybe just a coincidence.
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ye, my pink xenia defently dieing, its starting to mult.
do you think i should get it out of there or leave it to make sure its not going to recover.

my other bright green xenia is doing just fine, he looks well.
so far so good.

clare
 
if you are a long way from upgrading the lighting system, you can ask your lfs to take care of your xenias until you get the light.
 
200 watts of MH/PC/T5 light is the absolute minimum for the corals you have, with 200 watts you can pretty much only get softies like mushrooms and leathers
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that is incorrect, you can keep a lot more than soft corals like leathers, shrooms under 200w of MH lighting. If you look through the member tank specs in the forum, they will hold testament this..

Niko
 
atnixon said:
that is incorrect, you can keep a lot more than soft corals like leathers, shrooms under 200w of MH lighting. If you look through the member tank specs in the forum, they will hold testament this..

Niko
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yea i have a 175 and it is more than enough for all my hard corals and clams. i only have 255watts over my tank and its flourishing.
 
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