250w Mh
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Screw in type, 14000k
250w is moer baie for a tank of that depth, if you want to keep sps's they will work lekker.
keep the mh about 30cm above the water,but it depends on want you want to keep
Jacques, Thanks for the PM.
In terms of lighting and tanks specs, what corals can I keep. Lanzo has mentioned it will be great for SPS which require alot of light. I was aiming at keeping one or two hammer corals with some SPS. The tank holds 214 litres approx. So the MH outways the one watt per litre concept. Help, need stocking advice????????
In terms of lighting and tanks specs, what corals can I keep. Lanzo has mentioned it will be great for SPS which require alot of light. I was aiming at keeping one or two hammer corals with some SPS. The tank holds 214 litres approx. So the MH outways the one watt per litre concept. Help, need stocking advice????????
Keyaam - just an example:
Puppy (David) has 3 x 400 watt metal halides over his 1.5 metre tank. His tank is (I think) 800mm deep..... ALSO - he has 8 x Geissemann 54watt T5's as well.
So, NO - it is not OVERKILL.
Only thing that you have to watch out for, is your water temperature, with a 250 watt metal halide, it might just sky-rocket.
And: AS Viper has already said as well - you should be able to ANY coral under those lights. You might perhaps just find that LPS might not extend as much, due to the HUGE amount of light.
To keep SPS, you will just HAVE to make sure that you overskim by at least a factor of 2 to 3 times the water volume (meaning, that your skimmer should at least be truly rated for at least 2 or 3 times your total water volume of your tank and sump together)....
Good luck mate!
Puppy (David) has 3 x 400 watt metal halides over his 1.5 metre tank. His tank is (I think) 800mm deep..... ALSO - he has 8 x Geissemann 54watt T5's as well.
So, NO - it is not OVERKILL.
Only thing that you have to watch out for, is your water temperature, with a 250 watt metal halide, it might just sky-rocket.
And: AS Viper has already said as well - you should be able to ANY coral under those lights. You might perhaps just find that LPS might not extend as much, due to the HUGE amount of light.
To keep SPS, you will just HAVE to make sure that you overskim by at least a factor of 2 to 3 times the water volume (meaning, that your skimmer should at least be truly rated for at least 2 or 3 times your total water volume of your tank and sump together)....
Good luck mate!
Thanks Jacques, The skimmer i have is rated for a 1200L tank. So its rated approx 6 times more than my tank volume. Any other advice?
Jacques, its a red sea prizm pro skimmer HOB. When my tank is ready I will start a new thread dedicated to the full tank. The first lesson that I learnt was patience. Tank is running for its sixth week. Got all the equipment I need for now.
Keyaam - that is a good skimmer (I have/had one) - the only problem I had with it, was that the impeller kept on breaking - the impellers are what Red Sea calls: "turbo impellers".... (with something like 14 blades)....
BUT - you should get good milage out of that skimmer, until you need to upgrade to a ReefTek/ReefOctopus/Deltec or something similar... ;-)
BUT - you should get good milage out of that skimmer, until you need to upgrade to a ReefTek/ReefOctopus/Deltec or something similar... ;-)
18 blades:yeahdude:
yip go for lps and sps, sps higher up and the lps lower down.
sps like high flow and lps like medium flow, so put your (3-4 high rated)powerheads blowing around the top level of the tank were the sps are and the medium to low flow will be middle a bottom part.(plus this will give your reef a fuller look from bottum up)
sps like high flow and lps like medium flow, so put your (3-4 high rated)powerheads blowing around the top level of the tank were the sps are and the medium to low flow will be middle a bottom part.(plus this will give your reef a fuller look from bottum up)
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