fishman231976
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any one know if 178watt metal halide would be to much light? if so what size do i need:biker
Ballasts are another issue. Cheap ballasts are more expensive in the long term. They tend to use more electricity to light the bulb, and so cost more to run, and I have seen them shift colors of the lamps over time as their output wavers.
Clownfish,
Good point about ballasts. Would you go into some detail as to what to look for in a good ballast? Thanks.
Quite a bit of nuances on the subject, maybe should try and do something comprehensive. Maybe talk about Fluorescent ballasts, and overdriving, and MH ballasts - pulse, probe, eye, hqi, electronic, magnetic, and overdriving (yes, you can overdrive MH too). What do you think?
I understand what your saying about MH, But rap your mind around this.... I have a 55 gallon few softy's and polyps. One huge green carpet and candy cane. I have two 250 watt MH that sit about 18'' off the top of my aquarium. My aquarium is 4 foot long and 18'' deep. I also have two atinics as well. I am so so at this hobby. I've been doing it for about a year now. I figured if i can keep a carpet i must be doing something right. What would you recommend for my situation? I've lost the most easiest corals to keep. For example. Star polyps. dead. A huge rock of green polyps....Dead. Stupid little things that are easy to keep. My candy cane is almost dead as well. A friend told me it might be my lighting because nothing is growing. Oh montapora i don't even try anymore. I lost about 300 bucks of that.... I don't understand. i test everyday and never have a problem. Oh one other reason why My buddy thinks its my lights. whens the last time you've heard of a tank chucked full of beautiful live rock covered in coraline bleach. Yup.... every peace of coraline bleached white and looks really bad. Not really sure what happened there but its not the heat the MH give off. I have that under control. Well theres my tank in a nut shell i really hope you can give me some advice. Thanks Jason