Hog Head

Can they be used with any brand reflector, like sunlight supply, or just PFO?

I am interested.

And a few more.

great looking tank

Thanks. So far it has been far easier than I expected. The hardest part is just being patient.

Here's more.

not seeing pics bro and I would love to

Finally got one to take.

Here are some pics of my 29g newby tank.

Which is better, single or double ended?

Thanks to all for the warm welcome.

there is a guy on here selling 3 pfo 175 watt mh ballasts for 100$ and another guy selling 2 DIY parabolic reflectors best offer could get the third one cheep as well' date=' then buy the bulbs. would save some green for other things.[/quote']

 

I think that I saw they were sold.

I would go with the Maristar fixture from Sunlight and use Galaxy 250 watt ballasts with Phoenix 14 k bulbs. It would actually be cheaper that the Marineland fixture

I thought about that one, but 750 watts on a 18" deep tank? Would my mushrooms and other softies survive that much light?

Welcome new"TOAD"What is it you want to keep in this setup??

Everything from all the softies I have to the LPS/SPS I don't have.

How much for the tank and stand?

there is a guy on here selling 3 pfo 175 watt mh ballasts for 100$ and another guy selling 2 DIY parabolic reflectors best offer could get the third one cheep as well' date=' then buy the bulbs. would save some green for other things.[/quote']

 

That would be cool. Then I would just need to figure out something for actinic.

Are you wanting to stay with MH? Have you looked at full T5 lighting?

 

I have T5 on my 6' tank, Nova Extreme Pro. The thing with T5 is the refectorsand the bulbs that come with the Nova arent very good and need to be replaced in 6 months to better ones.

I would if I could get it in a 16 bulb fixture. The 12 bulb units would only be 468 watts if they were all white bulbs. Put 2 actinics and you only have 390 watts. I had thought about 2 36" Tek-lights but unlike the 48" units they are only 6 bulbs each, so it would be the same situation as the Nova Extreme.

Hello,

I just posted my first post but thought I would post a "Hello from a newby" post also. I have been doing FW for almost 30 years and I have wanted to try SW for as long as I can remember. I have had the 29 gal setup below going for almost a year now and I am looking forward to stepping up to a 100 gallon tank soon.

I look forward to the time I will be spending on this site and all of you that I will be meeting along the way.

Gene

First off this is my first post here and I would like to say that this has been an excellent site so far. I have been into FW tanks since I was a kid and decided it was time to try saltwater.

I recently bought a 100 gal. tank 72x18x18 All-Glass off of craigs list to replace my 29 gal reef I have had running for about a year now. I know that there are several options for lighting, but not so many MH/T5HO combo units out there. The units I am considering are: Marineland's 72" 3x150 14K MH/8x39w T5HO or AquaticLife's 3x150w 10K HID/4x39w T5HO. I have never had a tank of this size and I am unsure of which lighting would be the best.

http://www.marineland.com/sites/Marineland/products/productdetail.aspx?id=2054&cid=3617&mid=3228

http://www.aquaticlife.com/hid/index.html

Bulbs for the HID fixture come in 10k, 14k and 20k.

I also thought about using Sunlight Supply's products and make my own but the cost would actually would be more.

Thaks in advance for any help, Gene