more blue gorg, and more

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Here we go...comments from someone who has visited the tank!!

3000l tank
3.5 m x 0.8m x 0.6m dimension (I think it works out
to be 900 gallon ??) glass 15 cm thick

changed from HQI to T-5 in Aug 2001 (so, he has been
using T-5 for almost 2 1/2 year now)

T-5 used: 120 cm long each tube (4 feet)
32 x T-5 used all together each 54 w
4 banks
each bank with 3 x blue
4 x sun
1 x actinic

Advantages of T-5:
1)life span of 5 years as compared to 1/2 to 1 year on
HQI
2)much lower electirc cost to run
3)cool (yeah, I defitely could tell you that because I
was in his reef tank room for one afternoon)
4)no light frickling
5)coral colours are better (subjective ????)

One disadvantage of T-5...no frickling / rippling
shadow over the corals like those MH light. So, some
people find it boring.