Mirror

[Canadian]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>to see what I mean take a small piece of "shiny white flasshing, and a miror. go to a dark room and shine a focused been of light into the miror so it reflects onto the wall.. then do the same with the flashing.. the circle from the flashing will be a lot bigger than the one made by the miror, yes it will be less intense but it will give a larger area the same amount of even light. enuf said about that.
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Wheew....took a while but I finally made sense of that.

Ok Steve, now that you've admitted that the intensity would be diminished with a diffuse reflector, ask yourself this: "Is my goal to be able to keep mushrooms alive in every square inch of my tank, or is it to be able to have sufficient intensity to keep SPS alive and thriving?" Per unit area, a specular reflector will provide more available light.

Sorry, can't have a meeting to see my tank; I don't have one at the moment (I think you might have been one of the few people who didn't know this. I answered lots of questions about this at the last meeting at Victor's). I sold my tank to Darren in the summer so that I'd be able to focus on my edumucation and not have to choose between neglecting my tank and excelling at school (don't want to have to be a stoker). However, I'm sure you knew this before you suggested I have a meeting so you could see my tank. You were apparently trying to be a "smart ass" but it went right over my head, as I'm accustomed to your stupidity.

When the temp goes up to 25 degrees Celsius in the summer try blowing (un air-conditioned) air at your reflector to cool the water temp as opposed to using evaporative cooling...let me know which one works more efficiently for keeping the water temperature down.