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04-22-2009, 09:39 PM
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Good answer ^
And now from my own experience if you have a tank with low depth like say 18 inches a t5 54w fixture may grow sps however for a deeper depth it will keep stuff alive but not thrive! I had a 6 bulb tek over my 120g with 2 extra single t5's full sps tank and in 3 months went back to 2x250w hqi. While some sps did well with t5 at the 8in and up mark the rest coloured down, so IMO mh hqi with sps FTW!!!!!
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04-22-2009, 10:00 PM
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what bulbs were you running tang daddy? and you say you had 2 extra on there? so you really had 8 t5's with individual reflectors all in all and were not satisfied? what are the dimensions of your 120 if you please? you're comparable experience is precisely what I was hoping to hear
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04-22-2009, 10:39 PM
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Just putting this out there
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...threadid=51991 Anyway on a serious note, great response Myka, that about sums it up.
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04-22-2009, 10:54 PM
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I use both MH and T5.
I can honestly say I can keep the same SPS corals on the bottom of my 24 inch deep tank and the color is just as good. IMO dont worry so much on lighting there is much more that influence color in a tank than just lighting. You can drive yourself crazy there are many tanks on both sides of the debate that are impressive.
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04-22-2009, 11:01 PM
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canreef is dominated by people who believe that MH is the only way to go. IMO MH is good for growing but color is a whole different story. Still can NOT get the same colors that you can with T5's (edit) unless you run 22k MH but than your losing your growth
Its all up to you really, personally i prefer T5's and will never own MH.... but the temptation has been there to try them out Last edited by lorenz0; 04-22-2009 at 11:27 PM.
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