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10-16-2010, 05:46 AM
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I would go with 4 pendants, each a bit more than a foot from the four corners. That would give you full coverage.
You could hang supplemental lighting down the middle, maybe even a T5 actinic light strip in front of each pair of pendants, angled slightly inwards.
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10-16-2010, 06:03 AM
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That's not a bad idea I never thought about off setting them slightly.
And I may have to go with the strip lights for supplement , atleast they are clean looking. What if I were to have someone make me like a giant metal washer would the circle shape help In My design??? Hummm just thinking randomly here lol 
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10-16-2010, 06:10 AM
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Actually, that's what I would do. Make a light weight, but strong, circular ring, about 3' or a little bit more in diameter. Attach the four pendants across from each other and the mount the light strip in an -|- pattern. Don't know if you'd need supplemental on the outside with this system. I would think its enough. Am I confusing you?
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10-16-2010, 06:29 AM
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Not at all I wasn't sure f I could word what I was thinking lol but that's it.. Basically a circle ring over my square tank with the 4 pendants and I can do striplights running across the gaps of the pendants . With a metal ring it would look clean and I would just hang the ring and mount the pendants and strips possibly some moonlights led's if the budget or room allows it
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10-16-2010, 06:41 AM
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On the other hand, with a 20" deep tank, you could go T5HO easily. Me, I love the shimmer of MH.
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10-16-2010, 07:34 AM
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Lighting 16 square feet with T5s could be pretty expensive come bulb replacement time. I'd have some as supplemental but stick to mh for the core.
With that much surface area evaporation will be huge. How are you planning to deal with that (thread hijack not intended!)?
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10-16-2010, 01:37 PM
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seahorse fanatic I too love the shimmer. I was at a friends house the other day and ge has a new led light very cool fixture and has a nice shimmer but at 2000-3000 for a 24" , it wouldn't be cost effective for my build as u would need several lol I'm thinking the fish need it pendants 250w and I'm not sure on the brand fir strip lights. There's slot of kinks in this build that I'm trying to work out because of it's huge footprint I'm taking my and to Kelly from the reefshoppe on Monday to try to get some more solid ideas IRS funny I have several mh/t5 combos and a dew diy mh's and diy t5's of which none can be used here lol I want nothing to touch the tank so ut will all have to be mounted to something and hung so I don't have 10 cables coming from my ceiling thanks for some great input guys
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