33 gallon reef

[uncwba00]

I am currently running 1 33 gallon reef with Marineland Reef LED Aquarium Lighting as my lighting source. Acans, mushrooms, torches, hammers and xenia and such in there just doing fine with that light.

I already have another setup with rock and everything setup well, I am wondering what would be the best lighting setup for corals with higher light requirements for this tank. Without having to run a chiller on it, as it is such a shallow tank, I don't want to burn up the water so fast.

 

[Hentz]

Are you running the same sized tank for the second?

 

[uncwba00]

Yep

 

[mcgyvr]

define "best" to you?

Could be a $99 Chinese black box up to multi-hundred dollar controllable lights..

 

[uncwba00]

I could see spending $200 on lighting, $250 if the $50 would make a huge difference

 

[mcgyvr]

And are you ok with just using a lamp timer or 2 to control when it comes on/off and a manual knob for dimming?
Or built timers/automatic dimming (sunrise/sunset)/wifi control,etc..

 

[uncwba00]

Well of course a unit with a built in timer would be easiest, but I have dealt with having to use multiple timers before back when using power compacts, I have not used manual knobs for dimming before though.

 

[uncwba00]

By the way, what part of NC are you in?

 

[mcgyvr]

By the way, what part of NC are you in?

North of Raleigh for now in Creedmoor..
Moving more towards Raleigh/RTP soon..

 

[uncwba00]

Right on, I almost bought a house in Rougemont, I work in RTP, live out in Zebulon