Anemone questions

[kaptken]

Jon, I wouldn go with that corallife pendant. it has had some problems and is not well suited for a rectangular, long tank. I would get one of these new set-ups from hellowlights. the ARO ballasts are their own custom manufactured brand, and they seem to work very well. efficient, cool running and nice light from what i have heard. havent heard anything bad about them. i know their ARO VHO ballast is just great. and this HQI set up will cost less with bulb. its hard to find replacement bulbs for the corallife pendant, most places stopped selling them. go for a nice universal system of high quality. the ARO system can run any 150-175 HQI bulb. the coral life can run ony theirs.
http://www.hellolights.com/15hlmhrekith.html
I need to get one of these soon for a frag tank.

 

[Gordonious]

I had looked at those for a little while. I had narrowed it down pretty far as to what I wanted to get, but honestly have forgotten what I was seriously looking at. When school started and my loan money did not come in I seriously was thinking I was going to have to drop out of school and sell all of my fish stuff. Any upgrades to my tanks in the next couple months will be things in the $5-10 range. :-(

Thanks for your comments though, I will return to this thread one day and upgrade my lighting. Just isn't in the cards at the moment.

Jon

 

[kaptken]

I often have the same problem,
my plans are bigger than my wallet. just not much sense in getting something not quite as good when the time comes. but, now you have some info for the future. no problem. you will just explore low light tank species. for a while. just as good. i have one ten gallon tank with just the 15 watt strip light on it. it grows stuff when i put them in there. right now its used to clean up some misc. rock. trying to get the macro algea off it.