Best lighting for a 180 gallon zoa garden?

[Salty Cracker]

In four months I'm moving into my new house and already have 180 tank and a the equipment needed other than the lights. The new tank will be 80 percent zoa/palys. Right now I have a 50 gallon breeder with T5's and seems to do good on my zoa frags and colonys. Are T5's best, or should I look into l.e.d's or metal haildes?

 

[Tysob44]

LEDs how long is tank

 

[Tysob44]

I use the Chinese **** boxes on my tank and my ZOA's love it... If u go that route its a unitnper 2 per 2 feet of tank

 

[Salty Cracker]

Any link for those leds

 

[Tysob44]

http://m.ebay.com/itm/like/25149577...17182-37290-0&rvr_id=842390840089&_mwBanner=1

Just one kind of them

 

[that Fish Guy]

You want Huge Polyps and the Best Color then Metal Halide.

 

[dcmatranga]

I'm a HUGE fan of my radion pros.

 

[glweek]

+1 to mh

 

[Salty Cracker]

Any suggestions on metal haildes? I spoke with a few of the vendors I order frags of Zoa's from use them as well.

 

[scottneeld88]

I like the look of Raidion 20k haildes when it comes to zoe's and soft tanks.

 

[cloak]

I really like the look of the Radium bulbs as well. I'm not exactly sure what the dimensions of a 180 gallon tank are, but 2 x 250 watt Radium bulbs is definitely something worth looking into.

 

[that Fish Guy]

A lot of People swear by Radium 20K's

 

[c.rob]

Been using Phoenix 14ks for years in Cayman sun pendants. Couldn't get any bulbs latley so I tried the Chianese LEDs while I decide what to do. The Zoas look great and you can dial in how much blue you want. Only been on for a month but great so far.

 

[Tweaked]

A lot of People swear by Radium 20K's

This^^, and at first was concerned LEDs were getting the vote for best grower lol. Here is my wife's running a radium supplemented with reefbrites.

 

[ct_vol]

VHO's were my favorite zoa specific light. But I don't have any tanks with just Zoanthids anymore, so I go MH.