How do you light your 10 gallon?

[olwiggum]

Is there anyone else here that has a 10 gallon reef? How do you light it?
I've been using a 20 Watt 50/50 and a 10 Watt 50/50 and thought that I should change it up. I was told yesterday that should be fine.
I may go to 2 of the 20 Watt bulbs.

What do you guys use?

 

[Tomoko Schum]

It depends on what you want to keep, but 30 or 40 watts of light on 10 may be somewhat on the low side. I have two 65W PC's (one 50/50 and one actinic) over my 15 gallon tank. You can grow all sorts of things under this light.

Tomoko

 

[Nitroq2]

I have a 10g in storage now that I made a custom canopy for and put a 96w 50/50 bulb in it. Thats alot of light but I put it up kinda high and put 2 computer fans in the canopy to cool it. Not the best looking canopy but it got me started. Also out there with it is a AquaClear I converted to a small cheato and fuge area. I was happy with it just wanted more room.
Allen

 

[HAMsmith]

I ran a 10g reef tank in my office. I started with the standard freshwater hood using the cheapo PC screw in bulbs. That didn't look good to my eye and didn't work well even with low light coral so I upgraded to the 96w PC Coralife Aqualight Quad. That worked extremely well both for me and the corals.

 

[olwiggum]

This?

If I get this, will I have to put fans it?

 

[Nitroq2]

That one has built in fans I did the retro one that screws into a canopy

 

[olwiggum]

Cool. I just ordered it. Thanks, everybody!

 

[ssdalton]

Hey Corey - you can also get some legs for that light so it doesn't have to sit right on the frame of the tank.

 

[olwiggum]

Yeah, I saw some of those the other day. I'm gonna pick some up when the fixture gets here.

Damn holiday weekend! That's gonna put me back another day.