lighting question

[northerncal]

i have power compacts. they produce a total of 260 watts of light (half actinic and half white) for my 55 gallon aquarium. i currently have a thriving hammer coral, a sebae anemone, zoos, mushrooms, an orange tube coral, pumping xenia, bubble coral, an alveopora, a leather toadstool and a couple fish. i really really want some montipora digitadas. do i have enough light for them? also, what would it take for me to get some acroporas? do i have to go metal halide?

 

[mg426]

Halides would be the way to go. If you do try some SPS (might be ok might not) Put them right under the PCS

 

[Blown 346]

I agree with above, the coral you want needs alot of light and water flow.

 

[zachstone13]

ditto on the halides, if you do add one make sure to get fans, it will heat up your water much more than pcs will

 

[TKByrnes]

like zachstone13 said get fans i have 2 mon my tank now and im adding 2 more tonight. but my montipora is much happier under the halides. I had pc lighting and the monti was ok for about 1 month and then he started slowly turning white. I quickly got my halide. now he is happy again. I had 390 watts of pc on a 75 gal.

 

[northerncal]

ok. so sounds like i will need halides. would you reccomend getting a whole new light fixture? or just buying one halide and setting it up somehow DYI?