lighting

[fishmanpuffer]

I would light to know what everyone is running for lights. I am thinking about getting a light for my 125. The light I am looking at has 3-175mh and 2-130 cf and 12 lunar lights.Do you think this is a good light for my tank it will have mostly soft coral some lps and some sps in it.

 

[Barky]

sounds like a nice fixture. are the MH. single or double end? I have 2 250w singles with 2 VHO's on a75gl. over mostly LPS and they are doing great.
on my 90gl. 2 250MH DBL ended with 4 lunar lights over SPS, I found this is best combo for an SPS tank,
12 lunar lights seem a little much they do light a tank nicely after lights out. hope this helped some. Brain

 

[fishmanpuffer]

Barky it is a dbl ended light with 20K mh bulbs and the 130 are 03 actinic and the lunar are built in

 

[Barky]

That will be alot of blue lighting on your tank, 20k are a real blue bulbs. you might consider 10k with the 03 actinics, are the actinics VHO? my DBL ends are 14k pheonex and I really like the look. you could put on a timer your actinics to come on first in the A.M. then turn off when MH come on and then actinics come on just before your MH go off for a dusk to dawn affect. Brian