skippy12094
New member
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I recently (well in jan) bought a new light. I bought the coralife advanced hqi metal halight for my reef tank. The light I got was 150watt with a 14k bulb. My tank is a 36 gallon bowfront about 30" long and about 21" high and about 15 1/2" wide to the widest part of the bow. My previous lighting was a simple conpact floresent light using a 65watt floresent and a 65watt 10k atinic bulb. I used that light for 2 years and really didn't have any problems. My soft corals grew fine but the coraline algie was kind of sparce. I bought one sea bae anemone and it died (probably due to low light.) When I bought this new light I figured I'd buy a new sea bae aneomne and some new corals. All the corals were new because a heater incident killed everything in my tank when it exploded on night when I was at work. But anyway I bought all new corals, anemone, and a whole new cleaning crew. My question is, is my 14K too much light for my tank. I ask this because since I have put this on my kenya leather doesn't really open up and hasen't been growing, my stari polyps are ok but not really doing anything, my cleaning crew like my scarlet crabs only come out when the lights are off at night, I have some other type of polyps that stay closed all the time. I don't think there dead one or two open some times but nothing is like it was when the 65 watt floresents were in there. Should I change the 14K to a 10K or dose anyone have some other ideas.
Thanks
Mark.
I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I recently (well in jan) bought a new light. I bought the coralife advanced hqi metal halight for my reef tank. The light I got was 150watt with a 14k bulb. My tank is a 36 gallon bowfront about 30" long and about 21" high and about 15 1/2" wide to the widest part of the bow. My previous lighting was a simple conpact floresent light using a 65watt floresent and a 65watt 10k atinic bulb. I used that light for 2 years and really didn't have any problems. My soft corals grew fine but the coraline algie was kind of sparce. I bought one sea bae anemone and it died (probably due to low light.) When I bought this new light I figured I'd buy a new sea bae aneomne and some new corals. All the corals were new because a heater incident killed everything in my tank when it exploded on night when I was at work. But anyway I bought all new corals, anemone, and a whole new cleaning crew. My question is, is my 14K too much light for my tank. I ask this because since I have put this on my kenya leather doesn't really open up and hasen't been growing, my stari polyps are ok but not really doing anything, my cleaning crew like my scarlet crabs only come out when the lights are off at night, I have some other type of polyps that stay closed all the time. I don't think there dead one or two open some times but nothing is like it was when the 65 watt floresents were in there. Should I change the 14K to a 10K or dose anyone have some other ideas.
Thanks
Mark.
