Nova II Pendants enough light ????

[JackRent]

I am setting up an 84 x 36 x 30 reef and I would like to know if
4 x 250 Watt Nova II's hung 12 inches off the water, will be enough light with 4 x 39 watt T5 actinic supplimentation, given the 30 inch height ??? There will be a 4 inch sandbed but I do want clams on the sandbed and some other LPS. Much of the upper reef will be SPS. Please be honest as these are a significant investment but I think it may be worth it. Will these small pendants cover the front to back also (36 inch) ??

 

[RichConley]

You'd be MUCH better off going with Luminarcs or something along those lines. 3 250w Lumenarcs would do a better job than the 4 Nova IIs.

In Sanjays tests on reflectors, the Nova pendants did quite poorly.

 

[JackRent]

I did see that the PPFD (PAR) values were pretty low. I should maybe wait for the DE lumenarcs to come out in April.