I kept zoas, anenomes, green star, leathers, and palys all under pc lighting and they did great. I also got my bulbs for around $20 (the 65w bulbs) each, so that's not the part of it I'm curious about. If he wanted to go to shrooms and what I listed above, and that was all, and didn't want to drop $400 on a t-5 fixture, I'd more than understand starting with PC to wet his feet in this hobby so to say. The thing that confused me was when he said he wanted to do it on a FOWLR tank...PC lighting on that would be totally unnecessary and a drain on his electric bill for no good reason.